WestMed Basic Physician Training (BPT) Network - AMR 2027 - Applications close 04/08/2026
Employment Type: Temporary Various
Remuneration: - $117,745 - $147,664
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM29667
Western Sydney Local Health District is growing - Grow your career with us!
An exciting opportuntiy exists to join the WestMed Basic Physician Training (BPT) Network as a Basic Physician Trainee
The WestMed Basic Physician Training (BPT) Network may offer 1 or 2-year contracts (as required for completion of basic training) to applicants who have completed their time in an accredited BPT role. All other applicants will be offered 3-year contracts, subject to change, with final rankings from the application process and service provision requirements determining the length of training contract that will be offered.
Previous or current registration with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) in non-BPT roles, does not guarantee a 2-year contract.
Please note that once a BPT offer has been accepted, any application submitted for subsequent-round BPT positions, during the 2027 AMR campaign, will not be considered, for as long as that offer is held.
Where you'll be working
The Westmead Hospital is known for its comprehensive and highly specialised services provided to the Western Sydney community, statewide and nationally. Westmead Hospital is a member of the Westmead Health and Education Super Precinct, with close relationships to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, the University of Sydney, the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, and the Children’s Medical Research Institute. Currently undergoing a multimillion-dollar rebuilding program, Westmead Hospital with its partners will be one of the largest health, education, research and training precincts in Australia.
The WestMed BPT Network has training positions in Westmead Hospital; Blacktown Hospital; Hornsby Hospital and Orange Hospital. All are teaching hospitals affiliated with Sydney University and UWS. Our metropolitan sites are busy with exposure to a wide variety of presentations and patient populations. Our rural site offers tremendous opportunity to see a diverse range of clinical medicine where you will start to develop the key decision-making and clinical judgement skills of a physician.
Our training program targets your clinical skills and your professional skills. We provide a supportive environment that facilitates your learning and gets you ready to meet the challenges of your career and the RACP exams. We offer a comprehensive program which supplements your own study program, as well as a mentorship program and other learning opportunities. We take education and training seriously and value the same from our trainees.
What you'll be doing
The primary purpose of the Basic Physician Trainee (BPT) is to provide effective medical services to patients under supervision, while developing expertise in medical practice in a complex clinical environment in inpatient and outpatient areas in the public health organisations within the Network.
Basic Physician Training roles consist of rotations through medical departments, working under an appropriate level of supervision by consultants. Rotations have different levels of responsibility and team structures. BPTs will gain increasing clinical autonomy and accountability as team leaders throughout the course of the three-year training program, building on their skills and attributes with the goal of entering an Advanced Training program.
BPTs undertaking the care of medical patients should ensure that they operate within their own level of expertise within a collaborative clinical care model and to seek consultation with the treating physician when appropriate, in the following activities:
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Clinically assess patients, incorporating consultation/history taking, examination, and formulation of a differential diagnosis and management plans
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Discuss diagnoses and management plans with patients and their families or carers
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Document the progress of patients in multiple settings
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Prescribe medications tailored to patients’ needs and conditions
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Transfer care of patients
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Choose, organise and interpret investigations
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Assess and manage acutely unwell patients
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Plan, prepare for, perform, and provide after care for important procedures
