ANTARCTIC MEDICAL PRACTITIONER – APPLICATION QUESTIONS

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Information for applicants:

Selection for interview is based on your application. This standard questionnaire enables simplified processing by selection committees and should be used by all applicants. Time generally does not permit additional information be sought prior to interview.

Most positions available are for 'winter' (total employment 15-18 months, time in Antarctica 10-15 months). Occasional shorter term appointments may be available as ships' and summer station and field doctors.

THESE POSITIONS ARE FOR QUALIFIED AND REGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTIONERS ONLY. THERE ARE NO POSITIONS FOR NURSING OR PARAMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS.

  1. Basic Medical Degree (Please list in order of Qualification, Year, University):

(Certified Copy will be required and should be attached to your application)

  1. Postgraduate Qualifications, Fellowshipsand Higher Degrees (Please list in order of Qualification, Year, University/College):

(Certified Copy will be required and should be attached to your application)

  1. Australian Medical Registration(s) (Please detailAHPRA Registration No., Date, Type, Specialty (if appropriate), and any conditions, undertakings, notations endorsements, restrictions or reprimands):

(Copy of Current AHPRA Registration certificate will be required and should be attached to your application)

  1. Qualifications and Training - Medical or Health Service related (Please include short courses eg Advanced life support, Trauma andPrehospital courses and details of progress in current training pathways etc, specifying titles of certificates, year and awarding authority, and indicate currency):
  1. Qualifications and Training - Other (Please specify titles of certificates, year and awarding authority, and indicate currency):
  1. Present Position (Describe your present position, indicate whether permanent or temporary, the type of work you do):
  1. Postgraduate Training –PGY1: (Please include Year(s) and positions held):
  1. Postgraduate Training –PGY2/3: (Please include Year(s) and positions held):
  1. Postgraduate Training - Registrar: (Please include Year(s) and positions held):

Summary of Medical Experience - Explanatory Note:

For each of the areas of medical practice following, please summarise your experience covering the situations in which you have gained that experience. Indicate special or unusual features of your work and any other feature of your experience which you feel contributes significantly to your ability to meet the criteria specified for the position.

  1. General Medicine (include such areas as General Medicine, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Psychiatry and Counselling, Remote and Isolated Generalist Practice):
  1. Emergency Management (include such areas a Urology & STI, Thoracic, Burns):
  1. Anaesthetics and Intensive Care (Specify Airway skills, General and regional anaesthesia):
  1. Surgery (include both general and plastic surgery):
  1. Orthopaedics(include closed fracture management, dislocations)
  1. Other Comments (including diving, altitude, aviation and retrieval medicine):

NB: Any other comment you wish to make regarding your job experience and knowledge which is not covered above may be made here.