Sydney Local Health District

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StateNSW
TypepublicNSW Health LHD (metro)
Platformtaleo
Modified MonashMM 1metro
Intern accreditedyes
Hospitals5Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Canterbury Hospital…
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Royal Prince Alfred Hospital · Concord Repatriation General Hospital · Canterbury Hospital · Balmain Hospital · Sydney Dental Hospital

HETI Network 1 = RPA + Dubbo (cross-LHD with WNSWLHD). Network 3 = Concord + Canterbury + Broken Hill Base (cross-LHD with FWLHD). ~100 interns/yr.

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Post Graduate Fellow - General Surgery - TCH (Apply via eCredential)Sydney Local Health District · Canterbury Hospital, Campsie, NSWAccredited regGeneral surgery21 Sept

Matched by employer and hospital name (6 terms), hospital town and platform tenant within NSW; ads printed under a parent body may be missing and similar-named neighbours may leak in. Interns hidden.

What r/ausjdocs says about Sydney Local Health District

162 substantive mentions from 137 authors, 2022–2026, hand-read by theme. Community view, not policy; stance splits only at n ≥ 30; a claim under three authors is a single report, not a verdict. Retrieved 12 Sept 2026.

Feeder jobs and streams: 57 authors; 1 cautionary, 0 positive, 72 neutral or mixed (n=73)

No claim reached the three-author bar.

The memo from SLHD chief executive Deb Wilcox outlines psychiatry registrars are to be called only in two circumstances overnight “following executive en­dorsement”.

u/ausclinpsychologist · Jan 2025 · NSW · comment

Most unaccredited anaesthetic registrars are tacked with a bunch of ICU service provision (think Ryde, Canterbury unaccredited) - you're almost doing that already.

u/Chengus · flair:anaesthetic reg · Feb 2024 · NSW · comment
Term quality and supervision: 32 authors; 1 cautionary, 1 positive, 33 neutral or mixed (n=35)
Teaching and supervision are good 1 supporting · 0 contradicting · single report comment ↗
Service-heavy; teaching or supervision is thin 1 supporting · 2 contradicting · single report comment ↗

Senior doctors lead psychiatry training in major teaching hospitals, including the Prince of Wales, Royal Prince Alfred, St George, Northern Beaches, Macquarie and Campbelltown hospitals in Sydney, and Lismore Base and Wyong hospitals in regional NSW.

u/ausclinpsychologist · Feb 2025 · NSW · comment

Objectively I got pretty lucky with a metro hospital that has a good reputation for teaching and culture, but I’m still a bit bummed because I was really hoping for RPA.

u/DrDiagnonsense · flair:med student · July 2024 · NSW · comment
How they recruit: 29 authors; 0 cautionary, 1 positive, 31 neutral or mixed (n=32)
Prefers its own — hires internally for the jobs below 2 supporting · 0 contradicting · single report comment ↗ 2 ↗

I recently heard about an intern at RPA who did a external jugular cannulation in ED with out supervision, got in trouble then did it again.

u/CladiaConstantine · flair:sho · Nov 2023 · NSW · comment

Going to pull you up on RPA ICU - they are extremely supportive for resitters but it does require the trainees to put in the extra time that is literally *offered* to them by the senior medical staff.

u/Ripley_and_Jones · flair:consultant · Aug 2026 · NSW · comment
Red flags and praise: 8 authors; 8 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

Lastly, getting a reg job the following year in Sydney will be easier from RPA, and they will have had very useful insight into the culture at RPA and whether they want to stay there as a registrar, or move elsewhere.

u/AussieFIdoc · self:registrar,flair:anaesthetist · Oct 2023 · NSW · comment

If you’re happy moving back and forth then I’d take the Wagga job, especially if an Anesthesia term matters to you, otherwise I’d go RPA

u/Peastoredintheballs · flair:med student · Oct 2023 · NSW · comment
Accommodation and rural conditions: 6 authors; 6 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

The two things that would impact me would be No anaesthetics term at RPA vs relocating to Wagga and making friends there only to then move back to the city after a year or 2 for reg jobs.

u/Peastoredintheballs · flair:med student · Oct 2023 · NSW · comment

There are INR Fellows working at Westmead/Royal North Shore/Royal Prince Alfred/Prince of Wales/Liverpool/ in Sydney, and John Hunter in regional NSW.

u/all_your_pH13 · Mar 2025 · NSW · comment
Exam pass-rate claims (hearsay): 5 authors; 5 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
Reported high exam pass rate (hearsay — nobody sources a figure) 1 supporting · 0 contradicting · single report comment ↗

Then the prep course about 3 months before the exam was useful too - either RPA, Deltamed or Dunedin.

u/Prestigious-Ad-312 · July 2023 · NSW · comment

This will be easier at RPA as there’s established primary teaching.

u/AussieFIdoc · self:registrar,flair:anaesthetist · Oct 2023 · NSW · comment
When you usually hear: 2 authors; 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

Overtime and pay-claim culture: 2 authors; 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

If you work at the legal equivalent of RPA/RMH the firm is pretty likely to pay for all of your further specialization, even Masters degrees as long as you stay.

