Advanced Trainee Opportunities Respiratory and Sleep Medicine

Respiratory and Sleep Medicine | Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory

We are inviting applications for Core Advanced Trainee positions in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Top End, Northern Territory.

Training in Darwin, Top End, NT, offers more than specialist clinical experience. It provides the opportunity to work in a unique and diverse healthcare environment, serve urban, remote and regional communities, collaborate across disciplines and develop skills that will shape your career as a respiratory and sleep physician.

The Respiratory and Sleep Medicine team at Royal Darwin Hospital provides specialist clinical services across the vast geographical region of the Top End of the Northern Territory, including inpatient, outpatient and remote outreach services. Training at RDH offers exposure to a diverse and complex range of acute and chronic respiratory and sleep disorders, while providing a unique opportunity to work across urban, regional and remote settings. Our team regularly travels to remote and regional communities to deliver outreach clinics. This provides valuable opportunities to collaborate with local healthcare teams and gain experience in providing culturally responsive care to a large Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. Further, opportunities for dual training in General Medicine.

Training and Clinical Opportunities

Advanced Trainees will have opportunities to develop skills and experience in:

• Respiratory and sleep outpatient settings

• Remote and regional outreach clinics

• Inpatient respiratory/sleep consultations

• Hands on Pleural procedures

• Pulmonary function and sleep study interpretation and reporting

• Perform Bronchoscopy and EBUS

• Management of complex respiratory and sleep disorders, including CPAP and NIV

Passed both written and clinical RACP Physicians exam or equivalent for both Respiratory and Sleep AT position. 

Post FRACP for Sleep AT position can apply.

• One-year Core Respiratory Advanced Trainee — fully funded

•       Six-month Core Sleep Advanced Trainee — (private/public – partially funded) 

Training is supported by strong multidisciplinary links and close collaboration with Infectious Diseases, including Tuberculosis services, Cardiology, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Intensive Care, Medical Oncology and Thoracic Surgery.

Royal Darwin Hospital offers ample opportunities for clinical research, quality improvement and academic development, with the potential to pursue projects across respiratory, sleep and multidisciplinary areas.

For further details please contact:

Prof Subash Heraganahally, Director and Head of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital

Phone: (08) 8922 8***, (08) 892063***or Mobile: 0457224***

E-mail: ***************@nt.gov.au

A/Prof Kaspar Willson, Director and Head, Division of General Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital

Phone: (08) 8922 8***

E-mail: **************@nt.gov.au

Prof Nadarajah Kangaharan, Medical Co-Director, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital 

Phone: (08) 8922 8***

E-mail: ***************@nt.gov.au

Applications to:

***************@nt.gov.au 

***************@nt.gov.au 

**************@nt.gov.au 

Phone: (08) 8922 88***– Ask for Division of Medicine office

Note: Both Respiratory and Sleep positions are due for college accreditation renewal for 2027