Advanced Training
Training Positions
- Advanced Training Core Positions:
- 4 first year advanced trainees
- 3 second year advanced trainees
- Applications for first year training via PMCV website
- Contact: sally.bell@monashhealth.org
- Advanced Training Non-core Positions:
- 3rd year IBD clinical research fellow
- contact gregory.moore@monash.edu
- 3rd year Hepatology clinical research fellow
- contact anouk.dev@monash.edu
- 3rd year IBD clinical research fellow
- 4th year Interventional Endoscopy Fellowship; ERCP/EUS/Third space. contact Michael.swan@monashhealth.org
- Associated opportunities exist in the related disciplines of;
- Addiction medicine; Dr David Jacka; david.jacka@monashhealth.org
- Clinical nutrition; Darcy Holt; darcy.holt@monashhealth.org
Contacts
- Unit Director: Sally Bell; sally.bell@monashhealth.org
- Unit Deputy Director and hepatology clinical lead: Anouk Dev; anouk.dev@monash.edu
- Endoscopy clinical lead:Michael Swan; Michael.swan@monashhealth.org.
- IBD clinical lead; Greg Moore, gregory.moore@monash.edu
General Information
Monash Health is the largest health service in Victoria, serving approximately 30% of the state population. Monash Medical Centre Clayton is a large tertiary referral centre (640 beds) and the largest public hospital in the Southern Melbourne region. Dandenong Hospital is the second largest hospital (520 beds) followed by Casey Hospital (Berwick, 240 beds) which has recently opened a 12 bed ICU, and new endoscopy suite. Gastroenterology inpatient services, endoscopy units and outpatient clinics are located at both Clayton and Dandenong, with an endoscopy and inpatient consult service provided to Casey Hospital. In addition, the gastroenterology unit run a number of community-based outreach outpatient clinics at Berwick, Springvale and Cranbourne. The Gastroenterology and Hepatology service is coordinated by the head of department, Assoc. Prof Sally Bell and the Deputy Director, Assoc. Prof Anouk Dev who are the primary and secondary training supervisors.
Monash Gastroenterology is Victoria’s largest gastroenterology unit. The team currently comprises thirty six gastroenterologists, two ward teams (Clayton and Dandenong), 7 accredited core registrars, three clinical fellows, 5 PhD students, as well as clinical nurse specialists for hepatology, IBD, liver cancer and clinical trial coordinators. We run three endoscopy units (Clayton, Dandenong and Casey Hospitals) and a large clinical trials unit. Rotating junior medical staff include an intern and two residents at Clayton and three residents at Dandenong in addition to Monash University medical students on clinical rotations. We care for 3000 GI inpatients/year, provide approximately 13000 ambulatory endoscopic procedures, and see over 20,000 outpatients per annum across a range of speciality clinics including general gastroenterology, hepatobiliary, endoscopy, liver, decompensated liver, NASH, liver tumour, and IBD (general, transition and pregnancy). There is close surgical liaison with upper GI, hepatobiliary and colorectal surgery. There is a busy fibroscan service and three intestinal ultrasound lists a week.
We are a tertiary centre for patients with hepatobiliary disease and liver and pancreatic malignancy and offer the full range of endoscopic, surgical, loco‐regional and oncological treatments for these patients with the exception of transplantation. We have Victoria’s largest experience with medical and surgical management of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. The endoscopic strengths of the unit are both general endoscopy and specialised interventional endoscopy including diagnostic and therapeutic EUS, ERCP, EMR, ESD, and GI stenting. The IBD group coordinates a paediatric transition clinic, a pregnancy and IBD service, Virtual biologic clinic, pharmacy and nurse clinics, and a large biologic therapy service, as well as offering translational trials in the area of stem and T regulatory cell therapy. The Unit is actively involved in basic and clinical research in collaboration with Monash University and the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, all partners in the Monash Health Translation Precinct. The MHTP Translational Research Facility includes a dedicated Clinical Trial Centre.