Apply for the Practice Experience Program (PEP SP) pathway
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To apply for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Practice Experience Program Specialist (PEP SP) pathway you will need to sign up for an RACGP member ID. This process takes approximately five minutes. Once you have an RACGP ID, you will have access to the online PEP Specialist application form.
Please read the PEP Specialist Application handbook, the PEP Specialist Comparability Assessment Guide, and the PEP Specialist Comparability Assessment eligibility criteria before applying for a comparability assessment.
RACGP medical assessors will review your comparability assessment application to determine comparability to an Australian-trained specialist general practitioner at the point of Fellowship.
Where the RACGP receives publicly available information that may inform the assessment decision, applicants will be given the opportunity to make a submission about the information.
On completion of the comparability assessment, applicants will be assessed as Substantially Comparable, Partially Comparable or Not Comparable. Applicants who are assessed as Substantially Comparable and Partially Comparable are eligible to apply for the PEP Specialist.
Receiving a program agreement
Once you have received an eligible outcome for all three parts of the application process (listed below) you will be issued a program agreement and a link to pay the program fee.
- Comparability Assessment (Part A)
- Job offer approval assessment (Part B)
- Right to work assessment (Part C)
You can enter the program (Part D) after fulfilling all entry requirements, this includes returning a signed program agreement; and paying the program fee. Your six-month program will start once you commence working with an RACGP PEP Provider Number at your approved practice.
Once on the PEP Specialist, participants must satisfactorily meet all program and Fellowship requirements before being admitted to Fellowship of the RACGP (FRACGP).
For more information about the PEP Specialist application process, please refer to the PEP Specialist Application handbook or email educationsupport@racgp.org.au.
For full details of entry, program and Fellowship requirements, please refer to our PEP Specialist policy page or email pepspecialistadmin@racgp.org.au.