6.5 General practice trainee demographics

AGPT Program and PEP participants are training in every Australian state and territory (Figure 66). There were more than 5500 GPs in pre-Fellowship training in 2019 (Figure 67).

As with previous years, there are more female AGPT trainees (61%) than male trainees (39%).⁵⁹ The number of registrars achieving FRACGP is increasing each year, and there are consistently more female general practice registrars attaining FRACGP than their male counterparts (Figure 68).

In 2019, 46 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors graduated from medical programs in Australia. In Australian medical schools in 2020, there were 404 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, representing 2.7% of total domestic students. This has increased from 265 in 2014 (1.8% of total domestic students). In 2020, 121 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students started studying medicine, which is a 55% increase over the past three years.⁶⁰

As discussed in section 2.2.5, general practice is the preferred specialty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical graduates. In 2019, there were 69 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the AGPT Program.⁵⁹