The hospital time (being two years) must be met by doing hospital rotations and cannot be substituted by GP time unless the up to three months is a rotation sanctioned by the hospital and undertaken whilst employed as an RMO – i.e. as per a PGPPP model.
If the registrar submits an RPL application which is deemed insufficient, the registrar must undertake hospital and community posts to make up the shortfall. The making up of the shortfall can include up to three months in general practice; however, this is at the discretion of the Censor and relies upon the registrar being deemed as having sufficient breadth and recency of hospital experience. The undertaking of a general practice term would only be available however if the registrar had not previously undertaken a general practice rotation, i.e. three months is the maximum that can potentially be substituted for hospital experience.
Please note:
The registrar is responsible for providing information pertaining to their RPL application that allows the censor to make a clear judgment that the candidate has gained useful experience from the post and that the term was completed successfully. Inadequate, incomplete or unverifiable documentation submitted is likely to lead to delays in the assessment and/or possible rejection. The onus to collate and prepare the documentation rests with the applicant in consultation with their RTO.
Competency assessment is based on the level of the individual and not the post undertaken. The applicant should engage with the process in good faith and submit only those terms they assess have genuinely helped prepare them for undertaking a career in general practice.