Australian Medical Association - Victoria

Advancing the medical profession.

Advancing the health of all Victorians.

Mardi O’Keefe & Carolyn Speed

AMA Victoria – Professional Development and Careers

Medical internship match: Key steps & insights - 2021

The AMA Victoria Medical Careers Expo Is back in 2021!

A week long online event from the 26th of April to the 1st of May.• Presentations• Virtual booths• Panel discussions

AMA Victoria presentations: Resume writing, Career planning, Finalising applications & interviewing, Leadership skills for junior doctors…

For more information visit our website linked below.

https://amavic.eventsair.com/2021-medical-careers-expo

AMA VictoriaYour professional association

Professional development & careers:• Career coaching – 1-hr sessions & Interview training programs• Professional coaching, In-role coaching, & Leadership coaching programs

• Resources - https://www.amavic.com.au/careers-advice

Workplace relations advice: • Negotiate the EBA for doctors• Support you to manage issues at work• Ensure you receive correct entitlements• Understanding your workplace rights - providing representation

Wellbeing:• Peer Support Service• First Response Hotline

• Peer Visitor Program

Email us: careersadvisor@amavic.com.au

Things to note…

• There is a new Victorian Rural Preferential Allocation category (VRPA)

• Z Scores will not be generated by Universities, and will not be part of application

• Many hospitals have own requirements in addition to Allocation and Placement service

• Due to absence of z score your preference order is not 100% confidential this year

(PMCV to clarify this - particularly how this works with ability to reorder/delete)

• Health Services can request to know who has preference them in their top 3 or top 5

• Special consideration policy - PMCV

• Job share/part-time - PMCV

• Hospitals cannot close their application process early

• Photo on CV is optional

Key Steps 2021- Application

AMA Victoria Medical Career Expo – 26 April to 1 May

PMCV Intern Allocation and Placement Match Opens 4 May

Application close date (National Close Date) 3 June

Recorded online interview 4-6 June

Last day to withdraw or re-order/delete preferences Note: PMCV to confirm date.

Key Steps 2021- Selection Process and Match

Hospital Selection Process incl possible interview

Hospital Nomination Period

Round 1 Offers – VRPA priority 1 who have opted in to VRPA and VRPA priority 2 (5 July)

Round 2 Offers - Priority Group 1 including any unmatched VRPA priority group 1 (12 July)

Unmatched Priority 1 allocation round (From 12 July)

Round 3 Offers - Priority Group 2 including any unmatched VRPA priority 2 (Date TBA)

Round 4 Offers - Priority Group 3 (Date TBA)

Internship January 2022

Priority Groups* see PMCV website for more detail

VRPA – Priority 1 Graduates from a Victorian medical school holding Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency who elect to go into the VRPA round & VRPA priority group 2.

Priority Group 1 – Graduates from a Victorian medical school holding Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

VRPA Priority Group 2 – Australian permanent resident graduates from interstate medical schools who completed VCE or UNSW graduates who completed the last 2 years of clinical placement at Albury Wodonga Health Clinical School *only if they opt in to VRPA.

Priority Group 2 – Australian temporary resident graduates from a Victorian medical school, or interstate graduates who have been granted special consideration by PMCV.

Priority Group 3 – Australian permanent resident graduates of interstate or NZ medical schools, Australian temporary resident graduates of interstate or NZ medical schools, graduates of an overseas campus of an Australian/NZ university accredited by the Australian Medical Council (Monash University – Sunway Malaysia Campus and University of Qld Oschner campus)

Get organised…

↑ Maximize success

↓ Minimise stress

Get started

• Start to develop material for PMCV CV - Now!

• Prioritise top 3-5 preferences (Maximum 8) *new rules re Rural Preferential TBC

• Familiarise yourself with each hospital recruitment process / online careers portal

• Download position descriptions (Key Selection Criteria)

• Map work to be done and develop action plan

….....................GET STARTED..........................

Lots of Options…

14. Melbourne Health (78 +2)15. Mildura (5)16. Monash Health (111)17. Murray 2 Mountains (15)18. North East / Wangaratta (9)19. Northern Health (40)20. Peninsula Health (39)21. South West Healthcare (12)22. St Vincent's (61)23. Western Health(62)24. Portland (2)25. Werribee Mercy (5)

• Based on 2021 placements

1. Albury – Wodonga (15)2. Alfred Health (56)3. Austin Health (62)4. Bairnsdale (2)5. Ballarat (31)6. Barwon Health (43)7. Bendigo Health (39)8. Eastern Health (67)9. East Gippsland (5)10. Echuca RCIT (5)11. Gippsland GRIT (25)12. Goulburn Valley Health (32)13. Grampians RCIT (5 + 3 Cth)

The Recruitment Process 2019* 2020 was very different and 2021 will also be different

1. CV

Online form using PMCV standard categories

2. Cover letters for 2019

No: Alfred, Melbourne Health, Monash

Yes: Austin, Ballarat, Barwon, Bendigo, Eastern, East Gippsland, Echuca, Gippsland

Rural, Goulburn Valley, Grampians, Mildura, M2M, NE Wangaratta, Peninsula,

Southwest Healthcare, St Vincent’s, Western & Northern

* Make sure you know what they want included

The Recruitment Process 2019

3. No online application form / questions:

Bairnsdale, GRIT & Northeast Health Wangaratta

4. Non – Clinical Reference:

Albury Wodonga, Bairnsdale, Eastern, East Gippsland, Echuca, GRIT, Grampians (optional), Mildura, M2M (optional) & Northern Health

5. Minimum Z-Score:

A couple of hospitals declared – not relevant for 2022

6. Assessment:

Alfred and Ballarat

Completing the PMCV CV 2021*note it will be completed online in 2021 and can be modified up to the national closing date

Key sections of PMCV Online CV

Education & QualificationsClinical Placements

Employment Volunteering

Achievements & awardsResearch, publications & presentations

Leadership roles & extracurricular activitiesPersonal interests

Non-clinical referees

It is hard to do everything...well!

