SUMMARY

• Working in a well-supported, experienced, and enthusiastic clinical unit of Westmead Anaesthesia.
• Involved in the provision of care for over 5,000 deliveries per year.
• Anaesthesia for all surgical specialties provided at Westmead Hospital with a focus on Obstetric, Gynae-oncology and Gynaecological operating lists (elective and emergency).
• Collaborative care planning with O&G for high-risk mothers.
• Reviewing of cases in the high-risk obstetric clinic (HRAC) followed by management of these patients during pregnancy and delivery.
• Co-ordination with the Children’s Hospital Westmead for foetuses with complex congenital conditions requiring surgery on delivery (e.g., EXIT procedures).
• Participate in the teaching of junior trainees, residents, and medical students.
• Participate in obstetric emergency multidisciplinary simulation team training including obstetricians and midwives.
• Participate in the research activities of the department
• Participate in the onsite afterhours roster of trainees of the department (evenings, nights, and weekends).

The provisional fellow will work closely with specialist high-risk obstetric anaesthetists, feto-maternal medicine obstetricians, high-risk midwives, and various physicians with a subspecialty interest in obstetrics.
You will work in the fortnightly High Risk obstetric Anaesthetic Clinic (HRAC) alongside specialist high-risk obstetric anaesthetists to assess mothers with a diverse range of comorbidities including cardiac, neurological, haematological, musculoskeletal, abnormal placentation and rare genetic syndromes.
You will be involved and participate in multidisciplinary meetings to collaboratively formulate antenatal and peri-partum management plans facilitating safe delivery and communicate these plans to all obstetric anaesthetists within the department.
The provisional fellow will also be involved with the provision of anaesthesia services covering Birth Unit, Obstetric, Gynaecological, Gynaecological Oncology as well as general operative lists. You will have the opportunity to implement the management plans formulated in the HRAC for high-risk obstetric patients.
As the provisional fellow, numerous opportunities exist for you to be for involved with quality improvement, audit and research activities involving obstetric anaesthesia.
The obstetric anaesthesia subspeciality group is a supportive, experienced, and largest subspecialty department within Westmead Anaesthesia at Westmead Hospital. It has an active teaching program with opportunities for learning, as well as the provision of teaching to junior trainees, the broader anaesthetic department, midwives, and obstetricians.
The close links with The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, means the fellow will also be involved in the care of mothers pregnant with fetuses needing advanced anaesthetic techniques for safe fetal delivery (Ex-Utero Intrapartum Treatment – EXIT procedures) and advanced post-delivery care, many of whom will come from rural NSW.