Hawkins Clinic
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ASGC-RA Classification: RA 2 RRMA Classification: 4 GP Trainers: Practice Address: Telephone: (08) 8725 5266 Practice Manager: Email: Web:
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This practice has vacancies for GPT 1, 2 or 3 registrars. The practice is also a PGPPP site for interns.
Training Opportunities
We offer a full range of educational opportunities to Registrars - tutorials, corridor case discussions, video consultation analysis as well as GP CME, which is often organised regionally in the Mount Gambier area. Our two Supervisors are very experienced: one has held the SA regional medical educator position for several years and other has an MA in education from the UK. We offer opportunities to train in obstetrics and, if you have interest in anaesthetics, we can pursue opportunities in the area to further your interest. Our Doctors have access to private patients in the Mt. Gambier Hospital.
Registrar Support
Flinders University places medical students in our Practice and provides educational activities for students, Registrars and GPs in the area. We have an ongoing continuing education focus in the Practice and have in-house clinical meetings with presentations and discussion.
We provide a 3-bedroom furnished house as accommodation for our Registrars.
In our Clinic Rooms
Our clinic, opened in 1974, is modern and purpose built. With recent renovations we now have 16 consulting rooms (11 of which have adjacent separate examination rooms) and one dental suite. To give the large Practice the feel of a more intimate Practice, groups of consulting rooms have their own patient waiting area and receptionist. Our treatment area includes separate treatment cubicles and ECG, vitalograph, gynaecological and plaster rooms. Our clinic has its own audiometry annexe (to ASA standards) and a separate consulting room for our Practice Mental Health Workers.
We have a full complement of nursing, reception, clerical and administrative staff including a Practice Manager. Our clinic operates a 45-user Windows computer network. We use Best Practice clinical software for our fully computerised patient records and each workstation has fast broadband internet access. Clinic fees are set independent of the Commonwealth schedule and AMA fee levels. Pensioners are bulk-billed and financially disadvantaged patients are offered discounted fees.
Our nursing staff provide antenatal consulting, pap smears and assist with the management of patients with chronic diseases through management plan preparation and review.
Patient Profile
Mount Gambier is a city of some 26,000 with a further 10,000 in the immediate environs, equidistant from Adelaide and Melbourne.
Specialists
At present there are resident in the city, a specialist hospital physician, three general surgeons, two orthopaedic surgeons, two obstetrician/gynaecologists and three ophthalmologists. Paediatricians are currently being recruited and are expected in 2009. Regular visiting specialists include two ENT surgeons, psychiatrists, a rheumatologist, a gastroenterologist, a nephrologist, an oncologist, cardiologists and visiting specialists from the Women's and Children's Hospital.
Hospital
The Mt Gambier Hospital includes a 30 beds for general medical/rehab/psychiatric, a 30-bed surgical ward, 6-bed I.C.U., paediatric unit, obstetric ward, 3 operating theatres and a 24-hour emergency department staffed by Salary Medical Officers.
Hours of Operation
Clinic Hours:
Monday to Friday 8:30 am - 6:00 pm;
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am;
Sunday and public holidays 11:00 am and 7:00 pm.
Regular evening clinic 7.00pm.
Consulting hours are variable. We stagger consulting hours so some Doctors start early and finish early, whilst others start late and finish late. Full time consulting is considered as 9 three-hour sessions Monday to Friday, with inclusion in the After Hours roster.
After Hours roster:
On duty Doctor conducts evening clinic (with backup if busy) and takes overnight calls from the community (most patients present direct to Accident and Emergency at the Hospital). Doctors rostered to after hours clinic on Saturday and Sunday evenings from 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm and on Sunday mornings from 11.00 am to 12 noon.
Staff in the Practice
Hawkins is a large group practice currently with 11 partners (two part time) and 3 assistants (one part time) and 3 registrars (two basic/advanced and one subsequent).
Doctors
Dr Peter Charlton MB BS BMed Sc D (Obst) RCOG Dip RACOG
Dr Diana Cross MB BS Dip RACOG
Dr Steve Dunn MB BS DA Dip RACOG FRACGP DIH (GP Trainer)
Dr Adrian Elliot-Smith MA MB BS MRCGP DRCOG DFFP (GP Trainer)
Dr Mark Morgan MA MB BCh DCH DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Ronan Mackle MA Bch DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Nicola Morgan MA MB BCh DCH DRCOG MRCGP FRACGP
Dr Debbie Hough BSc MB BCh FPC
Dr Mike Bruorton MB Bch MRCGPGP
Dr Jose Estevez MD DE LAS VILLAS FRACGP
Dr Jason Johnson MB BS FRACGPRegistrars
Dr Khadiza Kubra
Dr Naquibul Islam
Dr Diana ZwijnenburgAssistants
Dr Suliman Moolla
Dr Nafeesa Moolla
Dr Medhat KhalifaNurses
Dianne, Wendy, Gloria, Marianne, Mary Anne, Patti, SharonSupported by 15 Admin Staff
Please visit our website at http://www.hawkinsmedical.com.au for more information.
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