2025 Pre-Internship Night One by

Unfortunately, we do not have time to answer these questions today but we will hope to answer your PMCV-specific questions at a future event.

asin0100 — 2025-04-05 06:20:29 UTC

Overtime

2025-04-10 08:38:06 UTC

What is the culture with paying overtime?

Merge with Alfred

2025-04-10 08:41:05 UTC

How will the merge with Alfred affect internship allocations? Still applying for both Peninsula and Alfred separately? Would Peninsula interns be able to be sent to hospitals under Alfred health catchment post merge?

How is the intern teaching at Peninsula?

2025-04-10 08:44:13 UTC

Overtime

2025-04-10 08:44:44 UTC

What is the culture with paying overtime

What are the longest shifts you have to do as an intern?

2025-04-10 08:44:47 UTC

Critcare PGY2

2025-04-10 08:45:01 UTC

Do you know if penninsula still offers crit-care HMO positions next year?

How do you get a rotation in anaesthetics PGY2 in terms of application

2025-04-10 08:45:28 UTC

"Small" hospital culture

2025-04-10 08:45:31 UTC

Hi can you be real about the pros and cons of being in a smallish hospital?

Are there many opportunities to do procedures as an intern at the Alfred?

2025-04-10 08:45:38 UTC

Is it hard to get one-on-one time with consultants/senior registrars as an intern?

2025-04-10 08:46:55 UTC

Culture

2025-04-10 08:48:54 UTC

The rumours about the culture at Alfred is becoming more notorious and being called toxic. Have you found this to be the case?

2025-04-10 08:49:54 UTC

What's the intern culture like at Peninsula

ALS

2025-04-10 08:50:27 UTC

Hi Sam! Just wondering where you did your ALS courses? Thanks!

Is Alfred good for pursuing anaesthetics?

2025-04-10 08:51:27 UTC

How likely are interns to get their specialty rotation of choice? (eg. dermatology)

2025-04-10 08:51:49 UTC

What is the general culture? And are they quite successful on getting their juniors onto anaesthetics training?

2025-04-10 08:52:13 UTC

It is said that internal hiring is a big thing. How likely is one to get onto the BPT program if they have been an intern elsewhere? Would you need to make your CV "less specialty-specific" in order to get onto a limited BPT program?

2025-04-10 08:53:29 UTC

how many crit care residents from PH get into the monash anaesthetics trainings scheme?

2025-04-10 08:54:21 UTC

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What rotations are offered for interns at Warragul?

2025-04-10 08:57:14 UTC

How difficult is it to get back into a metro program having done a rural internship? Does it have an effect on your chances of getting onto a metro training program for crit care and surgery?

Is it true that interns at the Alfred are more likely than others to be accepted into a BPT position at the Alfred?

2025-04-10 08:57:15 UTC

Does peninsula have a culture of hiring from their own for PGY2 and PGY3?

2025-04-10 08:57:39 UTC

will the new redevelopment/hospital be opened by start of next year?

2025-04-10 08:58:32 UTC

We've wrapped up the Q@A for Dr Sam - any further questions please reach out to a committee member from MUMUS Careers or contact Sam directly!

2025-04-10 08:58:56 UTC

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What makes Warragul different from other rural sites and what are the pros and cons of being rural in internship

Is it true that Uni Melb students are preferenced over Monash students at Northern?

2025-04-10 09:00:26 UTC

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What was it like having to move away from the city and go rural on your own? did you find it easy to make new friends and build a support network there

Is BPT training available here?

2025-04-10 09:01:16 UTC

Do you often get to scrub in as a surgical intern at the Alfred or do you find you have to spend all of your time on the wards?

2025-04-10 09:02:15 UTC

What rotations are available for interns here?

2025-04-10 09:03:19 UTC

what's the need for overtime and can you claim it?

2025-04-10 09:03:43 UTC

Is it possible to do all of your rotations at the Alfred or does everybody get moved to Sandringham or Caulfield at some point?

2025-04-10 09:03:44 UTC

Double surg rotation

2025-04-10 09:04:26 UTC

Hi, how did you find doing two surgical rotations in a row and in general how does Alfred support your surgical aspirations?

What is the crit care training program here like?

2025-04-10 09:04:30 UTC

theatre time

2025-04-10 09:05:35 UTC

do interns get much theatre time on ortho, AGSU?

Alfred vs monash

2025-04-10 09:06:01 UTC

How would you compare the pre-surgical program for Monash vs Alfred.

How do you get involved in research as an intern?

2025-04-10 09:06:07 UTC

Is BPT training available here?

2025-04-10 09:06:23 UTC

Since ur surg keen, were there other hospitals u considered? thoughts on western, RMH, monash?

2025-04-10 09:06:45 UTC

Would you say if you want more responsibility as an intern, you would be better off applying to MMC, Eastern, etc.

2025-04-10 09:08:18 UTC

What is the most amount of overtime you've had to do in a week?

2025-04-10 09:09:47 UTC

2025-04-10 09:11:36 UTC

Do you get much hands on experience as an intern in Ballarat?

Track Record

2025-04-10 09:11:41 UTC

I was wondering where you could look to find hospitals' track records regarding different programs.

Getting into programs

2025-04-10 09:12:28 UTC

Where do you track the rates of how good each hospital is at getting people onto training programs?

What make the Pre-SET program great at Alfred?

