Completing your Intern year at Grampians Health Ballarat will ensure you will experience hands on learning in a supportive and well supervised environment.
You will be a highly valued member of the team with excellent consultant contact time and high expectations with respect to your medical education and skills development. Our senior medical staff are committed to providing training opportunities and support career development of junior doctors.
At Grampians Health Ballarat we see diverse medicine. We are large enough to deal with complex and high acuity patients.
Intern Rotations Available
Grampians Health Ballarat offers 35 Intern positions at the acute and sub-acute sites in Ballarat in 2024.
Each Intern will complete five rotations that meet the requirements of the AMC National Framework for Prevocational Medical Training:
- General medicine
- General surgery
- Emergency medicine
- Geriatrics
- Rehabilitation
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- Orthopaedics
- ENT
Training Programs
Learn more about our training pathways view our Prevocational Training Overview and our Medical Training Pathway Overview
Medical Career Pathways at Grampians Health
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How to Apply
Applications must be made via the PMCV match. Grampians Health Ballarat will be participating in the Victorian Rural Preferential Allocation (VRPA) Intern Match process through the PMCV.
If you are eligible to apply for an Intern position, you must register with the PMCV. If you are not applying via the VRPA match, you will then need to apply to both the PMCV and to BHS directly via the Mercury eRecruit Website
2024 Internship Applications Key Dates:
The PMCV Allocation and Placement Service (ASP) Intern Match Schedule of Dates 2023
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Monday 8 May |
Match Applications Open |
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Thursday 8 June |
Match Applications Close |
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Friday 9 June |
Health Service position numbers released PMCV to release document detailing distribution of health service positions to be included in the VRPA, Priority Group 1 and Priority Group 2 allocation rounds, respectively |
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Friday 9 June – Sunday 11 July |
Video Interviews |
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Monday 12 June – Sunday 2 July |
Health Services Assessment and Selection Process |
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Monday 17 July |
VPRA results published |
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Wednesday 19 July |
Priority Group 1 published |
Priority group 1 unmatched and Priority group 2 and 3 round dates TBA – refer to the PMCV website
Tips for applying to Grampians Health Ballarat
- Cover letters should be addressed to Junior Medical Workforce Manager - Mr David Channon
- Make yourself familiar with the Grampians Health Ballarat core values
- As part of Grampians Health Ballarat application process, you will be asked to answer some questions 'Why Grampians Health Ballarat?' and Why Ballarat?' - make sure you put some time into answering these.
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Testimonials
“There are lots of reasons to Intern at Ballarat. Good exposure and good contact with senior staff. Able to work autonomously and gain actual experience” – 2020 Intern
“Varied experience but supported and appreciated whilst you are doing it” – 2020 Intern
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