| College accreditation | RACGP |
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| Pathway | Rural |
Practice Information
| Number of doctors | 11 |
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| Number of supervisors | 6 |
| Number of rooms | 15 |
| Billing | Private |
| Allied health professionals | Dietitian and Diabetic Educator |
Nursing Staff
We have eight part time nurses employed by the practice and usually three in the clinic at any time. Two of our nurses do the over 75 Home Health Assessments and one nurse runs a chronic disease clinic each Tuesday mainly dealing with diabetes.
The nurses always assist with minor procedures in our theatre.
Additional learning opportunities
| Clinical meetings |
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Training Expectations
| Practice opening hours | Mon - Fri 8.30am to 6pm Sat 9-12 noon |
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| College Requirements | Full time training requires 38 hrs per week employed averaged over 4 weeks. Less than 38 hours per week employed is part time training. |
| Evening roster | one night on call weekly |
| Saturday and Sunday work | 1 in eight/nine weekends |
Out of practice visits
Hospital visits, nursing home visits and home visits – a vehicle will be required.
We have an extensive orientation period over two weeks where you sit in with each supervisor for a session and the nurses do several tutorials as well to cover immunisations, dressings etc.
We are also heavily involved with the teaching of Medical students from Melbourne University.
Some of our doctors have special interests i.e. women’s health, palliative care, obstetrics. Several of our supervisors assist our orthopaedic surgeons each week as well.
Public holiday work
Each doctor usually is only rostered on for one public holiday per year
| Key contact: | Helen Judd |
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| Address: | 70 Ovens Street WANGARATTA |
| Telephone: | 03 5721 2176 |
| Fax: | 03 5722 3179 |
| Email address for applications: | hjudd@ovensmedical.com.au |
| Website: | http://ovensmedical.com.au/ |
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Local Hospital Information
Hospital affiliations
North East Health – Wangaratta
Wangaratta Private
Hospital admission rights/ privileges
The registrar will apply for admitting rights to both hospitals upon commencement at our clinic
On-call
Ovens Medical Group has a doctor on call 24/7. There is a roster system in place and presently the doctors do one in eight weekends on call.
GP Advanced Skills opportunities
| Obstetrics |
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Schooling
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| Other |