Kickstart your career in medicine at MQ Health

Exciting opportunities for recently graduated doctors and doctors seeking specialty and sub-specialty training, including interns, registrars and fellows.

Doctors-in-training are a part of MQ Health’s unique integrated ecosystem of students, researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, junior doctors, general practitioners and specialists working together towards improving health outcomes for patients and the community, in a research-intensive academic environment.

Through our Doctors in Training program, we help address the national shortage of postgraduate clinical training places in Australia, by unlocking the private healthcare system and creating additional training opportunities.

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Program location

The program is predominantly based at Macquarie University Hospital and the MQ Health Clinics with some rotations to our partner hospitals.

Our program scope

  • Exposure to general and specialised clinical care in both the inpatient and outpatient settings and a more personalised clinical training experience.
  • Access to medical education and research – all under the expert supervision of our clinicians.

Information for prospective doctors-in-training

MQ Health is accredited to provide the following training:

  • Health Education and Training Institute for pre-vocational medical education and training.
  • College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM):
    • Foundation training (for prospective applicants to CICM).
    • Neuro and Cardio rotations (part of core CICM training).
  • Royal Australasian College of General Practice for GP training.
  • Royal Australian College of Physicians for Cardiology training (in partnership with Nepean).
  • Royal Australian College of Physicians for Endocrinology training.
  • Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for one Neurosurgical SET trainee.

Opportunities

MQ Health offers the following positions to doctors-in-training.

  • Six intern positions available per annum on a two-year contract. Intern terms in Cardiology, General Surgery, Oncology, Gastro/Respiratory, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, General Practice and Emergency Medicine (at Coffs Harbour Hospital). In addition to the above, Resident terms are available in ENT / Ophthalmology / Cardiothoracic / Vascular, ICU / Anaesthetics / Pain Management.
  • Critical Care Senior Resident Medical Officer (SRMO).
  • GP Registrar (accredited)
  • Cardiology Advanced Trainee (accredited) in partnership with Nepean Hospital
  • Cardiology Registrar (part-time, unaccredited)
  • Endocrinology Advanced Trainee (accredited)
  • Orthopaedic Registrar
  • Surgical Registrar
  • ENT Registrar
  • Neurosurgical SET Trainee (accredited)
  • Two Neurosurgical Registrars (unaccredited)
  • Respiratory (Interventional Pulmonology) Fellow
  • Neurology (Neurodegenerative Disease) Fellow
  • Orthopaedic Surgery (Limb Reconstruction) Fellow
  • Neurosurgical (Cerebrovascular) Fellow
  • Neurosurgical (Neuro-oncology) Fellow
  • Urology Fellow
  • Medical Oncology Fellow
  • Gastroenterology Fellow
  • Interventional Neuroradiology (INR) Fellow
Dr Jisha Kunju, smiling, wearing a brown headscarf.

Dr Jisha Kunju, doctor in training

Most public hospitals reserve places for domestic students. So she was delighted when MQ Health accepted her into the Doctors in Training program. “What really attracted me was that it was very strongly based around teaching and research, which I di...

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