Careers in Medicine

For Medical Practitioner enquiries please email HRMedical.SCGH@health.wa.gov.au or telephone (08) 9346 3136.
For enquiries about observerships within a particular department please contact the relevant department directly.

As Western Australia’s leading clinical research and teaching hospital for medical graduates across almost all major disciplines, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital excels in delivering the most comprehensive, relevant and hands-on tertiary training available in this State.  This is achieved through a hospital culture that emphasises bedside and unit-based teaching programs designed and run by each department.

In addition the Department of Post Graduate Medical Education provides a range of hospital-wide learning activities for graduates to continuously improve and expand their clinical knowledge, skills and comprehension.  Initiatives include:

• Grand Rounds - regular lunchtime clinical information sessions
• Case Study Clinical Meetings
• Modular courses
• Teaching on the Run
• Learning on the Run
• Advanced Life Support
• Immediate Life Support
• Medical Emergency Team training

Components of tertiary paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology are also available at other hospitals linked to SCGH. 

Eligibility

All doctors must be registered with The Medical Board of Western Australia.  You need to make sure you are eligible for registration through one of three pathways:

• Standard Pathway
• Competent Authority Pathway, or
• Specialist Pathway

Overseas Trained Doctors

Information for overseas qualified doctors interested in working in Western Australia is available here.