For Australian doctors applying for specialty training
Know where you stand
Score your CV against your college's published selection criteria in 5 minutes. Find your strengths, and the gaps to close to get in.
How it works
Three steps. No sign up needed.
Choose a specialty
If you are unsure, compare specialties first. Explore all 87 specialty pathways offered in Australia.
Fill out the specialty CV calculator in under 5 minutes
Each calculator scores answers to questions about your experience, research, coursework and background, matched to college specific requirements.
Find your strengths and gaps
See how competitive you are, and get individual recommendations to strengthen your application based on the gaps it finds.
What intoSET does
A centralised hub connecting specialists and doctors in training.
Discover specialties
Learn about the medical specialties, the positions available, and what each college requires to get in.
Find a research project
Research projects and audits looking for junior collaborators, with transparent terms for authorship.
Gain hospital intelligence
Explore accredited and unaccredited positions across Australia, with anonymous, moderated reviews from the doctors who worked there.
See how competitive you are
Score your CV against criteria published by the colleges, find your gaps, and see how to strengthen your portfolio.
Find mentors
Book time with doctors who are already on the program and will mentor you onto it.
For doctors already on a training program
Already on a college program? Become a mentor.
Offer a range of sessions that suit you, from interview practice and portfolio reviews to career pathway and planning. Choose from a range of sessions to offer and set your own terms.
Sign up to apply as a mentor.
* 5% platform fee.
Sessions you could offer
- Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) Preparation
- Mock Interview
- Portfolio & Gap Analysis
- Application Strategy Session
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Written Application Review
- Research Project Guidance
- Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Preparation
- Career Pathway Planning
- Referee Selection & Approach
- Ongoing Mentorship (per session)
Choose from a range of sessions to offer and set your own terms.
Need help with your research?
Find collaborators to help with your research
You set the terms
Choose the time commitments, authorship terms, required skills and number of applicants to take.
Find collaborators
Review each applicant’s portfolio before you accept. You decide who to work with.
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Where the data comes from
Made by doctors, for doctors. Every figure on this site traces back to something you can open and read yourself.
We tell you when we are guessing
12 colleges publish an actual point table, and those calculators use the exact values. Most colleges publish no points at all, only selection statements and guidelines describing what they are looking for. We read those documents and turn them into criteria that can be scored consistently, so your portfolio can be measured against them. Where the weighting is ours rather than the college’s, the calculator says so on screen, every time.
| How it is scored | Calculators | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| College point table | 12 | The college publishes the points. We use their exact values. |
| Published criteria, our weighting | 75 | The college publishes statements and guidelines but no points. We convert them into scoreable criteria and label the result indicative. |
You only ever need the one for your specialty, not all 87.
Straight from the colleges
Selection criteria, scoring tables and intake figures come from the colleges’ own published documents and from government recruitment processes. All 87 calculators name the document they were built from.
Peer reviewed
Selection rules change every year. If you spot something inaccurate or out of date, send it in with the source and we will review it and update the site. This is a community of doctors keeping it right for one another.
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Start with your score
Score yourself against your college’s published criteria. See which specialties your portfolio competes best in, and what to fix before the round opens.
Free, and no account needed to get your score.