Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Not provided
Organisation: Monash Health
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Medical
Reference: 53297
**About Monash Health**
**About Monash Doctors**
There are more than 1,300 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service. **About Monash Urology**
The Monash Urology Unit is split between the campuses at Casey Hospital in Berwick and Moorabbin Hospital. It consists of 15 Consultants, 2 honorary Consultants, 4 accredited registrars in training, an overseas Fellow trainee, 4 residents, 7 Urology specialist nurses, and one secretary on each site. The unit is lead overall by the Director of Urology who is the Clinical Head of Moorabbin and Casey sites, with a Deputy Director organising the daily logistics at all sites.
Approximately 5,000 patients are seen through the Outpatient departments at both sites annually with dedicated stone, prostate cancer assessment and nurse-led lower urinary tract symptom clinics. Consultative advice is provided for both emergency cases and referrals to all network hospitals.
The unit deals with a high volume of complex Uro-oncology and kidney stone disease, as well as most other areas of Urological surgery. Cancer services are now based at both sites with Moorabbin Hospital associated with the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Casey Hospital associated with Radiation Oncology Victoria on Kangan Drive, Berwick. Casey Hospital is also the site of only the second extracorporeal lithotripsy service in Victoria. It is the major site for paediatric stone treatment in the State with close teamwork involving the paediatric urology, diagnostic imaging and urology units.
There is also extensive academic collaboration with The Department of Surgery, as well as the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. The Moorabbin Unit is a leading collaborator in the CAPTIV program, furthering translational research in prostate cancer in Victoria and nationally. The Casey Unit is developing clinical research in management of stone disease.
Surgical services include:
- Uro-oncology including all types of male and female urological cancer
- Full range of endourology including laparoscopic surgery and laser treatment of stones and prostate disease
- Urinary incontinence and reconstruction, including a full urodynamic service
- Management of all types of kidney stones, including anaesthetic free shock wave lithotripsy
- Prostate problems, both benign and cancerous
- State of the art, nurse-led bladder cancer surveillance program
What you need:
- Current registrations such as APRHA or working with children's check
- Working with children's check
- PGY4+
- Minimum 6 months of Urology experience (resident or registrar level)
- At least 2 referees must be consultant Urologists
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