Eligibility

PEP Specialist Stream eligibility requirements

Specialist international medical graduates (SIMGs) must undertake a comparability assessment to determine eligibility to apply for entry into the PEP Specialist Stream Program.

Please read the Practice Experience Program – Specialist Stream Comparability Policy and review the list of comparability assessment criteria before you apply for a comparability assessment here.

There are three parts to the application process for assessing your eligibility to enter the Program:

Part A – Comparability assessment

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

1. Hold a specialist general practice qualification with a recognised curriculum and provide evidence of the training route completed and assessments undertaken
2. Assessment type - completed a summative assessment comprising both theoretical and practical components equivalent to those utilised within the RACGP examinations.
3. Recency of practice - your experience within both the last 12 months and last four years must meet the requirements of the Practice Experience Program – Specialist Stream Assessment of Recency Policy
4. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - completion of 50 hours CPD in the last 12 months
5. Continuity of practice - explain any gaps in clinical practice of longer than three months

If you do not meet the eligibility criteria for the PEP Specialist Stream, you may consider the Fellowship Support Program (FSP) to support your journey to the FRACGP. Please refer to the Fellowship Pathways Policy Framework for further information.

Applicants who receive a comparability outcome categorisation of Substantially Comparable or Partially Comparable will proceed to Part B.

Part B – Job offer approval application

1. Your job must meet the minimum part-time requirement of 14.5 hours over 2 days
2. Your job must be in comprehensive general practice in an approved practice location

These definitions are found in the Assessment of General Practice Experience Policy

Applicants with an approved job offer will proceed to Part C.  

Part C – Right to work application

Applicants must provide evidence of the following:

1. Visa details including evidence of visa type
2. Health workforce certificate
3. Australian medical registration

Curricula classification

Curricula assessed as Substantially Comparable

Curricula assessed as Partially Comparable

Curricula assessed as Not Comparable

Curricula not listed

If you hold the International Conjoint Fellowship of the RACGP (ICFRACGP) and you wish to apply for the PEP Specialist Stream, please email us at educationsupport@racgp.org.au for more information.

If your curriculum is not listed, your training curriculum has not been assessed against the RACGP Curriculum. Your curriculum must be assessed before you can apply for a comparability assessment.

To have your curriculum assessed, you must provide the following:

1. An official copy of your specialist general practice college/training organisation/Medical Board training curriculum
2. An official letter from your Training Organisation confirming:
   1. this is their curriculum;
   2. curriculum year;
   3. the specialist general practice qualification it leads to; and
   4. the year you obtained this qualification.

To support your curriculum comparison application, please also provide an official document from the college, training organisation or Medical Board that outlines their good medical practice guidelines and ethics.

If any of these documents are not in English, you must provide a copy of the original and an official English translation.

Please complete the interactive application form, print, sign and return all documents to the RACGP scanned by email to educationsupport@racgp.org.au

Curriculum assessments take up to 10 weeks to assess. Assessors will review your specialist colleges’ curriculum against the RACGP curriculum.