Step 1: Check your eligibility
Check your eligibility against ACRRM's codified list
Minimum Clinical Care Requirement: Minimum of three years providing clinical care away from ready access to specialist medical, diagnostic and allied health services, since achieving your specialist qualification.
Step 2: Primary Source Verification
Commence an application through the Australian Medical Council for verification of your qualifications and obtain an EPIC number.
Set up your EPIC Account
Fees:
Establish an EPIC Account and Identify Verification: US$100
Verification of Credentials: US$100 per credential
Step 3: Apply to ACRRM for assessment
Application (including Specialist Pathway Application Form) is to be uploaded to the ACRRM website in your My Documents panel within MyCollege.
Assessment Criteria: SIMG's comparability is assessed against the competencies in the eight domains of rural and remote practice as described in the Rural Generalist Curriculum.
Step 4: Application Review
ACRRM will review your application and supporting documents to confirm all required information has been provided.
Step 5: Structured Interview
If you are deemed suitable, you will be invited to attend a structured interview via video-conference.
Step 6: Assessment Outcome
If you are assessed as partially or substantially comparable to an Australian-trained Fellow of ACRRM, you will be eligible to commence the Specialist Pathway. If you are deemed not comparable you will need to consult the Medical Board of Australia for other registration options.
The Specialist Pathway leads to Specialist registration in general practice with the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) and Fellowship of ACRRM (FACRRM).
Specialist IMGs (SIMGs) who have ACRRM-recognised overseas specialist qualifications as per the Codified List, in general practice or family medicine, may apply for assessment on the Specialist Pathway. This includes Canadian or New Zealand GP specialists under Ad Eundem Gradum (AEG).
The College assesses if the training and experience of an SIMG is comparable to that of a Fellow of ACRRM (FACRRM).
A FACRRM is a medical specialist who has been assessed as meeting the requisite standards for providing high-quality rural generalist medical practice. This involves:
1. Medical care of community needs: Provide and adapt expert primary, secondary, emergency and specialised medical care to community needs.
2. Medical care in isolation: Provide safe, effective medical care while working in geographic and professional isolation.
3. Work with culturally diverse groups: Work in partnership with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander peoples and other culturally diverse groups.
4. Population approach: Apply a population approach to community needs.
Doctors on the ACRRM Specialist Pathway must work in a rural health service (MM4-7 location) approved by the College to enable rural generalist competencies to be assessed.
ACRRM Codified List
If you have hold one of the qualifications on the Codified List you are eligible to apply to be assessed by ACRRM under the College's Specialist pathway.
Countries include: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
*List subject to change.
Criteria for inclusion on the Codified List
The qualification has the following features:
- Comparable definition to the Australian definition of a general practitioner
- Accredited as a General Practice/Family Physician training program/qualification by medical board, medical council or relevant authority
- Leads to specialist medical registration in own country
- Recognised by other GP Colleges in other countries as a GP specialist qualification
The training program has the following features:
- A published curriculum
- Two or more years of supervised placements
- Accredited training sites and supervisors
- Uses a range of teaching and learning approaches
- Uses a range of appropriate validated assessment methods and standard setting processes to set the pass mark
Assessment Criteria
Competencies
SIMG's comparability is assessed against the competencies in the eight domains of rural and remote practice as described in the Rural Generalist Curriculum:
- Provide expert medical care in all rural contexts
- Provide primary care
- Provide secondary medical care
- Respond to medical emergencies
- Apply a population health approach
- Work with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and other culturally diverse communities to improve health and wellbeing
- Practise medicine within an ethical, intellectual and professional framework
- Provide safe medical care while working in geographic and professional isolation
Requirements
SIMGs are deemed non-comparable to a FACRRM if they cannot demonstrate the following requirements:
- Minimum of three (3) years providing clinical care away from ready access to specialist medical, diagnostic and allied health services, since achieving their specialist qualification
- Achieving their qualification through completion of a supervised training program
- Partial or substantial comparability in each of the eight domains
- Extended practice relevant to community needs
- Ongoing professional development that is comparable to MBA requirements
Find out more about the ACRRM Specialist Pathway in the Specialist Pathway Guide.
Fees
Application fee:
The application fee covers the cost of the application and the selection process. |
$775 |
Upon application |
Paper based assessment fee:
At commencement of the paper-based assessment stage. |
$660 |
Upon request |
Structured interview fee:
At commencement of the interview stage.
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$2,230 |
Upon request |
| Medical Educator session fee: |
$1,490 |
Before you commence |
Support fee:
Annual pathway fee ($2,860 annually) |
$715 |
Paid quarterly |
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ACRRM assessments fees:
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