Vitreoretinal Fellow (Ophthalmology)

Metro South Health Service; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly environment

Renowned teaching & research

Long-term career opportunities

Salary packaging and development/leave

Job summary

The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane is inviting applications for a VR Fellow in ophthalmology to develop academic and clinical expertise in vitreoretinal surgery. The role provides supervised clinical care and hands-on surgical exposure aiming to meet specialist college and medical board requirements.

Fellows engage in teaching, scholarly activity, and administrative support for vitreo-retinal and outpatient services while building a pathway toward subspecialty training in retina.

Qualifications

• Gains exposure to surgical retina and subspecialty training.
• Develops comprehensive clinical skills under supervision.
• Exposure to academic and clinical career path.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive clinical care under supervision.
• Gain surgical experience with vitreoretinal procedures.
• Assist with organization of vitreo-retinal and outpatient lists.

Skills

Surgical retina

Clinical care

Teaching/education

Education

Ophthalmology training

Job description

This fellowship is offered to prepare suitable candidates for an academic/clinical career in ophthalmology. This includes appropriate clinical and surgical skill acquisition in order to be competent as a vitreo-retinal specialist The VR Fellow will provide comprehensive clinical care under supervision and acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to satisfy relevant specialist college and medical board requirements in order to practice as a specialist. The candidate will be exposed to a wide variety of pathology. The Fellow will be exposed to and perform the surgery expected for the armamentarium of a vitreoretinal specialist.

About you:

Your new role:

This fellowship is offered to prepare suitable candidates for an academic/clinical career in ophthalmology. This includes appropriate clinical and surgical skill acquisition in order to be competent as a vitreo-retinal specialist The VR Fellow will provide comprehensive clinical care under supervision and acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to satisfy relevant specialist college and medical board requirements in order to practice as a specialist. The candidate will be exposed to a wide variety of pathology. The Fellow will be exposed to and perform the surgery expected for the armamentarium of a vitreoretinal specialist.

About you:

Fellowship Objectives

• To gain exposure to surgical retina and prepare a candidate for a career with subspecialty training in vitero-retinal diseases.
• To enhance registrar and undergraduate medical student teaching and provide surgical supervision for registrars where appropriate.
• To provide administrative support as required in regard to organization of the vitreo-retinal and outpatient lists

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.