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RACS / GSA
When General Surgery applications run, and what the round looks like.
Applications
RACS registration opens 6 January and closes 30 January, 12 noon AEDT. This is a separate step from the application itself.
Dates for later offer rounds are published for each cycle on the General Surgeons Australia website.
Most successful applicants are PGY3 to 5. GSSE must be passed before application. Broad surgical exposure including emergency, upper GI, colorectal, and trauma is expected.
Training positions and workforce figures below are limited to Western Australia. Selection criteria, requirements and application dates are set by RACS / GSA nationally and apply in every state.
Very high
How General Surgery training is structured.
GSET 1 to GSET 3
Competencies
GSET 4 and GSET 5
Competencies
EMST, Early Management of Severe Trauma
Mandatory across all nine surgical specialties. Certification lasts four years.
During training
CCrISP, Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient
Mandatory across all nine surgical specialties.
During training
ASSET, Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Surgical Skills Education and Training
Two days of basic surgical skills, with ten eLearning modules beforehand.
During training
RACS cultural competency modules 1 and 2
A condition of the offer.
Before training commences
Entry gates that are not scored, such as a visa, residency status, or the type of medical registration required.
One set of categories across every specialty, so two can be compared. Only those with criteria recorded for this specialty are shown.
Total 100%, across four components
Structured against the General Surgery Person Specification.
Scored out of 19 points across qualifications, presentations, publications, scholarship and teaching, and indigeneity and ethnicity. Scored twice, independently.
Communication, teamwork and collaboration, and professionalism.
Ten points across rural education, rural origin, and rural and remote surgical experience. Scored separately from the curriculum vitae.
Rotations, logbooks, procedures, and exposure
Rural, regional, and remote experience
Sourced from Australian medical community discussion.
From your first surgical term
Across your surgical rotations
When choosing where to work
Before the close of applications
In January, before applying
Do not confuse the two referee processes. The professionalism referee reports come from clerical, nursing, allied health, emergency, intensive care and anaesthetics, and junior doctor colleagues, and are scored. The separate form signed by four consultant surgeons is an eligibility requirement that is passed or failed, not a scored referee tool.
Queensland Health is the only state department publishing these figures so far.
No published figures exist yet for Western Australia. This is being worked on. The selection criteria and requirements above apply Australia wide regardless of state. See the Queensland figures.
15 posts across 11 hospitals in Western Australia. Each circle counts hospitals.
South West Health Campus is not shown on the map, with no location on file. Their posts are still counted above.
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Hospital locations © OpenStreetMap contributors. State boundaries from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Published by RACS / GSA and the Medical Board unless stated.
Colleges, portals and rubrics
Connected to this specialty by the Medical Board’s specialty structure, by college, or by a shared training pathway.
Requirements, windows, and criteria change annually. Verify with RACS / GSA before making career decisions. Report an error on this page.
Selection points and pathways for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Māori applicants
Exams, qualifications, courses, and teaching
Papers, impact factor, audits, and QI
Who is asked to report on you, and what they are asked
Format, stations, and what the interview assesses
Application, interview, and registration costs
Registration mechanics and logistics not covered above