Starship Children’s Hospital Fellowship

This Paediatric Clinical Fellowship is a fully-funded one year Clinical Fellowship based at Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland. Starship hospital is the largest Paediatric hospital in New Zealand. It serves as a tertiary and quaternary referral centre for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Given its wide catchment area there is extensive exposure to a wide variety of pathologies, sometimes at an advanced stage.

The candidate would experience a busy clinical workload with experience in all aspects of elective and emergency Paediatric Otolaryngology. Whilst airway focussed, the position involves significant exposure to all aspects of paediatric otolaryngology. This includes airway disease, laryngology, otology, rhinology and head and neck surgery. Experience of airway surgery is likely to include both endoscopic and open procedures including laryngotracheal reconstruction, cricotracheal resection and slide tracheoplasty.

The Fellowship is designed to prepare the candidate for a tertiary level Paediatric ORL consultant position at the end of the 12 month period. To gain the most from this position, the candidate should already have reasonable exposure to and experience of paediatric ORL during their higher surgical training.

There is a 1:3 on-call responsibility. This involves supervising a registrar with consultant cover. There is also a funded continuing medical education budget of $16,000. This can be used, for example, to attend National and International conferences.