Rural Procedural Grants Newsletter, March 2025
In this issue:
The latest news
Welcome to 2025, and a warm welcome to the first Rural Procedural Grants Program newsletter of the year! We look forward to helping you make the most of the program.
As we approach the final quarter of the 2024-25 financial year, we'd like to remind all participants to finalise any outstanding claims for 2023-24 activities by mid-June 2025. This will ensure timely processing and payment before the financial year closure.
More detailed information on end of financial year dates and cut-offs will be included in the next newsletter delivered in May 2025. In the meantime, we look forward to receiving your claims for your ongoing skills maintenance and upskilling training.
To ensure effective administration of the Rural Procedural Grants Program, the RACGP and ACRRM have established the Procedural Medicine Collaboration (PMC) forum. This forum enables joint discussions on key aspects of the program, including eligibility, accreditation, appeals, and program review.
In February 2025, the PMC met alongside RACGP and ACRRM grant administration teams, RACGP Rural representatives, and Department of Health and Aged Care representatives in Sydney, NSW. This was a great opportunity to discuss some topical program items and future direction of the grants program. Please watch this space and your inboxes, any changes to program guidelines will be communicated primarily by email. If you have updated your email or other contact details recently, please don't’ forget to let us know.
If becoming a PMC RACGP representative for either Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics or Surgery is something that interests you, please respond to any expression of interest (EOI) call outs which will occur when a position is vacant. Feel free to contact the team if you would like some more information.
Is the RACGP your CPD home? If so, you can follow the steps below to locate and identify a selection of grant approved activities for the various grant components.
Firstly, navigate to the RACGP website and log into your account.
- Under the top tab Education, select CPD Home, then Browse Activities.
- In the filter pane to the left of the screen, under Activity Criteria – tick the box that says Rural Procedural Grants eligible. You will then see all activities marked as grant eligible.
- When you see one that has interest for you, click View Activity, then on the left of the page you will see Grants eligible and it will indicate the component/s it is currently eligible for.
We hope that this may assist with determining course eligibility. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and we can review any activity that you are interested in completing to maintain or upskill your emergency and/or procedural skills. If there is a course you would like us to review, please email us through the details of the course you are looking to attend and a copy of the program.
Overseas activity approval
Following the reinstating of overseas held course eligibility, we want to remind all participants that all international activities must be pre-approved before they are attended. This is to ensure that the activity meets the grant criteria and to avoid disappointment. Please note that even if an activity is by an Australian provider, if the activity itself is held overseas, we still request overseas pre-approval before attendance.
Our new overseas activity pre-approval application form makes applying for pre-approval a simpler process. To apply, please follow the link and fill out the requested information and attach a copy of the activity program.
We recommend providing the grants team with adequate time to be able to review the activity, however if it’s in a tight timeframe, please reach out to us via email. If you have a deadline, waiting on a response for a travel booking or registration we will provide advice.
The 2025 RWAV Conference in Bendigo this February was a resounding success! We were thrilled to connect with over 250 attendees, including GPs, interns, and medical students. The RACGP team was out in full force, and it was a fantastic two days of engaging conversations and networking. The RACGP team will have a strong presence at rural conferences across Australia throughout the year. We look forward to seeing you there!
You can access documents related to the grants program such as the updated supervised clinical attachment form and the program guidelines by navigating to the bottom of our webpage under ‘Related documents’ Upcoming courses
Face-to-face courses
Online courses