Policies and documents related to the PEP Specialist Stream
Policies
Guidance documents
Previous Specialist Program Policies
The Practice Experience Program – Specialist Stream is the pathway to Fellowship of the RACGP available to specialist international medical graduates (SIMGs). Previous iterations of this pathway include the Specialist Pathway Program (SPP), which ran from 2010 to 2018, and categorised SIMGs as Category 1, 2 or 3; and the Specialist Recognition Program (SRP), which superseded the SPP from 2018 to 2019 following release of updated Medical Board of Australia Guidelines – Supervised Practice of International medical graduates
From 1 September 2019, the specialist pathway to Fellowship will fall under the RACGP’s Practice Experience Program as a specialist stream.
Specialist Recognition Program (SRP):
The following policies refer to the SRP. If you applied to the SRP between the 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019 and were assessed as either substantially or partially comparable, please refer to the following policies:
Policy documents Specialist Pathway prior to 31 August 2019
Policies
Comparability Assessment Policy
Specialist Recognition Program Substantially Comparable Entry Policy
Specialist Recognition Program Partially Comparable Entry Policy
Specialist Recognition Program Substantially Comparable Post-Fellowship Requirements
Specialist Recognition Program Partially Comparable Requirements for Fellowship
Specialist Recognition Program Exam Eligibility
Assessment of General Practice Experience Policy
Specialist Pathway FAEG Policy
Document
FAEG Extension request
Specialist Pathway Program (SPP):
The following policies refer to the SPP. If you applied to the SPP before 31 August 2018 and were assessed as Category one, two or three, please refer to the following policies:
Policies
Specialist Pathway Category Two Entry Policy
Specialist Pathway Category Two Fellowship Policy
Specialist Pathway Category Two Exam Eligibility Policy
Specialist Pathway Category Three - Entry Policy
Specialist Pathway Category Three - Examination Eligibility Policy
Specialist Pathway Category Three Fellowship Policy
Specialist Pathway FAEG Policy
For all RACGP Fellowship pathways policies, please see the Fellowship Pathways Policy Framework.