Medical Retinal Fellow

Reference Number: 1060
Job Type: Full Time
Department: Medical Workforce

Description:
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is a world class specialist hospital in eye and ear care providing services across Victoria. As Australia’s only specialist eye, ear, nose and throat hospital, the Eye and Ear has been providing care for the senses for over 160 years. The Eye and Ear has almost 90 different outpatient clinics for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of vision and hearing loss and provides a 24-hour emergency eye and ear, nose and throat service.

Every year the Eye and Ear cares for nearly 200,000 patients, with over 136,000 outpatients, over 42,000 emergency patients and over 14,000 inpatients. The hospital recently completed a major redevelopment to create a modern internal structure and to improve access for patients, visitors and staff.

Our Vision

We will inspire and advance specialist eye and ENT care.

Our Mission

We improve health and wellbeing outcomes through excellence in:

1. Clinical Care

2. Teaching

3. Education

4. Research

5. Innovation

Our Values - Integrity, Inclusive and Accessible Care, Collaboration, Excellence

About the Role

Medical Retina Fellow

12-month Fixed Term Fulltime Position – commencing February 2026 and August 2026

The Medical Retina Unit has two fellowship positions starting February and August each year. The unit is headed by Dr Amy Cohn and there are twenty consultants attached to the unit, all of whom have completed subspecialty fellowship training in retina.

The Fellow attends one Medical Retina and two Ocular Immunology Clinics per week, and a weekly list of up to 12 patients requiring photocoagulation and a regular session for the injection of Lucentis and Avastin. Some lists are primarily designed for patients with diabetes requiring cataract surgery which may include indirect laser. The Fellow will have substantial exposure to digital angiography, OCT, intravitreal injections, photodynamic therapy and will also attend Vitreoretinal Surgery Outpatient clinic. The Fellow is involved with research and ongoing studies from the macular research unit at CERA.

In addition, there is a combined Medical Retina Fellowship (0.8 FTE at RVEEH, and 0.2 FTE at CERA), which is supervised by Professor Robyn Guymer (Head of Macular Research Unit) and Associate Professor Lyndell Lim (Head of Ocular Immunology Clinic). At least two sessions per week are dedicated to research and ongoing involvement with trials supervised by the Macular Research Unit and Clinical Trials Unit.

All three fellowships have a mixture of clinical and research responsibilities. And all fellows will be rostered to sessions in the hospital’s busy Emergency Department and will participate in after hours on-call.

Salary and conditions of employment for the clinical fellows will be in accordance with the Australian Medical Association (Victoria) Doctors-in-Training Agreement 2022-2026.

The Eye and Ear is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a work environment free from harassment or discrimination and to promoting cultural diversity and awareness in the workplace.

The Eye and Ear is a smoke free environment.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.

At The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, we are committed to supporting people with disability to gain employment and develop their careers; we encourage you to apply. If you would like further information about this role, please contact the hiring manager.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, a working with children check (if applicable) and evidence of vaccination status. All staff must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (3 doses) and for clinical staff, patient facing staff and staff working in clinical areas, it is a mandatory requirement to provide evidence of a current influenza vaccination.