Medical Imaging Fellowships
The Radiology department at Fiona Stanley Hospital also provides services to Fremantle Hospital, Rockingham and Murray District hospitals (external site). Our consultants represent a variety of subspecialty interests and are focussed on high quality service delivery and training.
In addition to radiology registrar training, the department offers a variety of subspecialty fellowship positions, as outlined below. These typically run over one year, starting in February and August.
In addition to subspecialty reporting and training, fellows are also expected to perform general radiology reporting and procedures, allowing some scope for tailoring exposure according to individual preferences. The fellow will participate in the registrar/fellow on call roster and in registrar teaching.
There is a collegial atmosphere within the department, and a good working relationship with our clinical colleagues is valued.
Who can apply
Applications are welcomed from local and international graduates who hold fellowships with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) or equivalent international qualification, and who have, or will have, completed specialist training upon commencement of the program.
Submit an expression of interest
Please send an email with your CV and expressing your subspecialty area of interest.
Annual recruitment process
Positions available in the following year are formally advertised in February on MedJobsWA (external site). Applications typically close end of March.
Fellowship opportunities
The Body and Abdominal Radiology Fellowship is based at Fiona Stanley Hospital with exposure to a wide range of acute and chronic pathology managed by the Emergency, Surgical and Urological departments.
There are also subspecialty services managing upper GIT, colorectal and hepatic-pancreatic-biliary surgery.
The fellow will have exposure to ultrasound, CT and MRI abdominal imaging reporting.
There is an opportunity to undertake Tier A interventions (biopsy and drainages) under supervision.
Participation in multidisciplinary meetings is encouraged with weekly gastroenterology, general surgery, colorectal, oncology, urology, ICU, upper GI surgery and prostate cancer MDTs held at Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH).
The fellowship also encompasses time reporting general radiology work including:
- plain film radiography
- fluoroscopy
- ultrasound
- CT
- MRI.
Fellows are also included in the after-hours roster covering emergency reporting evening, night and weekend shifts which is shared evenly between the approximately 7 fellows, 8 registrars and 2 senior registrars in the department.
This 12-month fellowship is based at the Breast Assessment Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital. Candidates will be exposed to a large volume and variety of breast imaging cases to gain familiarity with the diseases encountered in clinical practice, including:
- becoming competent at reading diagnostic mammography and tomosynthesis images
- performing breast ultrasound and ultrasound guided breast biopsies
- breast MRI reporting
- stereotactic breast biopsies
- biopsy marker clip placements
- hook wire and seed localisations prior to surgery.
The Breast Fellow is actively involved with the Breast multidiscplinary team meeting, Breast Journal Club and is encouraged to engage in breast radiology research.
The fellowship also encompasses time reporting general radiology work including:
- plain film radiography
- fluoroscopy
- ultrasound
- CT
- MRI.
Fellows are also included in the after-hours roster covering emergency reporting evening, night and weekend shifts which is shared evenly between the approximately 7 fellows, 8 registrars and 2 senior registrars in the department.
This fellowship is largely based at Fiona Stanley Hospital with occasional rotation to Fremantle and Rockingham General hospitals.
The fellowship provides exposure to a wide range of chest and cardiovascular related imaging, including:
- CT coronary angiography
- non-coronary cardiovascular CT angiography, for example TAVI and pulmonary vein (PV) ablation planning
- chest CT scans for lung cancer, nodule surveillance, lung and cardiac transplant, oncology, trauma, and HRCT chest
- cardiac and thoracic/mediastinal MRI
- MR angiography
- CT guided lung and thoracic biopsies.
Participation in various multidisciplinary meetings is actively encouraged and these involve:
- weekly respiratory medicine meeting
- weekly multidisciplinary lung cancer meeting
- regular interstitial lung disease meeting
- weekly cardiology meeting.
The fellowship also encompasses time reporting general radiology work including:
- plain film radiography
- fluoroscopy
- ultrasound
- CT
- MRI.
Fellows are also included in the after-hours roster covering emergency reporting evening, night and weekend shifts which is shared evenly between the approximately 7 fellows, 8 registrars and 2 senior registrars in the department.
Fiona Stanley Hospital offers a 12-month Interventional Radiology Fellowship with exposure to vascular and non-vascular interventional image-guided procedures. There is a large volume of endovascular interventions ranging from:
- vascular access procedures
- dialysis fistula interventions
- IVC filter placement and removal
- trans-jugular liver biopsies
- thrombolysis
- TIPS.
Some examples of the vascular embolisation procedures performed include:
- gastro-intestinal bleed embolisation
- renal tumour embolisation (angiomyolipoma, pre-operative renal cell carcinoma), prostate embolisation, uterine embolisation
- varicocoele embolisation
- visceral aneurysmal disease
- hepatic radioembolisation (SIRT).
Peripheral arterial angioplasty and stenting are performed less frequently.
Non-vascular interventions include:
- percutaneous transhepatic biliary intervention
- radiologically inserted gastrostomy
- nephrostomy insertion
- ureteric stent insertion
- percutaneous microwave tumour ablations.
- drain placement/management and diagnostic fluoroscopy
- vertebroplasties.
There are 7 fellowship trained interventional radiologists employed within the department on a sessional basis.
The interventional radiology fellow is rostered to the interventional suite for all of their regular day shifts. They are also included in the after-hours roster for evening, weekend and night emergency reporting, shared evenly between the approximately 7 fellows, 8 registrars and 2 senior registrars in the department.
A one year fellowship position in MRI with excellent exposure to a variety of surgical and medical pathology is offered at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
Core disciplines of the fellowship are in the neurological, head and neck, body and musculoskeletal fields, with the option of some exposure to cardiac MRI.
Supervising radiologists are sub-specialty trained.
The fellowship comprises of 6–7 sessions of MRI and 2–3 sessions of general radiology per week, as well as a weekly academic/administration session.
There is access to a variety of multidisciplinary meetings each week.
This fellowship offers exposure to a wide range of musculoskeletal pathology across Fiona Stanley Hospital, Fremantle and Rockingham General hospitals.
This includes MRI, ultrasound, CT and a variety of imaging guided procedures.
There are opportunities to participate in multidisciplinary meetings, including weekly orthopaedic grand rounds, and the potential to be involved in research projects.