The Recruitment Process 2021

Interviews in 2021:

Each candidate will record one online interview on VidCruiter

- Different online interview tool from 2020

- All health services will have access to the recorded interview

- 2020 – each candidate answered 5 online interview questions

- This year? Possibly different selections from a pool of questions

Sample of 2020 online interview questions

1) What excites you most about internship and what do you want to achieve in the internship year?

2) What skills and attributes do you bring to internship and why are they important?

3) You are the intern and you accidentally give 10 times the dose of a medication to a patient. The patient is fine, what do you do now?

4) Tell us about the most productive team you have ever been a part of. What were the attributes of this team?

5) Are you interested in the Victorian Rural Generalist Program? Tell us your experience working rurally and about metro versus rural service delivery.

Past online written application questions

Albury - Wodonga

• Tell us about your achievements over the last 5 years?

• Why have you chosen to spend time in a regional hospital?

• Your thoughts on your long-term medical career accepting that as a grad you need to explore options and may not be able to nominate a particular pathway?

Alfred

• Please tell us why you wish to work as an intern at Alfred Health and what you can offer Alfred Health?

Bendigo

• As clinicians in Bendigo we are committed to our shared vision of healthy communities and world class healthcare. Our values as staff are that we are caring, passionate and trustworthy – how will you commit to share our vision as colleagues in term 1?

Past online written application questions

Peninsula Health

• Why do you wish to complete your intern year at Peninsula Health?

• Have you had student placements at Peninsula Health? If so when & where?

Southwest Healthcare

• Why do you want to undertake an intern year at SW Healthcare?

Northern Health

• At Northern Health, our sense of community is defined by our strong commitment to our values of being passionate, collaborative, dedicated and progressive in achieving our shared goals, and upholding our commitment to providing outstanding healthcare to our community. How might you express this commitment as a Northern Doctor?

• What are your expectations of completing your internship at Northern Health?

All questions have word limits...

Past online written application questions

Barwon Health

In 2015 - 2019 they asked you to answer 5 questions (300-500 words per question).

Questions were values based in a ‘Behavioural Event Interview’ format for example:

1. Describe a situation where your values, ideas and beliefs differed from the nurse looking after your patient. Explain what you did in this situation. What was the outcome?

2. You are working on ward X and notice that on most days a patient continuously falls. What would you do and what actions do you believe you need to take?

3. You are due to finish a shift at 9.30pm. Your colleague is due to replace you but doesn’t show up for work. You have a social commitment with your partner starting at 9.45pm. What do you do in this scenario?

What do hospitals/health services want to know?

What differentiates you?

Who are you? Your story!

Will you transition successfully to internship?

Are you ‘one of us’ - values / style?

Why do you want to join them?

What are your key strengths?

What are you passionate about?

What interests you?

What value will you bring?

Why should I hire you?

How do I want to be known? What are my strengths? What differentiates me?

• Educator

• Leader

• Researcher

• Advocate

• Professional

• Previous work experience

• Innovator

• Projects

• new initiatives

• change agent

• systems improvement

It is hard to do everything...well!

Find your story

What is your unique proposition?

Our engagement with the hospitals has repeatedly reinforced:

• Merit based system used by hospitals to rank candidates

• How you present on paper and interview is important

• They want to know about you, find your authenticity and unique proposition

• Tell them how you will succeed in the role – previous work experience is very

relevant, are you adaptable and reliable?

• Preference in order of where you would most prefer to work

Reference checks

Since 2016 you can not shop around for your referees.

Select your referees carefully:

• Ask them to be a referee

• Reference form updated to apply to internship (no longer a standard form)

• Download reference form and ask them if they can answer these questions about you. They will be sent a link to the form to complete

• Once they have submitted a reference you can not change referees

Preferencing changes

• Health services have requested the ability to filter their candidate list to show candidates who have nominated that health service within their top 3 or top 5 preferences.

Reason for change: Due to the lack of the intern z-score this year this year

• However –Your actual preference order (1-8) will not be disclosed to health services – it will just be ‘the health service is in your top 3 or top 5’.

• You will still be able to reorder or delete health services from your preferences list up to a set deadline before the match runs

Things to remember

Assess options / preferences

• Aspirational versus Realistic

• Merit based evaluation criteria - differs between hospitals

Research hospitals

• What are they known for? Be specific – programs, support …

• What are their values?

• What do they value in their interns?

• What is their intern recruitment process?

• How many intern places?

• What information do they value? What might this tell you?

Australian Medical Association – Victoria• Professional Association for Doctors

• Peak representative Body

• Membership organisation

• Uniquely coupled with the union for doctors.

• Independent of government and hospitals.

• Power comes from numbers.

The Enterprise Agreement covers things like:

• How much you get paid

• Leave (when/how much)

• Claiming overtime

• Training Time

• Dispute resolution

Starting salaries for interns:

2017 - $66263.60

2018 - $72228.00

2019 - $74396.40

2020 - $76627.20

2021 – $78925.60

2022 – We are currently negotiating

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