Adverse events (including critical incidents)

Adverse events (including critical incidents)

Under Australian Medical Council requirements, the RACGP is responsible for ensuring the safety of registrars and patients. An adverse event must be reported to us via the TMS adverse event module if it involves a registrar or impacts their training. This process is not an investigation but provides the RACGP the opportunity to support, educate and explore the event with the relevant stakeholders. It also enables the provision of safe learning environments and continuous improvement of training programs.

Your training site must have processes in place to manage adverse events, critical incidents and near misses whether they involve registrars, supervisors and/or the training site itself. It's important you understand your training site’s processes. Refer to the Adverse event webpage.

Reporting an incident or event 

It’s your responsibility to report incidents and events via the TMS adverse event module as soon as possible. The privacy of your report will be protected (your report will only be accessible to RACGP staff who require access).