2025

Great placement overall. Very chill hospital, staff and patients. The RMO job includes daily review of vitals, ordering bloods and investigations as needed (usually once a week as it's a subacute unit), ward rounds notes and discharge summaries / medications. Apparently it can get busy at times but it wasn't so in my case so in downtime can join AH for stroke etc groups. IT system is HNE specific and a bit of a pain compared to powerchart but easy to grasp. Pathology comes to the hospital to collect bloods as needed. There is no imaging or other investigation available so patients need to be transferred to Manning Base for that. Anyone who becomes unwell usually goes to Manning ED as well. Accommodation is provided by the hospital in a unit a few streets over. It's a 2 bedroom unit with full kitchen. Household supplies like toilet paper / dish soap / soap / laundry detergent seem a bit hit or miss and mostly leftover from previous docs. It's dated but spacious and convenient and has free WiFi. I would definitely recommend this job to anyone looking for a bit slower term and /or wanting to find out more about rehab. The consultant comes for rounds everyday except Wednesday and is very keen to discuss cases. There's also a weekly lecture at the Newcastle Uni base in Taree right next to the Manning Hospital. There is no cafe at the hospital but a lovely guy in a coffee van comes twice weekly (orders need to be sent by text). The town itself is rather boring and during my placement a lot of places were closed post floods (Coles, gym). Nearby Taree has all the needed shops and Old Bar Beach is about 30mins drive.