Basic Physician Trainee

The Liverpool BPT Network consists of 4 training sites including Liverpool, Fairfield, Tweed and Kempsey Hospitals. Liverpool Hospital is a fast-paced teaching hospital which has come a long way from its origins as a tent hospital in the 1790s to now having 855 beds.

A $790 million redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital with a new education and research hub, makes it one of the largest hospital and tertiary referral centres in NSW. Providing specialty services, it has a strong commitment to teaching and research, housing the Ingham Institute. Liverpool Hospital commits to innovation, resulting in systems implemented in hospitals worldwide, including day of surgery admissions and the MET.

Fairfield Hospital is a metropolitan hospital providing ED, heart care, dialysis, maternity, paediatrics, medical/surgical and outpatient services. With approximately 200 beds, it admits over 16,000 patients annually. It’s a UNSW teaching hospital and an Associate of the Western Sydney University. Located close to shops and schools, it is easily accessible using public transport and main arterial roads.

The Tweed Hospital is metres away from the Queensland border offering accredited training positions in Anaesthetics, Medicine, Orthopaedics, General Surgery, O&G, ICU and ED. All major specialities and sub-specialities provide excellent training for graduates pursuing careers in metropolitan and rural general practice or specialist training programmes. TTH has the busiest ED in rural NSW. It’s a teaching hospital for Universities of Queensland, NSW, Sydney, Bond and Griffith.

Kempsey District Hospital is an 81-bed, Level 3 facility with ED, medical, day surgical, rehab, renal, maternity and outpatient services. Located on the Mid-North Coast of NSW. Port Macquarie Hospital is its main referral hospital. KDH is a teaching hub for CSU and UNSW, offering valuable trainee rotations with high exposure to Indigenous healthcare and outpatient clinics. Kempsey’s surrounds has an appealing mix of stunning coast and magical hinterland.

The primary purpose of the Basic Physician Trainee (BPT) is to provide effective medical services to patients under supervision, while developing expertise in medical practice in a complex clinical environment in inpatient and outpatient areas in the public health organisations within the Network.   
Basic Physician Training roles consist of rotations through medical departments, working under an appropriate level of supervision by consultants.  Rotations have different levels of responsibility and team structures.  BPTs will gain increasing clinical autonomy and accountability as team leaders throughout the course of the up to three-year training program, building on their skills and attributes with the goal of entering an Advanced Training program. 
 
BPTs undertaking the care of medical patients should ensure that they operate within their own level of expertise within a collaborative clinical care model and to seek consultation with the treating physician when appropriate, in the following activities:

·         Clinically assess patients, incorporating consultation/history taking, examination, and formulation of a differential diagnosis and management plans

·         Discuss diagnoses and management plans with patients and their families or carers

·         Document the progress of patients in multiple settings

·         Prescribe medications tailored to patients’ needs and conditions

·         Transfer care of patients

·         Choose, organise and interpret investigations

·         Assess and manage acutely unwell patients

·         Plan, prepare for, perform, and provide after care for important procedures