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Position:
Breast & General Surgical Fellow
Level:
Second Year
Location:
124 Shakespeare Road, Takapuna, Auckland
Contact:
Dr Katherine Gale
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The Breast Fellowship offers the fellow the opportunity to work in one of New Zealand’s busiest breast and general surgical services. The successful applicant will be exposed to a broad range of breast disease, benign and malignant. The unit sees 420+ new breast surgery cases per annum.
Multidisciplinary meetings for breast are twice a week, symptomatic and screening. Opportunity exists to work in the screening programme. The unit is served by 7 breast surgeons with 16 general surgeons in total. The service has links with Middlemore Hospital’s Plastic Surgical Unit. Breast reconstruction is performed at North Shore Hospital, and there is ample exposure to all types of breast reconstruction (expander implant and flap). Level 2 oncoplastic procedures are performed regularly.
This fellowship is linked with an exposure to Endocrine (Thyroid/ Parathyroid/ Adrenal), melanoma, head and neck surgery, and general surgery, so is suitable to those that want to continue with general surgery.
An on-call commitment for general surgery is expected. The fellow will staff the acute theatre and take surgical admissions every fourth Friday (there are 3 other fellows in other subspecialties) with the backup of a senior colleague.
There is a service commitment to LA skin cancer. The fellow is expected to conduct ward rounds with junior staff (including advanced trainees in general surgery), and be involved with teaching of junior staff. There is ample opportunity to conduct research.
Unit Consultants – Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
Dr Katherine Gale, Head of Unit, PFT Supervisors
Dr Susan Gerred
Dr Richard Harman
Dr Eva Juhasv
Dr Michael Russell
Dr Kate Rapson
Dr Christina Yu
Breast Oncoplastic Surgery:
Partial mastectomy including localisation, mastectomy, Level 1 oncoplastic techniques, Level 2 oncoplastic techniques e.g. LICAP, LD
Breast Reconstruction Surgery:
Nipple sparing mastectomy, skin sparing mastectomy, therapeutic mammoplasty +/- symmetrising, nipple reconstruction, mastectomies with free nipple grafts, implant and tissue expanders, liposuction and fat grafting
General and Other Surgery:
Yes (General surgery on call and general surgery operating ability is a requirement. Exposure to endocrine, skin & melanoma is available. There is some flexibility to tailor the fellowship to include more endocrine or more melanoma depending on the Fellow. Sarcoma surgeon, Mr Mike Russell does cases both at Waitemata and Auckland H
Breakdown of hours:
General surgery on call once per 4-5 weeks on a Friday. Take patients under own name with SMO back-up if required.
Private Consulting:
Infrequent
MDT:
Breast: weekly, Fellow presents patients | Melanoma: typically fortnightly, Fellow presents patients
Academic & Research:
Yes - A research project is expected
Funded:
1 year FTE role commencing early February 2027
Salary:
Position Classification: Breast Surgery Fellow | Base Salary plus $16,000 CME and +0.03 FTE for oncall (no additional call back etc. as loaded into salary)
Further Information:
- Skin, General, all subspecialties in wider unit. - Fellow attends BreastScreen for educational purpose 1 - 2 times per month.
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