2025 Monash Health Breast Focused Women's Imaging Fellowship

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To help grow your career, there are more than 1,900 Junior and 1,700 Senior Doctors at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties. We offer unparallel opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service. 

Monash BreastScreen and Monash Health Imaging invite applications from qualified medical practitioners, registered in Australia, for two 12-month full time positions for breast focused Women’s Imaging Fellowship positions. 

The Fellowship positions are most suitable for senior Radiology Trainees or recent graduates who would like to develop subspecialty expertise in Breast and Women’s Imaging, with experience gained through rotating between Monash BreastScreen and Monash Health Imaging, Women’s Imaging Division.  

Our professional teams foster an innovative, respectful and positive team-based culture. A passion for excellence is encouraged to enable professional development for the successful candidate. 

About Monash Health Imaging 

Imaging at Monash Health incorporates a full range of services including CT, US, MRI, DEXA, PET, Nuclear Medicine, X-Ray, Lithotripsy, OPG, Mammography, Fluoroscopy and Interventional and Therapeutic imaging services at the Monash Medical Centre - Clayton; Monash Children's Hospital, Clayton; Dandenong Hospital, Dandenong; Casey Hospital, Berwick; Moorabbin Hospital, Bentleigh East; Kingston Centre, Cheltenham and the Pakenham Health Centre, Pakenham. Imaging also supports the Monash University Biomedical Imaging site including MRI and PET MRI. The service provides over 365,000 imaging examinations per year across all sites, currently employs approximately 500 EFT and has a gross operating budget in excess of $100M. 

Monash Health Imaging Women’s Division is lead by subspeciality Radiologists who are passionate about improving health outcomes in women.  The breast subspeciality offers the full complement of multi-modality breast imaging including Contrast Enhanced Mammography (CEM), mammography with tomosynthesis, breast MRI, breast ultrasound, breast biopsies under CEM-guidance, tomosynthesis-guidance, and breast MRI-guidance and ultrasound-guidance, and breast pre-operative localisations under ultrasound and mammography, all based at the Moorabbin Hospital site.  Casey site offers mammography with tomosynthesis and breast ultrasound, and mammo-guided and ultrasound-guided breast biopsies and pre-operative localisations. CEM implementation at Casey site is imminent. 

Obstetrics and gynaecologic imaging is also within the Women’s Imaging Division, offering tertiary level obstetric and gynaecologic ultrasound, gynaecologic MRI and fetal MRI. The Monash Health Imaging program clearly defines its mission as the delivery of leading edge, evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic imaging services and research and education that meets the needs of our community and employees. Our proposed vision is to relentlessly pursue excellence and be a beacon within imaging and be the prime provider and destination of choice for our community, referrers, researchers, educational institutions, employees and students. 

About Monash BreastScreen 

Monash BreastScreen is one of the largest BreastScreen Reading and Assessment Services (RAS) in Victoria. It provides screening, mammographic reading and assessment services for over 60,000 women per year in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. The RAS is located at Moorabbin hospital. There are eight fixed screening sites plus a mobile screening service that visits several locations in the catchment. More than 3000 women are recalled to the multidisciplinary assessment clinic for further imaging each year. As part of Monash Breast Services, Monash BreastScreen is a key component of an integrated continuum of multidisciplinary care for women from screening and diagnosis through assessment of symptoms, diagnosis and management of breast cancer and benign breast disease. 

About the Role 

This Fellowship provides intensive training in breast imaging suitable for a candidate who has a keen interest in breast imaging, population-based cancer screening, diagnosis, management and post treatment follow-up surveillance. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal are essential. The fellow should be competent to work unsupervised in any screening or diagnostic mammography setting, performing US-guided and tomosynthesis-guided breast biopsies and pre-operative localisation procedures, and have experience in reporting breast MRI and performing MRI-guided breast biopsies at the completion of the Fellowship. A project which assists learning and serves to demonstrate the Fellow’s breast imaging skills is expected. 

• You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide safe and effective person-centred care, provide teaching and supervision of resident medical staff and students, and undertake training towards attaining Fellowship of the relevant College (if applicable). You will be required to undertake patient assessment and management in consultation with the treating consultant and patient care co-ordination.  
• The BreastScreen rotation is completed at Moorabbin Hospital.  The Monash Health Imaging position is based across all Monash Health campuses, but mainly Moorabbin Hospital and Casey Campus. Participation in the evening and weekend roster is expected during the Monash Health Imaging rotation. 

About You 

You will: 

• Demonstrate a commitment to profession-led regulation. 

• Demonstrate a high level commitment to ethical practice. 

• Demonstrate an ability to effectively manage matters of patient safety and quality of care. 

• Understand the role of the relevant college and the associated expectations of the registrar role. 

12 month applications preferred but 6 month applications will be considered.

Referee Request: 

As part of your application, please complete the referee request form at least twice (preferably three times) to ensure we receive a minimum of two references. 

Request Referee Details: Referee Request Form

Once you submit the form, an automated request will be sent to each referee. You will receive an email notification when a referee has submitted their reference. 

Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure your referees complete their submissions before the application deadline. Reference responses will be considered as part of your application.

For all enquiries regarding this position please contact:

Dr Brooke Sawyer - Brooke.Sawyer@monashhealth.org

Dr Jill Evans - jevans@breastscreen.org.au

Dr Xavier Yu - Xavier.Yu@monashhealth.org

For a confidential discussion, please contact Monique Moretti, JMS R&C Coordinator on (03) 9594 2705.

Position Description can be found here

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’ 

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date. 

Applications close 29th April, 2025.