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QUESTION: Why work for the Mackay Health Service District.
ANSWER: We are endeavouring to get the people environment right and that involves making this region attractive for residents to come here and to work and study here. At Mackay we want to ensure our new staff want to stay and we do this by giving them specialist training where they can stay and pursue their goals.
QUESTION: What educational opportunities will be available for me in the future?
ANSWER: The big advantage of being in Mackay in a medical education sense is that we have a very proactive medical educational unit.
Today’s medical students, interns and residents are tomorrow’s doctors for Mackay, and we will be creating a new future together.
A wide variety of opportunities are offered in undergraduate, prevocational and vocational training. We are trying to create a seamless pathway in collaboration with James Cook University and the Northern Clinical Training Network.
It is extremely important to get that right because medical training is an incredible challenge but also an incredible opportunity.
The number of medical students and the number of interns at Mackay Base Hospital is ramping up very quickly indeed and that is a challenge for educators.
But it is an opportunity for the hospital because these medical students, interns and registrars are the workforce of the future.
We will need them for the new hospital.
We are going to have a substantial increase in the number of beds, so we are going to need a substantial increase in the number of resident doctors and registrars.
As a result there will be a substantial increase in the amount of training that is offered to those doctors.
The challenge for us is to recruit them, mentor them and make them want to stay.
They will be the staff of our new hospital. The new $408 million redevelopment will provide a diverse range of opportunities for graduates because along with increasing the number of beds, we will need to grow our workforce.
Dr Dale Hansom, Mackay Base Hospital Director of Clinical Education
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smart hospital goes digital |
| As part of the redevelopment, Mackay Base Hospital will have a complete educational precinct on site, plus it will be the first fully digitally integrated Queensland Health Hospital with full wireless coverage. The Acting Redevelopment Co-ordinator said this digital integration supported health initiatives, improved administration and record keeping. K Block, the first facility to come on line later this year, has ultimately been designed as an educational precinct comprising the Mackay Base Hospital Education and Research Centre in collaboration with James Cook University. This education centre will be available to both staff and students. It will contain a simulation complex, lecture rooms, tutorial and meeting rooms, computer resources both individual and lab-based, library facilities and student break-out space. This area will ultimately also have open plan office space for educators and support areas.  |
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