Senior Resident Medical Officer

ydney Local Health District is seeking a highly motivated Senior Resident Medical Officer (JMO)  to join the Molecular Imaging Team at RPA Hospital

What you will be doing:

This position is open to qualified candidates with a minimum of 2 years post graduate clinical experience as a medical officer.

On a day-to-day basis, the primary role of the Medical Officer is to assist in the provision of a comprehensive, effective and high-quality medical service to patients attending the Department of Molecular Imaging, while developing a basic understanding of medical imaging and the role of Molecular Imaging (PET-CT and general nuclear medicine) in patient management. This will involve: liaising closely and effectively with other Departmental staff, patients and hospital visitors, facilitating the smooth running of the Department, obtaining comprehensive and relevant clinical histories, maintaining a high standard of medical record documentation, reviewing patients and instituting appropriate clinical management/treatment, liaising with clinicians, to clarify requests and determine their urgency, participating in research and reporting and attending relevant Departmental meetings and Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings (MDTs).

This position will provide you with valuable training for a career in medical imaging (PET-CT, general nuclear medicine and radiology).

The Department of Molecular Imaging

The Department of Molecular Imaging at RPA, in which the successful applicant will work, is one of the most experienced and advanced Units in the country. In 1992, the Department at RPA was the 1st PET Department established in Australia. Since that time the Department has performed in excess of 130,000 PET and PET-CT scans (with the 100,000^th patient scan milestone occurring in 2020), which is one of the largest experiences in the country. In PET, there are 2 scanners – the Biograph ‘Quadra’ and Biograph ‘Vision 600’ PET-CT scanners. The scanners are most advanced in the country – the Quadra (first full body PET-CT scanner), installed in 2021 was the 2^nd such device installed in the world and the 1^st in Australia; the Vision 600, installed in late 2019 was the 1^st in the southern hemisphere. The Vision is validated for National and International clinical trials, where the Department has also provided services as a ‘Core’ Imaging Lab. In general, nuclear medicine, there are 3 scanners – including one SPECT-CT scanner. In 2002, the Department also installed the 1^st hospital-owned and operated medical cyclotron and associated Radiochemistry facilities, which have been in continuous operation since then. In January 2014, RPA became the 1^st public hospital facility in the country to receive a GMP Manufacturing Licence for PET tracers from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The cyclotron has been enhanced so it operates at very high beam currents and produces improved isotope yields - it produces PET isotopes for clinical and research needs at RPA as well as supplying FDG and PET tracers to other hospitals.

Where you will be working:

The Department is located on Level 7 of the Albert Pavilion (Building 63) in the main clinical building within the RPA hospital campus. Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) is a busy tertiary referral (group A1) hospital based in the heart of Sydney and affords the opportunity to be exposed to a plethora of unusual disease entities and disease manifestations, sophisticated and unique technologies and experts-in-their-field. Originally opened in 1882, RPA has earned a reputation for excellence in health care delivery and is renowned for its substantive contributions to teaching and research. Located in the suburb of Camperdown, the main hospital campus is situated on the East side of Missenden Rd between Johns Hopkins and Gloucester House Drives with additional buildings on the West side extending from the IRO building at Dunblane St to the Radiation oncology and engineering buildings just behind the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse (COBL). Nearby institutes & research centres include the Brain & Mind Research Institute, Heart Research Institute, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Centenary Institute of Medicine and Cell Biology. RPA forms part of the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD), which is one of 15 Local Health Districts in NSW. Other hospitals within the SLHD include Concord, Balmain, Canterbury and Sydney Dental Hospital. Working at RPA affords the opportunity to be exposed to a plethora of unusual disease entities and disease manifestations, sophisticated and unique technologies and leading health professionals.

What we can offer you:

• Supportive, collegiate and diverse work environment
• Ongoing professional development and career opportunities
• Salary packaging and fitness passport for eligible staff including utilizing SLHD gym facilities
• Wellbeing, advocacy, mentorship and support opportunities exclusively for medical staff through SLHDs multifaceted workplace program MDOK.