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RACGP Specialist Pathway Requirements

AMC Application requirements

The AMC verifies credentials by checking all of the following documents and completed forms.  Qualifications and identity documents must be submitted as certified copies with the application to the AMC. For more information please visit the AMC Website

• AMC forms SA (or P1) and SB
• primary medical degree, Educational International Credentials Service (EICS) verification via the Educational Commission for Foreign medical Graduates (ECFMG), Philadelphia
• overseas general practice specialist qualification, verification via EICS
• evidence of English language proficiency to the standard of the MBA’s policy
• curriculum vitae
• passport
• current medical registration from the overseas country of practice
• certificate of good standing from the government body that certifies general practice/family medicine in the country of practice.

The RACGP will require the following documentation (in addition to the above AMC requirements), which can be submitted to the AMC in the first application. If these documents are not submitted in the first application to the AMC, there may be a delay in processing the application by the RACGP.

Category 1 – Substantially Comparable

• documentary evidence of an offer of an approved general practice position in Australia, via a letter from the prospective employer or recruitment agency
• Evidence of participation in continuing professional development (including continuing medical education)

Category 2 – Partially Comparable

• documentary evidence of an offer of an approved general practice position in Australia, via a letter from the prospective employer or recruitment agency
• detailed position description
• Evidence of participation in continuing professional development (including continuing medical education)

Category 3 – Partially Comparable

• documentary evidence of an offer of an approved general practice position in Australia, via a letter from the prospective employer or recruitment agency
• detailed position description
• Evidence of participation in continuing professional development (including continuing medical education)
• evidence of a pass in the RACGP Applied Knowledge Test

Not comparable

Some IMGs will not meet the eligibility criteria for categorisation into the RACGP Specialist Pathway, and will be determined to be not comparable. This includes IMGs with existing Australian medical registration. IMGs with existing medical registration may be able to complete the College Fellowship assessment requirements via the RACGP Practice Eligible Route.

Please visit the AMC website for further guidance, www.amc.org.au/index.php/img

Fellow of the RACGP including conjoint examination

If you have been awarded Fellowship of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), either in Australia or through the conjoint examination in Malaysia or Hong Kong, you have completed all requirements to undertake unsupervised general practice anywhere in Australia. The RACGP Specialist Pathway is for doctors who are working toward Fellowship.

To practise in Australia, you also need to meet the requirements of the health jurisdiction in which you practise (such as the Medical Board of Australia dictates), and Australian Government legislation that may impose other requirements including the requirement of working an Areas of Workforce Need. Medical registration requirements are available via the Medical Board of Australia . Furthermore, different jurisdictions may impose separate requirements without prior warning.  The RACGP’s FAQs are updated regularly.  However, it is the responsibility of each doctor to make sure that he or she meets the current requirements of the jurisdiction in which they plan to practise.