Infectious Diseases

Core infectious diseases

24 months

At least, in accredited core positions

Microbiology rotation

6 months

At least, at an accredited institution, or the online course and logbook

Non-core trainingA rotation outside the areas the program requires. It counts toward training time only up to the program's limit.

12 months

At most, or 6 with a microbiology rotation

Training settings

2

At least, recommended, accredited or approved

In Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand

24 months

At least, in accredited settings

• Accredited settingsCore training counts only in an accredited position, and each setting is accredited for 6, 12 or 24 months of core training and a set number of trainees in the accredited sites list
• Aotearoa New ZealandAuckland City, Christchurch, Waikato and Wellington hospitals for up to 24 months, Dunedin, Hutt, Middlemore and North Shore hospitals for 12, and Tauranga Hospital for 6 over a year
• Laboratory yearsThe joint program's laboratory years are in microbiology laboratories the RCPARoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia accredits, listed in its accredited laboratories list
• In the territoryCanberra Hospital for up to 24 months, and North Canberra Hospital, accredited provisionally, for 12

What every accredited infectious diseases setting must give you

New consultations

500

A year for each trainee, at least, each a full assessment discussed with a consultant

Teaching areas

8

Covered by the teaching sessions you attend

Rotation supervisors

2

Each rotation, at least one an infectious diseases Fellow of the RACPRoyal Australasian College of Physicians

Microbiology rotation supervisors

2

At least one a microbiology Fellow of the RCPARoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia

Research project supervisor

1

Nominated before specialty consolidation, recommended

Consultant infectious diseases physicians

1

Full-time equivalent at least, at the setting

Supervisor meetings

1

A week at least

Divisional examinations

2

Written and Clinical, passed in Basic Training before Advanced Training

Learning capturesA work-based assessment in which you record and reflect on a learning activity, linked to your learning goals.

12

Each phase, at least one a month

Observation capturesA work-based assessment in which an assessor watches you at work and gives feedback against your learning goals.

12

Each phase, at least one a month

Progress reportsYour own and your supervisors' assessment of your progress against the learning goals over a period of training.

4

Each phase, at least one every 3 months

Rotation plansA plan for each rotation of how you will cover your learning goals there, approved by your supervisors.

1

For each rotation, at or before its start

Research project

1

Before the end of training, submitted by the end of specialty consolidation, recommended

Supervisor workshops

3

Free, by the end of training

Part-time training

0.2

Full-time equivalent, at least

Interruption

12 months

Continuous, with no extra training required

Time limit

8 years

To complete the program

RCPARoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia examinations

3

Basic Pathological Sciences, Part I and Part II

Divisional examinations

2

Written and Clinical, passed in Basic Training

Core infectious diseases

2 years

Prospectively approved by the joint committee

Laboratory microbiology

3 years

In laboratories the RCPARoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia accredits

Laboratories

2

At least, with 12 months or more outside the main one

In one laboratory

2 years

At most

• Accredited settingsCore training counts only in an accredited position, and each setting is accredited for 6, 12 or 24 months of core training and a set number of trainees in the accredited sites list
• Aotearoa New ZealandAuckland City, Christchurch, Waikato and Wellington hospitals for up to 24 months, Dunedin, Hutt, Middlemore and North Shore hospitals for 12, and Tauranga Hospital for 6 over a year
• Laboratory yearsThe joint program's laboratory years are in microbiology laboratories the RCPARoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia accredits, listed in its accredited laboratories list
• In the territoryCanberra Hospital for up to 24 months, and North Canberra Hospital, accredited provisionally, for 12

RCPARoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia registration

2 months

At most after you start, then each year

Case-based discussions

4

Each laboratory year, across a wide range of infections

Practical skills observed

12

Over training, at least 8 before Part I

Result calls observed

3

Each year before Part I, then 2 a year

Clinical meetings

3

Each year, of the kinds the form lists

Clinical projects

2

Begun in the core infectious diseases years

Major project

1

Laboratory research, due in the year of Part II

Minor project

1

1,000 to 3,000 words, before the Part II oral

Part-time training

0.2

Full-time equivalent, at least

Interruption

12 months

Continuous, with no extra training required

Time limit

12 years

To complete the program