Training

Fellowship training is made up of three years Core Generalist Training (CGT) and 12-24 months of your chosen Advanced Specialised Training (AST).

 

Core Generalist Training (CGT) covers 3 years of the 4-year Fellowship program.

You will develop broad knowledge, skills and attributes in primary, secondary and emergency care in a rural and remote context, and gain essential Rural Generalist skills across a variety of domains.

Train in a regional, rural, remote general practices, rural hospitals, Aboriginal Medical Services (AMS), retrieval services or other health facilities accredited by ACRRM.

CGT is individual and based on experience. It is made up of:

  • Paediatrics
  • Obstetrics
  • Anaesthetics
  • Community Primary Care
  • Secondary Care
  • Emergency Care
  • Rural and Remote Practice (MMM 4-7)

AST covers a minimum of 12 months of the four-year Fellowship program. 

Increase your knowledge and skills in one of 12 disciplines, enabling a defined scope of specialist clinical practice relevant to the needs of rural communities.

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
  • Academic Practice
  • Adult Internal Medicine
  • Anaesthetics
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Mental Health
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Paediatrics
  • Palliative Care
  • Population Health
  • Remote Medicine
  • Surgery

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Education

Fellowship education includes orientation, cultural training, a series of online modules, virtual and face-to-face workshops, and emergency medicine courses.

For key dates to help plan your enrolments, please visit the Education Key Dates page.

There are updated education requirements for registrars starting on the ACRRM Fellowship program from Semester 2, 2024. More information on these changes can be found here.

 

All registrars are required to actively participate in, and complete, face-to-face regional orientation to primary care.

Through Joint Colleges Training Services (JCTS), ACRRM registrars take part in a cultural education. This includes an introduction to Country and an incredible opportunity to learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander food, art, and kinship.

All registrars are required to actively participate in and complete a structured education program mapped to the Rural Generalist Curriculum. This consists of the following:

Online modules (self-directed)

Four semesters of online education (Semesters A, B, C & D) comprising of a total of 20 clinical topics.

Virtual national education workshop (3 days)

Hosted by a team of FACRRM Clinical Educators who explore a variety of curriculum mapped topics. The virtual sessions give registrars a front row experience of clinical demonstrations, interaction with their peers via break out group discussions, and allows for quick and easy sharing of resources.

Face to face national education workshop (2 days)

Utilising practical sessions and hands on skills stations, registrars will develop their clinical skills and further build networks of their colleagues.

Click here for more information about the topics covered within the education program.

All registrars must successfully complete the Rural Emergency Medicine Skills Training (REST) course, an Advanced Life Support 2 (ALS 2) course, and other emergency medicine courses as outlined in the Fellowship Handbook.

"I cherish the fact that ACRRM is the only medical college dedicated to rural and remote training. I am grateful that my rural and remote skills are entirely relevant to every assessment I completed. I love that rural is not an “after-thought” or an add-on to my medical training. I value that every mentor, assessor, and educator I’ve had is a Rural Generalist."

Dr Marian Dover

ACRRM Fellow, East Kimberley - WA