General program information: The PEP Standard (PEP ST) journey to Fellowship

Step 1: Apply for PEP ST 

Step 2: Enrol in the PEP Entry Assessment

Step 3: Accept your offer

Step 4: Take part in PEP ST

Step 5: General Practice Experience (GPE) assessment

Prior to enrolling in any examination, participants must have completed a General Practice Experience (GPE) assessment.

GPE assessments can take up to 10 weeks to assess from the date of receiving a complete application. If you don't have a GPE assessment outcome by the close of enrolments for the relevant exam period, you'll be unable to enrol in the exam.

For more information see the Applying for a General Practice Experience Assessment guidance document.

Step 6: Post-education

Post-education starts once you finish your allocated training program time and ends at the time you attain Fellowship or have exhausted your exam candidacy.

The post-education component of PEP ST gives you time to fulfil Fellowship requirements, including accruing sufficient general practice experience (as assessed by the Assessment of General Practice Experience Policy) and completing Fellowship exams. It’s a maximum of three years following the education component, and it ends when you achieve Fellowship of the RACGP, exhaust your exam candidacy, enter another RACGP Fellowship program (such as AGPT), or withdraw from your Fellowship program (voluntarily or involuntarily). 

Step 7: Sit the exams

Upon completion of PEP ST, participants will be required to pass the RACGP Fellowship exams to be eligible for Fellowship.

There are three Fellowship exams:

• Applied Knowledge Test (AKT)
• Key Feature Problem (KFP)
• Clinical Examination - depending on the time of sitting, this is either the Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE), Remote Clinical Exam (RCE) or Clinical Competency Exam (CCE).

Step 8: Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP)

The attainment of FRACGP signifies that a GP has been assessed as competent across the core skills of general practice. It enables them to practice safely, unsupervised, anywhere in Australia.

In short, FRACGP denotes safe, specialised, high-quality general practice care.