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Resident Medical Officers...
Waikato regional diabetes service
The service provides one advanced training registrar position suitable for a portion of training in
endocrinology/diabetes or general/medicine diabetes training.
The service is divided into a number of sub-specialist teams which provide in-depth experience in their area
of application. The registrar has active exposure in all of these including the community-based educator
programme. These sub-specialist teams include:
 Diabetes and pregnancy with an emphasis on Type 1 and Type 2 management and insulin infusion
pump therapy.
o Team members – endocrinologist, specialist nurse educator, midwife and dietitian.
 A multidisciplinary team weight management programme for the morbidly obese.
o Team members – endocrinologist, specialist nurse educator, physiotherapist, dietitian,
psychologist.
 Multidisciplinary high risk foot clinic.
o Team members – podiatrist, orthotist, wound care nurse, vascular surgeon.
 Insulin pump teaching programme.
o Team members – endocrinologist, specialist educators, dietitian, psychologist [for children
and young adults].
 Hospital based diabetes education team.
o Team members – specialist educators working closely with the diabetes registrar.
 Adolescent and young adult programme.
o Team members - diabetes specialists, specialist educators, psychologist, dietitian.
 Pharmaceutical trial unit and clinical research team.
o Team members – endocrinologist, research co ordinator and research nurses.
 Community hospital outreach programme.
o The registrar attends monthly outreach programmes in three small community hospitals
with the attending physician.
 Diabetes and Chronic renal disease
o Weekly clinic with a diabetes and renal physician, and a diabetes and renal nurse.
Who we are:
 One clinical director
 Four consultants (leading programmes in, adolescent diabetes , weight management, CKD, insulin
pumps and pregnancy)
 One advanced registrar and one rotating registrar position shared with Endocrinology.
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Resident Medical Officers…
Theatre and Perioperative service
The service employs over 350 staff from a range of professional groups i.e. nursing, medical, sterile-
supply technicians, administration, anaesthetic technicians, health care assistants, . Approximately
23000 procedures (elective and acute)are performed annually.
Current services:
Main theatres
Level 2 theatres = 12 theatres
Level 3 theatres = 12 theatres
Day of Surgery Admission DOSA
Reception K MCC L3
(This service is provided Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays).
Central Sterilising Unit
This unit is open seven days a week, 7.00am to 11.00pm Monday to Friday, and 8.00am to
5.00pm Saturday, Sunday & public holidays.
Miscellaneous services
Anaesthetic and nursing resource is provided for special procedures in the Radiology Department,
Oncology, Psychiatric Unit and Pain Clinic, Delivery Suite as well as providing assistance to the peripheral
hospitals of Health Waikato.