Linking the RACGP curriculum to vocational education

Introduction

Regional training providers face many challenges in delivering vocational training to general practice registrars across Australia. They need to be able to respond to new learning theories and the ever expanding volume of medical knowledge, as well as the changing medical workforce.

In 2008, the Victorian Metropolitan Alliance (VMA) embarked on a project to map the new Royal Australian College of General Practitioners curriculum to the VMA program. The aim of this article is to describe the processes through which the VMA created a curriculum guide for peer learning workshops, supervisors and registrars, designed to be adaptable to various Australian curricula and to be flexible and robust, as well as accessible to the intended users.