Description:
RCH Uncle Bob's Neurology Fellowship 2026
The Uncle Bob’s Neurology Fellowship includes a mix of service and training activities. The Fellow will be supervised in his/her clinical duties, which will include outpatient management, inpatient management, inpatient consultations, routine EEG reporting and after-hours emergency management. The Fellowship will include exposure to sub-speciality services including epilepsy and neuromuscular services. Clinics, ward rounds and consultation reviews are all supervised by a consultant and conducted in a teaching format.
Specific duties of the Fellow include:
Daily responsibilities:
- Ward rounds – reviewing new admissions, potential discharges and inpatient consultations.
- Supervise HMO admissions of emergency and elective patients.
- Take phone calls from emergency department, other units, patients and other hospitals.
Weekly responsibilities:
- See patients in a weekly, supervised neurology clinic.
- Attend Neurology ward rounds and clinical meetings. Coordinate meetings and present patients’ histories at neurology ward rounds. Attend and present at the weekly Neurology seminars. Attend the weekly Neuroradiology Meeting.
- Report routine EEGs and review with one of the neurologists up to once a week, depending on the trainee’s level of experience in paediatric neurology and EEG.
- Participate in the after-hours on-call roster.
- The Fellow is encouraged to undertake a clinical research project.
Dependent on service requirements and the Fellow’s level of experience, the fellowship may include a rotation through a specialist epilepsy or neuromuscular rotation.
Teaching
The Fellow is encouraged to attend weekly teaching sessions in neurophysiology and clinical neurology run by the department, the RACP paediatric ‘Brain School’, the monthly ANZCNS case presentations, and other relevant courses in neurology and neuroscience if their clinical schedule allows, such as the weekly Victorian adult neurology registrar lectures. The Fellow may also attend specialised clinics and neurophysiology lists.
This fellowship is accredited as 12 months of core training by the RACP ATC in Neurology.
For more information contact Ian.Woodcock@rch.org.au or 03 9345 5661
For a detailed copy of the Position Description please click here.
Please note that the successful applicant must undergo a police and working with children check. In addition, all International Medical Graduate applicants will need to refer to the AHPRA website to ensure they have passed the necessary English language test: https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Registration/Registration-Standards/English-language-skills.aspx