JMO Training (Interns and RMOs)
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Junior Medical Officer (JMO) Training Program
Junior Medical Officer (JMO) Training Program
The Junior Medical Officer program is run over the course of the ten weeks that PGY1s and PGY2s spend with us in Hunter New England Mental Health Service. This program is videoconferenced to several sites around the Area to ensure that JMOs who are unable to come to the Mater Hospital site are able to link into the program. After an orientation program where the JMOs get a copy of the psychotropic guidelines, a Medical Officer Handbook and many other useful resources, JMOs are oriented to their specific ward and taken through an introduction to mental state assessment and the management of patients in the inpatient setting by their supervisor. JMOs are also appointed registrar mentors who observe the JMOs conducting interviews and gradually move them towards managing some of their own patients during the course of their ten week stay with us.
The teaching program itself runs on a Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 5pm and focuses on offering JMOs the opportunity to expand their knowledge base in areas such as Mental State Examination, Psychopharmacology, the Mental Health Act and assessment of dangerousness. The last session is an exit interview where we monitor the quality of our program and modify the program to best suit the needs of our JMOs.
- JMO Education Program - Term 2, 2012 (2 April 2012 to 17 June 2012) (pdf) 50K
- Download the JMO Quick Starter Guide here (pdf) 211K
- HNE JMO Term Supervisors Handbook (pdf) 2MB
- CETI "The Doctor's Compass - A Guide to Prevocational Training"
JMO Journal Club
Dr Ashwinder Anand meets with psychiatry JMOs once a fortnight on a Friday at 3.30pm at the Mater Hospital (MHA building) Level 4 to discuss a journal article.
JMO Group Supervision
Dr Yolandie Goodyear holds a JMO Group Supervision session on a fortnightly basis on Friday at 3.30pm, alternating with the Journal Club (above). Meet at 3.30pm at the Mater Hospital (MHA Building, Level 4).
HNET eLearning Centre
We have an online resource available to utilise that is intended as an additional learning platform for JMOs to supplement the JMO training.
Visit the HNET eLearning centre at 
. Click here for help in accessing the HNET Psychiatry MyLink resource.
Any of our doctors are welcome to use it and it also meets the HSP (Hospitalist Skills Program) Level 1 for mental health.
JMO Term Descriptions
- Newcastle Unit (inpatient) Mental Health Centre - PGY 1 and 2 (pdf) 80K
- Lake Macquarie Unit (inpatient) Mental Health Centre - PGY1 and 2 (pdf) 82K
- Mental Health Unit for Older People (inpatient) Mental Health Centre - PGY 1 or 2 (pdf) 77K
- Consultation Liaison John Hunter Hospital - PGY2 (pdf) 79K
- Mental Health & Substance Use Unit (inpatient) Mental Health Centre - PGY 1 or 2 (pdf) 83K
- Hunter Valley Mental Health Service (inpatient) MMHU - PGY1 and 2 (pdf) 63K
- Tamworth Banksia (inpatient) - PGY1 and 2 (pdf) 84K
- Armidale Clark Centre (inpatient/community) - PGY2 (pdf) 79K
- Manning - Taree MHIU (inpatient/community) - PGY2 (pdf) 84K
- Newcastle Mental Health Service - GP PGY1 (pdf) 78K
HNAPP (for Interns and RMOs)
The Hunter New England Accelerated Psychiatry Program is the only program in Australia which has been designed to permit PGY1 and PGY2 doctors to pursue maximum exposure to psychiatry and related mental health terms whilst still undertaking the required exposure to general medical terms at the prevocational level. The program is suitable for junior doctors who are considering a future career in psychiatry and involves undertaking one 10 week term in psychiatry in PGY1 and two x 10 week terms in psychiatry in PGY2 as well as the appointment of a psychiatry trainee as mentor across PGY1 and 2, social activities and additional educational exposure to mental health education.
Psychiatry terms for PGY1 and 2 are highly educational and well supervised, involve managing your own small caseload of patients within a multidisciplinary team and cover a range of experiences, including Acute Adult, Community, Dual Diagnosis, Psychogeriatrics and Consultation Liaison. The program commenced officially in 2008 with 6 PGY1s and so far 10 junior medical staff have completed the program with a significant number of these doctors having gone on to take up psychiatry training posts.
- Click here to download information on the exciting new HNAPP program! (pdf) 430K
- Click here to download the HNAPP Fact Sheet (pdf) 58K
If you would like to discuss the program, please contact Dr Harsimrat Sandhu (Director Prevocational Education & Training) or Dr Martin Cohen (Director of Training), who will be pleased to have a chat with you about what is on offer. If you could attach a brief CV when you contact the above, that would be helpful.
Current HNAPPers are:-
Interns
Dr Josef McDonald (mentor: Dr Stephen Stanhope)
Dr Kathryn Teh (mentor: Dr Sally Lambert)
Dr Jai Nathani (mentor: Dr Lindsay Gale)
Dr Anna Levinson (mentor: Dr Jennifer Macks)
RMOs
Dr Su Lynn Cheah (mentor: Dr Michelle Johnstone)
Dr Craig Roberts-Thomson (mentor: Dr Adith Mohan)
Dr Andrew Williams (mentor: Dr Ashwinder Anand)
Dr Brenton McKewin (mentor: Dr Peter Kenne)
Dr Melissa Collogan (mentor: Dr Alison Moffatt)