Joondalup Health Campus medical education offers various educational opportunities, including collaborating with key stakeholders, internal and external experts, and simulation.

Weekly Intern/RMO education sessions

Currently held between 1200 - 1300 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the education sessions are a contemporary and relevant source of information.  The sessions cover topics within medicine, surgery, allied health, and all subspecialties.

JHC education sessions are protected time. Medical and education professionals assess education sessions to maintain a high standard.

JHC provides a free lunch at each session.

Some of our recent teaching sessions:

• Acute Stroke Calls by Dr Shivlal David
• Analgesia & Pain Management by Dr Brian Hue
• Arrhythmias by Dr Jonathan Teoh
• Blood Gases for Dummies by Dr Dave Hawkins
• Chest X-Ray Interpretations by Dr Paul Grolman
• Chronic Kidney Disease by Dr Hung Do Nguyen
• Court Cases by Dr Lisa Zuccherelli
• Delirium by Dr Kevin Kwan
• Diabetes by Dr Sue Davel and Ivone Tatham
• Hypertension and Heart Failure in the Elderly by Dr Chris Chung
• Introduction to Palliative Care & the 'Palliative Approach' by Dr Ellie Knight
• IV Fluids by Prof Paul Moroz
• Kidney Failure by Dr Stephen Richards
• No Stupid Questions by The Education Registrars
• Perioperative Assessment - Cardiac Perspective by Dr Athula Karu
• Respiratory Distress by Dr Daryl Tan
• Sepsis in Children by Dr Gareth Kameron
• SIM Training by the Education Registrars
• Vaginal Bleeding in the Emergency Setting by Dr Mike Kamara

Life Support Training

The hospital provides different levels of life support training for all staff involved in patient care. All interns will undergo resuscitation skills training during orientation. In addition, training is held weekly, providing staff the opportunity to maintain certification and increase confidence in critical situations.

Other life support programs we :

• ALS Level 1 - Immediate Life Support (one day) - Joondalup Health Campus is accredited by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) to deliver ALS1 Courses.
• Advanced Life Support training (two days)
• PLS – (Paediatric Life Support) (two days) - Joondalup Health Campus is accredited with the Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) one-day Paediatric Life Support (PLS) Course centre.
• APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support) (one day)
• Neonatal Resus – 5 times per year
• RAVE (Ramsay Emergency Airway & Ventilation) (2 days) - This is a course aimed at ED & ICU Registrars who are acquiring/developing airway skills but will have tips and pearls for those of greater experience Instructors from ED/ICU/Anaesthetics Depts
• MET Training - 4 times per year.

Grand Rounds

Grand rounds are held every Friday from 1300 - 1400. All topics are medicine-based. Surgical Grand Rounds will be introduced mid  2024.  

Simulation Education

Simulation-based learning activities are hosted throughout Joondalup Health Campus. These include full-day programs, workshops, skill stations, & scenario-based education delivered within the Simulation training space and also insitu within clinical areas. JHC has a dedicated simulation coordinator based at the clinical school.

Simulation-based learning offers our doctors the following:

• Ability to practice skills repeatedly.
• Medical scenarios can be created to suit the learning objectives.
• Practice rarely occurring critical incidents.
• Our simulators can provide objective measures of performance.
• Ability to provide immediate feedback.
• Provides opportunities for team training and interdisciplinary learning
• Offers the opportunity to assess "vulnerabilities in health care delivery" andsystem analysis

Intern Orientation

The Intern Orientation Program is an intensive five-day learning experience mapped to the Australian Curriculum Framework. It offers a mixture of didactic and clinically-focused skills workshops and shadowing components.

Intern orientation week concludes with a handover from outgoing interns on the wards.

Hospital Orientation

We are a large facility that has seen enormous growth in recent years. Whether you are new to JHC or have been with us before, we ensure you know your way around and how to use our systems. Orientation occurs on the first Monday of every new term.

Feedback and Assessment processes are in place for each rotation. The hospital has a strong ethos of support and mentoring and incorporates this into your rotations with assessment forms completed in conference with your supervisor. The process allows each doctor to discuss issues, ask questions, look at career options, and develop professional links and relationships with senior staff.

These will be emailed to you to complete with your term supervisor throughout your rotation.

The forms are based on the Australian Curriculum Framework for junior doctors (developed by the Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils). The forms outline the learning outcomes required by junior doctors to be achieved during their clinical rotation.

Junior medical staff have the opportunity to self-assess against the targeted outcomes.

A dedicated Supervisor of Intern Training and Director of Clinical Training is appointed to mentor and support our junior medical team.

Their roles include:

• Supporting professional development programs
• Providing counselling and career guidance
• Facilitating performance feedback
• Liaising with supervisors of training at rural locations
• Advocacy for junior doctors
• Ensuring all relevant staff work according to the values of the JHC