u/assatumcaulfield · flair:anaesthetist · Aug 2024 · NSW · comment

Units people rate

RPA BPT · 12 authorsRPA ED · 7 authorsConcord BPT · 6 authorsRPA ICU SRMO · 5 authorsRPA anaesthetics · 3 authorsConcord anaesthetics SRMO · 3 authorsConcord ED · single report (2 authors)RPA radiology SRMO · single report (2 authors)Canterbury ICU unaccredited reg · single report (2 authors)Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ED · single report (2 authors)Concord radiology SRMO · single report (2 authors)
Read the verdicts on 11 units (under three authors it is one person's experience)
RPA BPT Physician training (BPT / general medicine) · 12 authors · 13 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
Well regarded and openly selective — 'cherry pick their BPT applicants year on year' — but externals do get in; several authors name friends who started BPT there after interning elsewhere.
RPA ED Emergency medicine · 7 authors · 7 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
A job the sub tracks rather than rates: one comparison says the case mix is thinner than Liverpool's, one author would never work there because of the personalities, and no one contradicts either.
Concord BPT Physician training (BPT / general medicine) · 6 authors · 6 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
The sleeper. 'Isn't a big hospital but has a great BPT program', and the hospital the corpus names for light workloads that leave study time and high pass rates.
RPA ICU SRMO Intensive care · 5 authors · 8 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
The benchmark NSW ICU SRMO job — it is the one every 'X vs Y' post compares against. Nobody says a bad word and nobody writes a review.
RPA anaesthetics Anaesthetics · 3 authors · 3 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
Named as one of the two big Sydney anaesthetics hubs; the only caution is the on-call intensity of a cardiac/ECMO centre.
Concord anaesthetics SRMO Anaesthetics · 3 authors · 3 tagged sentences; no tally under 30
Nine months of anaesthetics against Westmead's six — repeatedly named as one of the better anaesthetics-heavy SRMO years in Sydney. Interviews mid-August.
Concord ED Emergency medicine · single report (2 authors) · 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30 · one person's experience
single report — 2 author(s), 2 sentence(s), descriptive; below the 3-author bar, not a community verdict.
RPA radiology SRMO Radiology · single report (2 authors) · 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30 · one person's experience
single report — 2 author(s), 2 sentence(s), descriptive; below the 3-author bar, not a community verdict.
Canterbury ICU unaccredited reg Intensive care · single report (2 authors) · 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30 · one person's experience
single report — 2 author(s), 2 sentence(s), cautionary; below the 3-author bar, not a community verdict.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ED Emergency medicine · single report (2 authors) · 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30 · one person's experience
single report — 2 author(s), 2 sentence(s), descriptive; below the 3-author bar, not a community verdict.
Concord radiology SRMO Radiology · single report (2 authors) · 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30 · one person's experience
single report — 2 author(s), 2 sentence(s), descriptive; below the 3-author bar, not a community verdict.

When you usually hear

Comments that said this employer opened, interviewed, offered or rejected on a date (the date the poster gave, or when they posted).

Show 5 earlier reports
  • 20 Aug 2025resultsAnyone heard from RPA or RNS anaesthetics SRMO?
  • 20 Aug 2025interview invitesJust received an interview offer for canterbury unaccredited 4 months anaes/4 months ICU/4 months cardiology.
  • 15 July 2025interview invitesI understand Liverpool, RPA, Concord, Gosford and POW have released interview offers.
  • 4 Sept 2024interview invites RMO jobDoes anyone know if RPAH and RNSH have sent out interview invitations for PGY2 general RMO jobs?
  • 26 Aug 2024interview invites SRMO interviewWhen is the RPA derm SRMO interview offers?

In their words thin data (9 quotes; no tally under 30)

Most unaccredited anaesthetic registrars are tacked with a bunch of ICU service provision (think Ryde, Canterbury unaccredited) - you're almost doing that already.

u/Chengus · anaesthetic reg · Feb 2024 · NSW · comment

Going to pull you up on RPA ICU - they are extremely supportive for resitters but it does require the trainees to put in the extra time that is literally *offered* to them by the senior medical staff.

u/Ripley_and_Jones · consultant · Aug 2026 · NSW · comment

The memo from SLHD chief executive Deb Wilcox outlines psychiatry registrars are to be called only in two circumstances overnight “following executive en­dorsement”.

u/ausclinpsychologist · Jan 2025 · NSW · comment

I recently heard about an intern at RPA who did a external jugular cannulation in ED with out supervision, got in trouble then did it again.

u/CladiaConstantine · sho · Nov 2023 · NSW · comment
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Objectively I got pretty lucky with a metro hospital that has a good reputation for teaching and culture, but I’m still a bit bummed because I was really hoping for RPA.

u/DrDiagnonsense · med student · July 2024 · NSW · comment

Then the prep course about 3 months before the exam was useful too - either RPA, Deltamed or Dunedin.

u/Prestigious-Ad-312 · July 2023 · NSW · comment

The two things that would impact me would be No anaesthetics term at RPA vs relocating to Wagga and making friends there only to then move back to the city after a year or 2 for reg jobs.

u/Peastoredintheballs · med student · Oct 2023 · NSW · comment

This will be easier at RPA as there’s established primary teaching.

u/AussieFIdoc · registrar · Oct 2023 · NSW · comment

If you work at the legal equivalent of RPA/RMH the firm is pretty likely to pay for all of your further specialization, even Masters degrees as long as you stay.

u/assatumcaulfield · anaesthetist · Aug 2024 · NSW · comment

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