Radiology

Secondary site term

3 to 4 months

Full time, or more than 2 days a week

Affiliated site

2 days

A week at most, or 4 sessions

One Phase 3 subspecialty

6 months

At most

Away from your home site

12 months

Full-time equivalent at least, in total

• Accredited sites121 sites in Australia with 728 accredited trainee positions, and 2 in Singapore with 4. The two Albury Wodonga hospitals are in two states' counts and are counted once here. A position is accredited capacity, not a vacancy
• NetworksEvery site belongs to a local area network, inside a wide area network, which recruits across its sites and plans your rotations. In many networks you spend a year or more at a primary site
• Site categoriesA primary site holds most of a network's trainees and meets every standard. You rotate to a secondary site for a term, or for more than 2 days a week. Each has its own Director of Training
• Affiliated sitesSites you attend as part of a primary or secondary site's roster, for at most 2 days a week. They hold no positions of their own, and your time there counts as that site's
• In the territory5 sites with 26 accredited trainee positions: The Canberra Hospital 22, and its Fetal Medicine Unit, BreastScreen ACT, Weston Creek Medical Imaging and Canberra Imaging Deakin 1 each

What every accredited site must give you

Protected time

4 hours

A week at least, for study and learning, such as tutorials

Tutorials

1 to 2 hours

Of teaching a week, alongside the network program

Clinical supervisors

1 to 1.5

At least one full-time supervisor for every 1.5 full-time trainees

Side by side

8 hours

A week on average, working beside a radiologist, an hour a session

After-hours review

24 hours

Your after-hours reports and procedures are reviewed within

Phase 1

2

Anatomy and Applied Imaging Technology, one three-hour paper each

Phase 2

3

Pathology, Clinical Radiology and the clinical examination

Attempts

4

At most at each Phase 1 examination, and 3 at each Phase 2 one

Reporting assessments

10

Every six months, in every phase

Critically appraised topics

6

Two in each phase

Research project

1

Proposal approved by the end of Phase 1

Part-time training

0.4

Full-time equivalent at least. Below it, no training time accrues

Interruption

12 months

At most at a time, requested 14 days ahead

Time limit

10 years

Calendar years from starting