Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

• Multi-source feedback

  A survey the College runs in semester 2, with your own self-assessment

• Scholarly elective proposal

  Your proposal and timeline, with the first six-monthly assessment, naming a research supervisor for the research stream

You choose in Year 1, with a proposal and timeline in your first six-monthly assessment. You can apply for both streams at once and choose once approved. A relevant higher research degree, or a suitable course, can exempt you. Lodge the exemption with your first prospective approval. You are still expected to do ongoing research.

• CREI Written Examination

  Ten short-answer questions for 150 marks in 3 hours 15 minutes, sat by remote proctoring each August

  • Open once 46 weeks of training are credited by its application closing date
  • You have 3 attempts

• CREI Oral Examination

  A structured oral examination with examiners and simulated patients, face to face in Melbourne, each November

  • Open once 46 weeks are credited by its application closing date
  • You have 3 attempts

• Training outside an accredited CREI unit

  Only in Year 3, approved in advance, up to 6 months in all

  • Training in a non-CREI unit is approved only if every surgical skills assessment can still be done by the end of Year 3

• When to ask

  Training outside an accredited unit goes to the June committee meeting of the year before for a semester 1 start, and to the October meeting for semester 2

  • Send the request 8 weeks before the meeting, with your supervisor there and their CV

• Independent operating

  As primary operator across diagnostic work, adnexal, uterine and endometriosis surgery, assisted reproduction and male reproductive surgery

• Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology Skills module

  The FRANZCOG Advanced Training module, complete by the end of training

• Special Interest Modules

  Other elective modules, if you choose

• Surgical skills

  Seven assessments by the end of the year, for laparoscopic salpingolysis, hysteroscopic adhesiolysis, hysteroscopic division of a uterine septum, hysteroscopic myomectomy, a myomectomy open or laparoscopic, percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration, and testicular sperm aspiration or open testicular biopsy

• Examination deadlines

  Sit the first within 2 years of finishing your 3 clinical years

  • Pass both within 4 years of finishing them

• Progress reports

  One every 6 months, with a nominated mentor or supervisor

• Certification

  Applied for once at least 138 weeks are credited and every assessment is complete, approved by the subspecialty committee and ratified by the Board

  • The CREI subspecialist title is not used before then

• Scholarly elective deadline

  Finish it within the time your stream allows, or removal from the program is recommended

  • Revisions can delay certification