2025-04-10 09:13:08 UTC

2025-04-10 09:14:36 UTC

What rotations does northern health offer for interns? Do the current PGY2s get opportunities for general years

In the context of GP training, are there paeds opportunities?

2025-04-10 09:15:25 UTC

Is it common for people to enter the Alfred after internship?

2025-04-10 09:17:58 UTC

was your med school CV tailored towards gen surg and the big 4 "requirements/values"

2025-04-10 09:20:56 UTC

was your med school CV tailored towards RMH and its values/requirements?

2025-04-10 09:21:32 UTC

How is Epping for ICU and anaesthetics?

2025-04-10 09:23:14 UTC

how much leave do you get?

2025-04-10 09:25:54 UTC

Is the 7 on 7 off roster more or less hectic than a standard 8-4 roster?

2025-04-10 09:25:56 UTC

Research

2025-04-10 09:26:07 UTC

Are there alot of research opportunities available for interns

What is the intern teaching like at the Northern? Is it protected like it is at the Alfred?

2025-04-10 09:26:53 UTC

What are the advantages of doing your internship at the Northern and not a big four hospital?

2025-04-10 09:28:49 UTC

Paediatric Pathways

2025-04-10 09:29:44 UTC

Hello :) I am wondering how the change in internship will affect those paeds inclined? Also wondering how to best preference for a paeds pathway in the future. Basically wondering all things paeds minded. Thank you!

Do you get many opportunities to do procedural stuff at Northern?

2025-04-10 09:32:25 UTC

how many of the northern interns are from Monash?

2025-04-10 09:33:15 UTC

Surg at Northern

2025-04-10 09:34:48 UTC

What is surgery like at Northern?

When are paediatric rotations offered to Northern junior docs?

2025-04-10 09:34:57 UTC

2025-04-10 09:36:24 UTC

is it easy to get one-on-one time with consultants at northern?

How open are various big metro hospitals to taking in international students?

2025-04-10 09:36:36 UTC

International students

2025-04-10 09:42:35 UTC

I have found it very difficult to get any definitive information/ assistance regarding applying for internship as an international student. Is there any specific website/ webinar to support us? I was hoping to get more information regarding which hospitals are more open to supporting international students, potentially sponsoring them in future if needed, or even which hospitals clearly prefers permanent residents/ citizens? Thanks.

2025-04-10 09:47:48 UTC

how many of your fellow interns are from Monash? does RMH prefer unimelb students instead?

Rural rotations

2025-04-10 09:48:53 UTC

How did the rural rotations work? Do they provide or subsidise accomodation or do you have to find it yourself?

do you get to spend much time in theatre as a surg intern at rmh

2025-04-10 09:49:46 UTC

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Do you get paid for being on call, or only if you get called in?

any information on bpt and the pass/fail and bpt teaching please n ty

2025-04-10 09:57:30 UTC

2025-04-10 10:00:42 UTC

is RMH good for GP training?

how do Warragul's spec med intern rotations compare to those at larger rural sites like Bendigo?

2025-04-10 10:02:14 UTC

Have you worked at other sites in Monash health and how was it considering the locations can be far apart e.g. casey, clayton

2025-04-10 10:09:00 UTC

How is getting on anaesthetics like at monash?

2025-04-10 10:11:19 UTC

Rotation specialty lines

2025-04-10 10:13:33 UTC

Is it possible to send a photo of all the Monash lines that are available? And do these change year on year?

Would you recommended rural internship for gen surg inclined students? How would you balance the hands on chances in rural vs building good network in metro?

2025-04-10 10:15:04 UTC

are you provided with accommodation or have to find it yourself for warragul?

2025-04-10 10:15:41 UTC

General tips for surgically inclined ppl

2025-04-10 10:21:08 UTC

How is Monash for SET training?

2025-04-10 10:29:15 UTC

how much hands-on exposure do you get as an ICU intern at AWH?

2025-04-10 10:29:16 UTC

how hands on do you get to be compared to other hospitals?

It seems that PMCV would still like us to share our CV, references and give an interview despite them stating that it will not be accessible by health services until starting work. What do we think about this or have hospitals mentioned anything about this?

2025-04-10 10:32:30 UTC

Anaesthetics

2025-04-10 10:34:34 UTC

How likely are you to get onto the anaesthetics program if doing PGY2 at AWH

2025-04-10 10:35:25 UTC

how easy is it to get involved in research as an intern at AWH?

2025-04-10 10:35:55 UTC

what is accomodation like?

2025-04-10 10:36:35 UTC

do you use Victoria or NSW guidelines at AWH?

2025-04-10 10:38:50 UTC

can you get a lot of ONG and paediatrics exposure as an AWH intern?

2025-04-10 10:39:49 UTC

If you do anaesthetics training is it the dual training pathway with GP or can you do anaesthetics exclusively

how often do you get to scrub in as a ballarat surgical intern?

2025-04-10 10:44:40 UTC

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what sort of procedures did interns get to do in ED?

ED rotation

2025-04-10 10:46:01 UTC

Can you do the paeds ED rotation in intern year? And how easy is it to get it?

Does Ballarat provide any spots for Gen surg training? If so, how competitive is it to get into the program?

2025-04-10 10:47:49 UTC

2025-04-10 10:48:45 UTC

What training pathways are available at Ballarat? EG: how many BPT positions are there?

2025-04-10 10:54:48 UTC

What's the culture like at the hospital?

2025-04-10 10:55:31 UTC

Are there many positions given to people who are international?