Placements

Successful applicants receive a Training Offer to train in the northern and regional Queensland training region via the RACGP’s Training Management Systems (TMS).  Once accepted, the TMS provides access to the onboarding module.

Registrars must complete the onboarding and induction modules and upload evidence of their hospital training before the specified deadline.

JCU General Practice and Rural Medicine will contact registrars to schedule an Induction Training Advisor Meeting with a JCU General Practice and Rural Medicine staff member and/or Medical Educator.  During this Zoom meeting, registrars’ experience is reviewed to determine whether they meet the RACGP mandatory hospital term requirements and to determine their eligibility to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning and Experience (RPLE).

Registrars are required to complete the placement confirmation survey in the TMS every semester.  GP-ready registrars are asked to preference the NWQ training regions they would like to be considered for their GP terms from 1-10.  They can provide details of their connections to the regions they have preferenced, their training plans and other specific training requirements. They can also upload supporting evidence if they need to be allocated to a particular training region, for example custody orders.

JCU’s General Practice and Rural Medicine team meets to allocate registrars to training regions taking into account the information supplied in the Induction Training Advisor meeting, TMS placement confirmation survey, training post capacity survey and the health needs of our communities. Although the team makes every effort to do so, it is not always possible to allocate registrars to their preferred region. This is for several reasons including training post capacity, supervisor availability, training post requirements set by ACRRM and RACGP, and the importance that we give to distributing registrars evenly and fairly across the entire NWQ training region, with priority given to areas with greater health needs.

Once a registrar is allocated to a training region, the local team will match them with two suitable practices to interview at for a placement and initiate the placement application in the TMS.

The practice schedules an interview using the TMS and offer a placement to one registrar via the TMS.  Registrars can choose to accept or decline an offer. Following this process, if there are no suitable available training posts in the allocated region, registrars may be offered interviews in other NWQ training regions.

Key dates: 2024 1^st Intake and GP Placements

Hospital training evidence:

• A Statement of Service (confirmation of service) for all Australian / New Zealand hospital work completed, including Internship,
• End of Term Assessments for hospital training,
• Current CV,
• Proof of the date General Registration was granted – an email from AHPRA advising the application was approved,

If you have any questions about the key dates, please contact the Registrar Movements team via email gprm.registrarmovements@jcu.edu.au.

Through a robust Fellowship training and education program, ACRRM is committed to providing the right doctors in the right places with the right skills to ensure rural and remote communities have access to high-quality healthcare.

The ACRRM placement process occurs every six months. Supporting this, the College provides registrars with quality training placements in regional, rural and remote communities throughout Australia. Registrars can choose to embark on a range of placements to meet their training requirements or undertake long-term training placements to establish themselves in their community.

The opportunities are plentiful, and in every placement, ACRRM will ensure registrars are supported by their regional team of supervisors, registrar liaison officers, training network coordinators and training officers.

Training posts can also be confident they have access to registrars committed to working in rural and remote locations and can rely on ACRRM to assist with their accreditation requirements.

To find out more, please visit the ACRRM website.

Key dates: 2024.1 Placement Key Dates

Please note: ACRRM placements dates are subject to change.

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