Medical Retinal Fellow
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 Full Time Position – commencing February 2026 and August 2026.
The Medical Retina Unit has two fellowship positions starting February and one starting in 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 position is a combination of clinical (0.8 FTE) through the Royal Victorian eye and Ear Hospital and research through the Centre for Eye Research Australia / Cerulea (0.2 FTE).
The Fellow attends both Medical Retina and Ocular Immunology Clinics each week. There is also the opportunity for rotation through Ocular Genetics, Vitreo-retinal and Ocular Oncology clinics. Fellows will be rostered to weekly intravitreal injection and laser clinics. There is a fortnightly cataract surgery list primarily for patients with retinal disease. Successful applicants are expected to have experience in retinal laser, intravitreal injections and cataract surgery. There is a weekly angiogram meeting for interesting case discussion and teaching. In addition fellows will have the opportunity to present at department meetings.
The research is supervised by Professor Robyn Guymer (Head of Macular Research Unit) and Professor Lyndell Lim (Head of Uveitis and Retinal Vascular Disease Research). Two sessions per week are dedicated to research and ongoing involvement with trials supervised by the Macular Research Unit and Clinical Trials Unit.
All fellows will be rostered to one session in the hospital’s busy Emergency Department and will participate in after hours on-call shared between both medical retinal and ocular immunology fellows.
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.
Please click on the links to the following documents:
Medical Staff Application Form: Junior Medical Staff Application Form
Application Guidelines: Application Guidelines for Junior Medical Staff
Position Description: Medical Retina Fellow
For further information please contact Fellowrecruitment@eyeandear.org.au or telephone the JMS Coordinator on (61 3) 9929 8191
Application Close: 30th April 2025
