ARST information – from 2022

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 who started training before 2022 who have not yet commenced their ARST can choose to undertake these curriculums, or the old curriculums.

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