Trainee Positions At Nepean Hospital
Nepean Hospital
1 Derby Street
Kingswood
NSW, 2747
Australia
Contact Details
Dr Manori Wijayath
Manori.Wijayath@health.nsw.gov.au
Phone : 02 4734 1812
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Positions
Training Positions : Two
Elective Training Positions : None
Fellowships :
Core Position Descriptions
The core trainees would complete 3 monthly rotations between the inpatient and outpatient services. The inpatient service involves attending to inpatients, attend to referrals from the emergency department, stroke codes and supervising the basic physician trainee led teams. The outpatient service includes attending the outpatient clinics as detailed below and in patient consults. By this way, the trainees would complete a total of 6 months in, inpatient and outpatient care.
The period of core training is also utilized to gain experience as being the first – on call – person for neurological admissions which is considered quite advantageous, when stepping up as a career neurologist in the future. The trainees would hence be trained to be first on call in a few selected weekends under the supervision of the on – call neurologist. This will be paid as per the standard NSW health roster guidelines.
Elective Position Descriptions
Hospital Information
Nepean hospital is the tertiary care hospital for NBMLHD with over 550 beds. The neurology department not only cater to the Nepean hospital but to the other hospitals within the LHD; Blue Mountain District Hospital, Lithgow hospital and Hawkesbury District Hospital, by telephone consultations via a central HUB service, if required. The hospital services a large metropolitan region, understandably providing the trainees with vast experience in many neurological subspecialties. The neurology service, on an average would treat around 25 inpatients on any day. The neurology ward has a separate stroke unit with necessary facilities. As well as providing consultation services to the other specialties, we closely work with ICU via the telemetry EEG service to critically unwell patients, if indicated. We are also well supported with rehabilitation services provided by both departments of rehabilitation and geriatric rehabilitation.
The hospital is the teaching hospital for the Nepean Clinical School of University of Sydney.
Department Beds :
general Neurology beds and eight Stroke Unit beds (six with cardiac monitoring).
Department Clinics
The department provides a few consultation and procedural clinics on a weekly or daily basis; Epilepsy Clinic- weekly Rapid Access Neurology clinic – weekly Multiple Sclerosis and Neuo-Immunology clinic – weekly General Neurology clinic – weekly Neuro cognition and Parkinson’s disease clinic - weekly Movement Disorder Clinic - weekly EEG/ EEG telemetry/ AEEG clinics – daily NCS/ EMG clinic – twice / week Tremor/ Botox for movement disorder clinic - monthly
Department Specialty Clinics
Epilepsy, Stroke, Cognition, Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology, Movement Disorders
Department Meetings
Ward Electronic Journey Board – participated by the inpatient AT, members of all teams, NUM, Allied health Staff, CNC neurology and chaired by a designated consultant – daily
Weekly Clinical Neuroscience Meeting (presented by the Advanced Trainee) - we share a few meetings / year, with neurosurgical unit
Weekly Neuroradiology Meeting
Weekly Hospital Grand Rounds
Three monthly M&M meetings
Three monthly journal Club - presented by the Advanced Trainees
Department Teaching: On site dedicated teaching hours - EEG/ Epilepsy/ Neurophysiology. As we have close relationship with Westmead hospital, the trainees are allowed to join EEG and epilepsy training conducted by the Epilepsy unit at Westmead Hospital, virtually on a weekly basis.
Department Staff
Dr Manori Wijayath- HOD and Staff Specialist - Epilepsy
Dr Jerome Ip - Staff Specialist -Cognition & Parkinson’s Disease
Dr Salman Khan - Staff Specialist – Stroke
Dr Ashish Malkan - Staff Specialist - Neurophysiology
Dr Sameen Haque - Staff Specialist - Neuromuscular & Neurogenetics
Dr Jessica Qiu – Staff specialist – Movement disorders
Dr Mohammad Amin – Staff Specialist – Multiple Sclerosis & Neuro - immunology
Dr Hyun-Min Park - VMO - Neurophysiology & Multiple Sclerosis
Dr Andrew Duggins - VMO - Stroke & Behavioural neurology
Junior Staff Positions In Neurology
There are two inpatient neurology teams. Each team has one medical registrar (Basic Physician Trainee) and one Intern/RMO.
Trainee Responsibilities
See Description of Core Position above
Selection Criteria
Part 1 & 2 FRACP. Selection through the ANZAN statewide application process. Hospital specific requirements available at NBMLHD website
Philosophy Of Training
To provide a broad spectrum of exposure to neurology in a department with a variety of subspecialty interests. Training at Nepean Hospital provides exposure to various neurological procedures to improve skills. We encourage research and a dedicated neurologist would be supervising the projects. Further, as we have now accepted participation in clinical trials, it would be a valuable opportunity to receive such experience, as clinical trials are a much-needed requirement in practicing neurology due to its complexities.
Neurology Training In State
Monthly Brain School
Other Information
Any interested trainee should arrange to visit the department to meet Dr Manori Wijayath and current advanced trainees as well as previous Advanced Trainees. The information for the latter would be provided upon request.