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RACP
When Nephrology applications run, and what the round looks like.
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RACP registration by the twice-yearly deadlines (28 February and 31 August) is administrative; Advanced Training positions are secured at hospital or network level.
Entry is after Basic Physician Training — there is no single national scored round, and RACP is not involved in recruiting or selecting trainees.
Victoria and Tasmania run a centralised PMCV nephrology match (around 39 positions across 15 health services).
Entry is typically PGY4 to PGY5 or later: after the 3-year Basic Physician Training program, having passed both FRACP Divisional Examinations, holding general (unconditional) AHPRA registration, and having secured an accredited Advanced Training position before RACP prospective approval.
Moderate
How Nephrology training is structured.
3 years
Competencies
To complete
Queensland
Queensland
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Exams, qualifications, courses, and teaching
Registration mechanics and logistics not covered above
Sourced from Australian medical community discussion.
Basic Training
Before Advanced Training starts
Advanced Training
Every year of training
There is no national ranking — success rests on your individual hospital or network application (or the Victoria/Tasmania PMCV match), so build relationships with your target department.
Where a documented process exists (the PMCV Victoria/Tasmania match), work to its published timetable rather than a hospital's informal one. The College publishes no scoring breakdown for it, so treat any weighting you are told informally as unconfirmed.
Weigh the workforce picture — a 2022 ANZSN survey found trainee numbers rising, so entry looks less bottlenecked than downstream job security.
Queensland Health is the only state department publishing these figures so far.
7 / 21Eligible applicants selected, 2026 first-year entry
A centrally coordinated Queensland Health pathway or network
Queensland pathway
Applicants who are not successful on the centralised pathway remain eligible for other accredited advanced training positions in Queensland — but a transplant service placement is not guaranteed outside the pathway
Changes published by RACP.
RACP applied a 4% fee increase for the 2026 training year. The Advanced Training annual fee is AUD $4,230 including GST.
A new competency-based Advanced Training curriculum for nephrology began its transition, with 2024 trainees enrolled under the new standards (competency learning goals and progression levels) while retaining the existing work-based assessment tools during the transition. Earlier cohorts continue on the previous curriculum.
64 posts across 62 hospitals in Australia. Each circle counts hospitals.
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The guaranteed transplant year is the distinguishing feature of the Queensland pathway and the reason the centralised route is worth preferencing
Queensland Health, medi-nav, 31 July 2026. Selection numbers are for first-year entry and vary year to year.