Practice Experience Program Specialist (PEP SP) Participant Handbook - Substantially Comparable Stream

Training program

Reclassification as Partially Comparable

Workplace based assessments

Reclassification as Partially Comparable

If you are assessed as not meeting the required Fellowship standards after your second attempt at the WBAs, you will have a meeting with your ME to review your results, receive feedback, and discuss your transfer to the PC stream and its implications. 

 Important!
If you are reclassified as Partially Comparable, you’ll need to meet the location requirements for the partially comparable stream. This may mean you’ll need to move and find a new practice in an MM2-MM7 location, even if you were previously working in an MM1 DPA practice under the Substantially Comparable stream. This is part of ensuring you meet the General Practice Fellowship Placement Guidelines.

When you transfer to the PC stream, you will not be required to complete the training program again (Part D). As illustrated in Figure 8, you will commence on the PC stream directly in Part E, which is the period when you can prepare for and attempt the Fellowship exams.



Figure 8: PEP SP journey on PC stream
 

Impact on program time cap

As a participant on the PC stream, your program time cap will be adjusted as below:

  • If you are working in your practice on a full-time basis, your time cap will be increased from one to two calendar years. Any time already completed on the SC stream will contribute to your revised time cap.
  • If you are working in your practice on a part-time basis, your time cap will be increased from two to four calendar years pro-rata. Any time already completed on the SC stream will contribute to your revised time cap. For detailed information about the Fellowship exams and the exam preparation activities available to you on the PC stream, go to the PEP SP Participant Handbook - Partially Comparable Stream.

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