Employment Type: Temporary Various
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM29660
Are you a Junior Doctor considering a career as a Rural Generalist and want to experience the diverse rewards of rural
medicine? Opportunities exist for Advanced Skills Training positions across NSW for 2027.
Where you'll be working
Regional NSW
What you'll be doing
NSW Health aims to grow a dedicated and sustained Rural Generalist medical workforce to assist in improving access, quality, and sustainability of primary health care services for rural and remote communities.
NSW Health established the NSW Rural Generalist Medical Training Program (RGTP) to provide a supported pathway for junior doctors wishing to pursue a career as a Rural Generalist able to provide primary care in a general practice setting as well as advanced services and /or procedural skills in a rural hospital.
Rural Generalist trainees on the RGTP pathway will undertake learning and professional development activities with the aim of progressing through training to achieve at least one advanced skill and Fellowship of either or both the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) or the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners-Rural Generalist (RACGP-RG).
NSW Rural Generalist Training Program Advanced Skills Training (AST)
This is a direct entry into a RGTP 12-month advanced skills training post in either Anaesthetics, Obstetrics, Palliative Medicine, Paediatrics, Mental Health, Emergency Medicine or Adult Internal Medicine (Pilot)
AST opportunities are currently available in the following NSW Health LHD's: Far West, Hunter New England, Mid North Coast, Murrumbidgee, Illawarra Shoalhaven, Northern NSW, Southern NSW, and Western NSW.
Entry to the position is suitable for Rural Generalist trainees who are enrolled in GP training and have college approval to undertake Advanced Skills training.
This is a 12-month contract only, trainees will be engaged under existing NSW Awards and determinations while undertaking advanced skills training. Trainees with previous primary care experience as a General Practice trainee will be preferred.
