The opportunity

Emergency medicine registrars and PHOs. Come and join us working in an energetic, social and dynamic emergency multidisciplinary team, with exposure to all facets of emergency medicine, including tropical medicine and indigenous health specific to North Queensland. Townsville University Hospital Emergency Department (ED) is the only tertiary ED in the northern half of Queensland, accredited for 24 months ACEM training.  We have fulltime and fractional positions available, 6-to-24-month contracts and flexible rosters factoring in your training and individual needs.

We provide care for >100000 patient presentations per year, seeing the full range of ED patients – medical, surgical, trauma, obstetric, toxicology and toxinology, paediatrics to geriatrics. 

We have 50 FACEMs and PEMs (fulltime and fractional) in our ED with a variety of interests and special skills including, trauma, retrieval medicine, clinical coordination, ultrasound, education and simulation training, research, paediatrics, geriatrics, hyperbaric and dive medicine, defence medicine, international emergency medicine, medical law, mentoring, workforce wellbeing, gender diversity, leadership, and management. 

We are keen to support and mentor you in your ED training.

We offer accredited training positions for ACEM trainees, ACCRM and RACGP trainees completing ED advanced skill training (ED AST) and support completion of the Associateship in Emergency Medicine (Foundational, Intermediate or Advanced) programs (previously EM certificate and diploma). External rotations/special skills posts available to our trainees include 6month ICU, PICU, anaesthetics and ultrasound terms, with options for medical administration/education, hyperbaric medicine, rural health, and general medicine. 

We have 3 DEMTs for 40 trainees, a fortnightly 8-hour day teaching program delivered by our SMOs, covering the ACEM syllabus across the duration of the year with guest presenters from inpatient services and regular multidisciplinary simulation training.  Trainees sitting primary and fellowship examinations are supported with exam focussed education programs.

Our DEMTs can be contacted via email for further information about training positions. [email protected]  

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ACCRM/FRACGP trainees, or those considering these pathways benefit by:

·           Gaining emergency experience and skills in a well-supported environment with supervisors who encourage and support continued growth and development in this field.

·           Being encouraged to be part of the resuscitation team in roles of airway, assessment/procedural doctor and continuing to have access to senior support throughout.

·           Developing skills in adult and paediatric procedural sedations for various procedures.

·           Learning other skills including bier’s blocks and other regional blocks important for rural medicine.

·           Having a dedicated supervisor willing to support you through you ED AST training.

·           Accessing up to 8 hours of teaching per fortnight, a pro-rata amount during paid hours as for ACEM trainees.

·           Working in a tertiary level ED to gain an understanding of patient end points once retrieved from rural to tertiary centres.

·           With a dedicated paediatric emergency area and rostered shifts, having the ability to see large volumes of paediatric emergencies with PEM oversight, to refine skills that will be essential for a rural generalist working in a small rural hospital.

We also offer positions for RMOs/SHOs, and fractional appointments for GPs interested in acute primary care, all remunerated as per MOCA7.