General Practice

• Residency: Australian or New Zealand citizenship, Australian permanent residency, or a 309, 482, 485, 491, 494 or 820 visa. A 790 visa or a Bridging Visa A or B is assessed case by case
  • Temporary visas: declare that you intend to gain permanent residency, or show an active application. Fellowship needs citizenship or permanent residency by the end of training
  • Visa sponsorship: if your visa needs employer sponsorship, secure it at an accredited training site yourself, and preference only regions in a state your visa allows. Neither the RACGPRoyal Australian College of General Practitioners nor the Department arranges sponsorship
• Registration: general registration by the first semester of the intake year. Provisional or limited registration is enough to apply
  • New Zealand registration: enough to apply on its own, with the application reviewed by the Training Program Eligibility Panel. Without Australian or New Zealand registration you cannot apply
• Specialist registration: specialist registration in general practice makes you ineligible. Other specialist registration is reviewed by the Training Program Eligibility Panel
• Eligibility Panel review: conditions on your registration, or a past withdrawal from a specialist program, need a CV on the RACGPRoyal Australian College of General Practitioners template naming three referees, used only to decide eligibility
• Other general practice programs: withdraw from another Australian General Practice Training place before you apply, or declare you will leave any other general practice program before you start
• Fellowship exams already sat: at least 2 exam semesters remaining, if you have sat RACGPRoyal Australian College of General Practitioners Fellowship exams since January 2019
• Re-entry: if you left an RACGPRoyal Australian College of General Practitioners program, reapply under the rules current then, with time still left within the maximum program time
• Before the first general practice term: Australian Medical Council postgraduate year 2 certification, or general registration and a further 12 months of accredited supervised hospital rotations at postgraduate year 2 or above
• Hospital rotations: completed within 10 years before the first general practice term, with at most 26 weeks in one discipline and 7 weeks of leave counted in each hospital year
  • Locum work: counts only where it was like a training term, 4 weeks or more with supervision, education, feedback and a satisfactory assessment
  • Older terms: terms more than 5 years old may need evidence of how you kept your skills
• Paediatric competency: met within 5 years before the first general practice term, with at least 5 weeks at postgraduate year 2 or later, by one of five routes
  • Route 1: a paediatric term of 10 weeks or more covering acute, critical and undifferentiated care. A subspecialty term such as neonatal intensive care may not fully count
  • Route 2: 10 weeks or more in an accredited mixed adult and paediatric emergency department, seeing at least 100 patients aged 0 to 17
  • Route 3: 10 weeks in a mixed emergency department, plus a half paediatric term, a hospital general practice rotation, or a second mixed emergency term
  • Route 4: the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network child health certificate or diploma, plus mixed emergency, half paediatric or hospital general practice time
  • Route 5: 20 weeks or more in an accredited general practice at postgraduate year 2 or later, seeing at least 100 children with acute presentations, plus an approved module

Most Fellows, 23,010 of 29,476, trained through Australian General Practice Training. The others reached Fellowship through an RACGP route outside it, the ACRRM Independent Pathway, the Remote Vocational Training Scheme or the specialist pathway.