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RACP / AChSHM
When Sexual Health Medicine applications run, and what the round looks like.
Feb
Prospective approval has two annual deadlines: 28 February (first-half or full calendar-year training) and 31 August (second-half training).
Late applications accepted up to one month after the deadline; a late fee may apply, but not if supervisor approval was still pending at the deadline.
Moderate
Training positions and workforce figures below are limited to South Australia. Selection criteria, requirements and application dates are set by RACP / AChSHM nationally and apply in every state.
How Sexual Health Medicine training is structured.
3 years
Competencies
Formal instruction requirements
Components from several universities can usually be combined into one Masters degree, with at least 50 per cent of the work at one institution.
By the end of Advanced Training
Exit assessment
An oral examination across a range of clinical scenarios, with two sets of two examiners.
The final year of training
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
While choosing where to study
Within 3 months of entering the program
Before the exit assessment
Sexual health medicine intersects with public health, infectious diseases, and primary care — demonstrating interest across these domains is valued.
Fellows of RANZCOG, RANZCP, RACGP, or ACRRM can enter directly without repeating RACP Basic Training — check the existing-Fellow pathway if you hold one of these.
Referee reports are optional on the entry form rather than required, which is unusual. What is required is a detailed curriculum vitae, a certified copy of your medical registration and certified copies of your fellowship documentation.
Selection and workforce history, transcribed as published.
109
Fellows in Australia
At 31 December 2025
The smallest specialty on this site: 109 Fellows nationally at the end of 2025, with fewer than ten in five of the eight jurisdictions.
How many Fellows of this specialty were on the register in each state at 31 December 2025. This is workforce size, not intake — a large number here does not mean a large number of training places.
| Jurisdiction | Fellows |
|---|---|
| Australian Capital Territory | 4 |
| New South Wales | 50 |
| Northern Territory |
Queensland Health is the only state department publishing these figures so far.
No published figures exist yet for South Australia. 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 / AChSHM.
The qualification was recorded as FRACP (Sexual Health Medicine) and is FAChSHM. This is a Chapter program, and the route-dependent FRACP rule applies to Palliative Medicine alone. Entry also now records the comparability assessment overseas trained doctors need, and that referee reports are optional.
2 posts across 2 hospitals in South Australia. Each circle counts hospitals.
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Hospital locations © OpenStreetMap contributors. State boundaries from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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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 / AChSHM before making career decisions. Report an error on this page.
| Queensland | 12 |
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| South Australia (your selected state) | 8 |
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| Tasmania | 4 |
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| Victoria | 22 |
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| Western Australia | 8 |
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| Australia, total | 109 |
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Source: Australian Government Department of Health. Medical Education and Training (2025), Chapter 4: Fellows — College Fellows by state, as at 31 December 2025. Figures are transcribed as published.