Flinders Medical Centre

Training Positions

2

 

Current Trainee/s

Lucy Robinson

Alice Terrett

 

Patient Services per Standard Week

Registrars do 4-5 clinics, plus inpatients and consults

 

Requirements for On Call / Afterhours (including weekends)

No Rheumatology on call

One weekend shift and one weekday evening shift general medical cover per month

 

Education Activities

Weekly meetings in house, state wide monthly meeting, National and international conference attendance encouraged.

 

Teaching Responsibilities

To junior medical staff and medical students

 

Research Interests of Unit

Multiple RA/ SLE/Scleroderma/ Psoriatc disease/ non inflammatory musculoskeletal pain

 

Head of Unit

Name: Michael Shanahan

 Phone: (08) 82046429

Email: fmcrheumatologyunit@sa.gov.au

 

Staff

Dr Mihir Wechalekar – Synovial pathology of RA/Sjogrens syndrome

Dr Fiona Goldblatt – SLE

Dr Jenny Walker - Scleroderma

Dr Eliza Pontifex – spondyloarthropathy/psoriatic disease

Dr Michael Shanahan -RCTs (therapeutic interventions) , qualitative research, education

 

Comments

 

N/A

 

Recruitment

Recruitment through SA Health

 

Flexible Training

Bespoke. By negotiation.