Welcoming the doctors of the future to SMHS
SMHS 2024 intern cohort
125 medical graduates have joined South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) this week, signalling the commencement of their careers as doctors.
The graduates, known as interns, will spend the next 12 months completing five rotations (10-11 weeks per rotation) in different speciality areas at Fiona Stanley, Fremantle and Rockingham General hospitals, as well as at Albany Health Campus, Broome Health Campus and Northam Regional Hospital.
Each intern is required to complete a rotation in a speciality area covering the following clinical experience classification categories:
- undifferentiated illness care
- chronic illness care
- acute and critical illness care
- perioperative/procedural care.
With over 30 interns joining SMHS from interstate and six from overseas, this year's cohort come from a diverse background including pharmacy, nursing, allied health, engineering and emergency services.
Having completed a five-day induction and orientation, each intern participated in clinical scenarios, completed equipment training and joined in an 'Amazing Race' site familiarisation style exercise before commencing their first rotation.
SMHS Area Director of Clinical Services Dr Mark Monaghan added how integral these graduates are.
"Our interns play a crucial role in the hospital and health care system, putting their specialist skills and training to good use to deliver the highest levels of compassionate, patient-centred care.
"At SMHS we've worked hard to create a supportive learning environment where junior doctors feel safe and enabled to further develop and fine-tune their unique and highly valued skills.
"We extend a warm welcome to all the interns who have joined the SMHS family and wish them all the best as they kick-start their medical careers with us," Mark said.
