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Resident Medical Officers...
Medicine department
The Medicine Department at Waikato DHB provides a comprehensive range of adult medical inpatient and
outpatient services for a local population of 371,540 and, for a range of tertiary services, a further regional
population of 848,311.
Services are principally based at Waikato Hospital with outreached services to a number of local and
regional hospitals. Thames Hospital has its own resident physicians.
Acute medicine at Waikato Hospital
Waikato Hospital has approximately 15,000 acute medical admissions a year. Medical admissions are
streamed from the Emergency Department (ED) to General Medicine, Respiratory and Cardiology.
Who are we:
 70 physicians based at Waikato Hospital
 Four physicians based at Thames Hospital
 50 registrars
 34 house officers
 Three SHOs in Thames (shared with ED/Surgery)
Physician training programme
The Waikato DHB has a comprehensive, well resourced, physician training programme overseen by the
Director of Physician Training.
Basic physician training
 We are accredited as a Level 3 teaching hospital by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
[RACP] for basic physician training
 Trainees can meet all their basic physician training requirements by rotating through a
comprehensive range of medical runs here at Waikato Hospital
 We provide an excellent programme for preparation for the FRACP Written and Clinical
Examinations and have had a good success rate in recent years
 We support registrars to subscribe to the weekly medical science PEP lecture series video-
conferenced from the RACP in Australia.
 These lectures are complemented by weekly in-house exam-focused sessions
 We support attendance at the Written Examination preparation training courses and six weeks of
study leave in the written examination year
 We have regular short and long case preparation sessions for the clinical examination and
organise a mock clinical examination every year
 There is a weekly Medical Round and a weekly Grand Round.
Advanced trainees
All the medical specialties at Waikato Hospital are able to provide advanced training, leading to
Fellowship of the Australasian of Physicians. Entry to advanced training at Waikato Hospital is
competitive and, at this stage, a maximum of 50% of registrar posts in any specialty are able to be
occupied by advanced trainees.
A number of UK advanced trainees have had time at Waikato Hospital accredited towards their UK
advanced training.