Additional Rural Skills Training requirements
The Rural Generalist (RG) Fellowship is a qualification awarded by the RACGP in addition to the vocational Fellowship (FRACGP). Completion of a minimum 12 months of Additional Rural Skills Training (ARST) in an accredited training post is an essential component of training towards the RG Fellowship.
This additional training is designed to strengthen your core general practice training by providing an opportunity for rural GPs to develop additional skills and expertise in a particular area and enhance their capability to provide secondary-level care to their community.
Curriculums
Each curriculum sets out the competencies that GPs in training are required to develop to complete their ARST. It also provides a framework for the teaching and learning of the critical knowledge, skills and attitudes that rural GPs require to effectively deliver appropriate inpatient and outpatient in rural and remote communities, where specialist support is often limited.
These curriculums are effective for all Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) and Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) candidates training from 2022 onwards. Current candidates (except for Anaesthesia candidates) who started training before 2022 who have not yet commenced their ARST can choose to undertake these curriculums, or the old curriculums.
RG Fellowship candidates are given a maximum timeframe of four years (FTE) to complete the RG Fellowship requirements
To assist GPs in training with completing the requirements during their GP training, a further 12 months (FTE) from the RACGP Fellow date to complete the non-clinical requirements as a GP in training is permitted. After this time registrars will be withdrawn from the RG Fellowship and will need to re-enrol in the practising GP pathway.
A RG Fellowship candidate will be withdrawn from RACGP Rural should they fail to complete:
The RACGP Rural team collaborates with general practitioners to ensure education programs are designed and delivered by GPs and reflect the challenges of working in rural Australia.
Feedback from GPs enrolled in the program, or from GPs interested in taking part, is always welcome. Feedback can be sent to the RACGP Rural Manager via rural@racgp.org.au
Members or stakeholders wishing to raise opportunities or issues with the Rural Education Committee can address their feedback to Rural Education Committee Chair and send it to rg@racgp.org.au
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