Obstetrics

In addition to being the largest obstetric hospital in South Australia, the WCH provides a maternal fetal medicine service for South Australia and Northern Territory and some parts of Victoria and New South Wales.

An extensive two-day orientation program is run at the beginning of each year which covers areas such as emergency, newborn resuscitation and interpretation of fetal heart rate traces.

CYWHS obstetrics currently employs 2 interns, 9 RMOs and 11 registrars. The Health Service has two interns at any one time, who are here for eight weeks on rotation from the Royal Adelaide Hospital. They cover primarily post-natal, delivery and women’s assessment service.

There are up to nine RMOs, some of whom are in GP training and others who are looking to pursue specialist training. Antenatal clinics are also covered by RMOs. Responsibility increases as skills are acquired.

In addition, there are 11 registrars including three in the College Integrated Training Program (which leads to the membership MRANZCOG exam taken in the 4th year), one maternal fetal medicine fellow, one senior obstetric registrar and one senior gynaecology registrar plus several “unaccredited” registrars.

Some are junior registrars aiming to enter the Integrated Training Program the following year, whilst others are more senior and trained overseas and wish to get credentials acknowledged by the College in order to sit the MRANZCOG exam.

The special areas of expertise include maternal fetal medicine with invasive procedures performed such as amniocentesis, CVS, fetal blood sampling and intra-uterine transfusion. There is a special interest in ultrasound scanning and registrars spend one month training in this during the year.

Registrars rotate through antenatal and postnatal wards and clinics, delivery suite and women’s assessment service (emergency).

Friday afternoon teaching sessions are held for all SA registrars and this program is also linked by telehealth to Darwin and Mt Gambier.

Contact:

Dr Geoff Matthews, Director of Obstetrics
Ph: 61 8 161 7633
Email: geoff.matthews@cywhs.sa.gov.au

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