RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICERS' UNIT

General Medicine

The Department of General Medicine deals with approximately 10,000 acute admissions per year. These are cared for by twelve acute medical teams each with a group of consultants, a medical registrar, and a house officer. Trainee Interns from the Christchurch School of Medicine are often assigned to these teams. Two acute teams are on every 24 hours and thus the teams work a 1 in 6 roster.

Almost all the house officers and all the registrars do some defined sub-specialty work ranging from dermatology to oncology and gastroenterology to respiratory medicine. All the General Medicine consultants do sub-specialty work.

The Department of General Medicine interfaces with all Internal Medicine departments but is developing closer links with Health Care of the Elderly.

For further information please contact

Dr David Jardine, Clinical Director, telephone (64 3) 378 6010
email David.Jardine@cdhb.govt.nz