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General Practitioner / Anaethesia - Mount Isa

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Position information

What the hospital will offer a GP candidate is a 0.25 FTE position in anaesthetics.

This would involve working every 4th week in anaesthetics according to our 28 day theatre schedule.

The week would start either Friday afternoon at 4pm or Saturday 8am and finish at 08:00 Saturday or Sunday morning (depending on the on call roster). So a total of 8 days.

Routine work:

Weekdays are 4 x 10 hour days with a Rostered Day Off on a weekday - eg. 07:30 to 6pm with 30 mins for lunch.

Lists include general surgery, scopes, obstetrics and gynae, paed dental (depending on Scope of Practise [SoP]), orthopaedics and also have a Pre Admission Clinic. They provide epidural services to delivery suite and an Acute Pain Service. JCCAs will be exposed to all of those lists and clinic as SoP allows.

They have a JCCA trainee and most weeks a JMO - the whole department is involved in their teaching and supervision. Once the registrar is experienced enough to be on call, their on call is always supervised by a FANZCA.

They do have some responsibilities to ICU - an anaesthetist is required to stay on site if there is a ventilated of very unstable patient in ICU - so that is usually the first on call anaesthetist and the second on would then do any theatre cases.

On call:

There will be 2 weeknights on call as well as on call the weekend before (and perhaps the Saturday after the day shifts depending on the on call roster). Weekend on call is a first on call 8am Saturday to 8am Sunday and second on call (usually quiet) Sunday 8am to Monday 8am, or vice versa.

On call is a paid duty and additionally any recall is paid per unit time with 270% loading.

Only roster on calls before an anaesthetic day or that last Sunday, so that the fatigue risk in case of an overnight call back , is met by my department and not the practise. As a guide probably one third to half of weekdays on call involve staying after 6pm to do cases. Weekends are highly variable and may involve no cases or 12 hours of work.

After 10 pm we are life or limb threatening surgery only. Obstetrics is the most common is this time slot. As a guestimate, maybe there is one night a week where we are in theatre overnight, and an overnight epidural would average less than one per week. ICU one night a month.

The on call roster is promulgated for 4 weeks and usually issued a week in advance of the start date.

Once issued any swaps are the responsibility of the person wanting the swap to organise, then notify me to update the roster.

Their on call criteria is that you will attend the hospital within 10 minutes of being called in. This attracts a higher on call $ rate because of the time factor, and is the same whether you are on call or second on call.

Practice Details

This modern, solo practice has been operational for over 10 years and is AGPAL accredited. Up to three doctors have worked in the practice at any one time in addition to the practice principal. An Orthopaedic surgeon visits the practice regularly from Brisbane.

The patient demographic is predominately mixed, it is a broad general practice and does limited WorkCover.

There is a local regional hospital with a wide range of local specialists and referral to provincial servers in some cases.

Town information

Mount Isa is a city located west of the great dividing range in North West Queensland. Located 880 kilometers inland from Townsville it is quite literally an oasis in the outback.

It is the heart of the great north-west with most modern amenities - Kmart Plaza, Woolworth's coffee club and the like. There are a range of outdoor activities and full size 50 m Aquatics Centre.

The people are its strength with many young and not so young families pushing west to take advantage of the financial opportunities offered in a Mining Town.

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