Completing Part A

You must complete a CV using the template provided in the application form. Your CV must be completed and dated within the three months preceding the submission of your application and list all your clinical experience from graduation to current, including a written explanation for any gaps in clinical practice greater than three calendar months.

In addition to your CV, you must provide evidence of all the clinical posts you’ve held in the past 48 calendar months.

For each post, you must provide a letter of support from the practice where you worked. Each letter must:

• be on practice letterhead,
• be dated and signed by the Practice Principal (preferably), Senior Medical Director, CEO, Director, or Practice Manager, and
• state the following:
  • the specific dates you were employed in the practice,
  • whether you worked full-time or part-time,
  • the average amount of hours worked each week,
  • the duration of your weekly sessions (eg Monday to Friday, 9am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-5pm),
  • a detailed description of the duties you were required to perform
• include a summary of the patient demographics and presentations you treated in the role.

Letters using duplicated templates won’t be accepted.

Upload certified copies of:

• your primary medical degree certificate,
• your specialist general practice qualification certificate,
• your certificate of completion of training (where relevant),
• a confirmation letter from the body which awarded your specialist qualification, stating the pathway followed and the summative assessments undertaken to gain the specialist qualification (this letter is sometimes referred to as a Letter of Good Standing), and
• a description of the theoretical and practical summative assessments undertaken as part of your specialist general practice qualification (100–300 words each), from official resources of the awarding body or written in your own words.

See Appendix 1 for a list of recognised summative assessments.

The RACGP recognises that international specialist colleges may run assessments that differ from those listed in appendix 1, but which may be equivalent or comparable in principle and structure. For assessments not listed, outline and provide evidence of why these assessments should be taken into consideration (eg letter of support from the specialist college with the assessment’s requirements and structure and sample exam questions, psychometrics, and public reports when available).

Provide evidence of medical registration for all jurisdictions of practice since you obtained your specialist general practice qualification (with expiry dates if applicable).

You must also disclose to the RACGP details of any:

• addenda on your medical registration, whether in Australia or overseas, and
• regulatory authority activity, whether in Australia or overseas, that:
  • has led or may lead to a change in registration status, or
  • has led to an adverse finding or forms part of an ongoing investigation, and

• other notifiable conduct.

If you fail to disclose this information, it will be handled as per the Academic Misconduct Policy.

Provide evidence that you’ve completed 50 hours of CPD in the 12 months prior to applying for your comparability assessment.

The RACGP will only consider CPD activities substantiated by evidence (eg an official certificate or statement of completion issued by the body that delivered the activity).

• the nature of the activity,
• the date(s) the activity was undertaken, and
• the number of hours completed per activity.