Loading this specialty…
Paediatrics and Child Health covers Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, so this is the parent specialty entry.
RACP
When Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine applications run, and what the round looks like.
Feb
The RACP registration deadlines (28 February / 31 August) are for annual re-registration within training, not the initial application.
There is no centrally published PGY floor, because Basic Training selection is run by hospital networks rather than by the college. PGY2 to PGY4 is typical.
Training positions and workforce figures below are limited to Northern Territory. Selection criteria, requirements and application dates are set by RACP nationally and apply in every state.
High
How Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine training is structured.
3 years
To complete
3 years
Competencies
Advanced Paediatric Life Support, or an Advanced Life Support course
Compulsory for every trainee. It is also how one Advanced Training outcome is judged, so it carries weight twice here.
During Basic Training
RACP Written Examination
Multiple choice, blueprinted to the curriculum.
Before progressing to Advanced Training
RACP Clinical Examination
Two long cases and four short cases.
Before progressing to Advanced Training
3 years, the same as either single pathway
A published pathway of its own rather than two programs run together. 24 months of core respiratory medicine and 12 months of core sleep medicine, in place of the 12 months of non-core either single pathway would take. It is the only route to the post-nominal with no qualifier after it.
Named in the sleep curriculum as a subspecialty a sleep trainee may wish to take up, alongside respiratory medicine, and as training that may meet the sleep requirements more quickly than other backgrounds. Named only. No combined duration or requirement is published for it, unlike the respiratory and sleep pathway above.
One set of categories across every specialty, so two can be compared. Only those with criteria recorded for this specialty are shown.
Rotations, logbooks, procedures, and exposure
Exams, qualifications, courses, and teaching
Papers, impact factor, audits, and QI
Registration mechanics and logistics not covered above
Sourced from Australian medical community discussion.
Before applying
Before each training period
Advanced Training
Community paediatrics and complex disability experience is underrepresented in most CVs — it differentiates applicants to programs with community and developmental paediatrics training.
Queensland Health is the only state department publishing these figures so far.
No published figures exist yet for Northern Territory. This is being worked on. The selection criteria and requirements above apply Australia wide regardless of state. See the Queensland figures.
Changes published by RACP.
New curriculum introduced for Basic Paediatric Training from 2025. Trainees commencing BPT from 2025 follow the new curriculum. Trainees who started in 2024 or earlier complete the previous PREP program.
No Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine training positions recorded in Northern Territory. See all 8 across Australia.
Published by RACP 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 RACP before making career decisions. Report an error on this page.
To complete