Description:
RCH Neuromuscular Fellowship 2026
The Neuromuscular Fellowship includes a mix of service and training activities and is tailored to the trainee’s skills and needs. The fellowship offers clinical training in diagnosis and management of neuromuscular diseases. The fellow will have the opportunity to participate in the development of clinical research projects.
Clinical duties will be supervised by one of the neuromuscular neurologists.
Specific duties of the Fellow include:
- Seeing patients in the weekly supervised multidisciplinary neuromuscular clinic.
- Seeing patients in a weekly supervised general neurology clinic.
- Attendance at the weekly nerve conduction/electromyography list, and any additional studies scheduled for outpatients/inpatients.
- Coordination of inpatient neurophysiologic studies.
- Seeing neuromuscular inpatient admissions and consults, and supervision of junior medical staff attending these patients.
- Attendance at Neurology ward rounds and clinical meetings, and coordination of regular departmental neuropathology meetings.
- Attend and present at the weekly Neurology seminars, and attend the weekly Neuroradiology Meeting.
- Participation in the after-hours on-call roster.
- Involvement in a clinical research project is encouraged. This may take up to one day per week.
Dependent on service requirements and the Fellow’s level of experience, the fellowship may include a rotation through a general neurology or specialist epilepsy rotation.
Teaching
The fellowship provides ample time to attend clinical meetings, ward rounds, and seminars, observe specialised clinics, and learn important aspects of neurophysiology and multidisciplinary management of neuromuscular disorders.
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.
Six months of the fellowship can be accredited as core training by the RACP STC in Neurology and six months as non-core training.
For further information contact Ian.Woodcock@rch.org.au or 03 9345 5661
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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