Important Information for doctors considering General Practice Training in the Northern Territory
NTGPE Mandatory Requirements
Additional Information
What happens next?
Northern Territory General Practice Education (NTGPE) placements are based around community workforce need with consideration to individual General Practice Registrars’ personal situations. We are looking to train doctors with a particular interest in Indigenous health or rural and remote practice, including Rural Medical Generalist. The Northern Territory has a great variety of contexts allowing for a broad range of training. Our aim is that General Practice Registrars are trained to become fully equipped to work anywhere in Australia for the rest of their career; and we encourage our Registrars to move out into community practice at the earliest appropriate opportunity to experience the full range of General Practice options.
The four main training contexts we have on offer are:
- Town based Aboriginal Health Placements – including Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Services (ACCHSs)
- Mainstream General Practices
- Remote Community clinics
- Regional hospital posts
NTGPE employ experienced Medical Educators who between them have a range of experience in working as General Practitioners and delivering training across the range of contexts. The team facilitates delivery of both ACRRM and RACGP training pathways and work to develop innovative ways of delivering supervision and education in challenging contexts including recent projects to deliver core training in community based placement including paediatric, anaesthetics and obstetric posts. As an NTGPE Registrar you will also experience and benefit from a high degree of cultural education integrated through all your training and during workshops, small group learning sessions and External Clinical Teaching Visits (ECTVs) in particular.
In accepting a training position with us all you agree to abide by NTGPE, General Practice Education Training (GPET) and the relevant College (RACGP or ACRRM) policies and training requirements and the changes made to them throughout their time in the training program.
NTGPE Mandatory Requirements
NTGPE Mandatory Requirements vary by GP Registrar Training Cohort, these are outlined in the NTGPE Training Requirements by Cohort document.
1. Variety of Training Posts
All NTGPE Registrars are required to experience a broad range of training posts including:-
- A minimum of 18 months of General Practice Term or PRRT training terms with NTGPE
- A minimum quota of community based Aboriginal Health Training (minimum 2 days per week over a 6 month period)
- A six month full time equivalent (FTE) mainstream placement (can be undertaken as part time for full year e.g. for those also practising procedural skills in regional hospitals)
- A six month full time equivalent (FTE) Remote Post, being anything greater than 100kms from Alice Springs or Darwin
- Maximum of 12 months FTE training in any one post
2. Workshops
NTGPE offer three workshops in the first year of training and a variety of clinical and Aboriginal health sessions, one of which is usually at a remote location giving you the opportunity to appreciate of the breadth of the Territory:
- Attendance at GP Registrar Orientation when you commence 2015.1 19 January and 2015.2 20 July 2015
- Attendance at two workshops in the first year of training
3. NTGPE Training Advisor (TA) Meetings: Face-to-Face, Skype or Teleconference
Your Training Advisor (an allocated NTGPE Medical Educator) will be available to meet with you as often as you like to work closely to tailor your training program to meet your learning and personal needs. This will include at least
- One pre-commencement meeting
- Two meetings per year with your Training Advisor
4. External Clinical Teaching Visits (ECTV) and Mini-CEX
Five External Clinical Teaching Visits (one of which is a video consultation) – this includes the formative mini-CEX for ACRRM Registrars
5. Teaching and Education
- Completion of GP Start (a formative assessment tool) during GPT1/PRRT1 terms
- Attendance of forty hours Small Group Learning (SGL) over three training terms, plus completion of session quiz
- Evidence of delivery of a minimum of four external teaching per year to peers, colleagues, prevocational doctors and students
- Formulation and regular modification of a Professional Development Plan
6. Recognition of Prior Learning
NTGPE welcomes applicants who intend to seek Recognition of Prior Learning for some of their previous experiences. Our team will work with you to ensure that your training plan includes the relevant RPL applications and your training experiences with us complement what you have already done. If you have already discussed RPL with a College please let us know this at the time of your selection interview.
Additional Information
1. GP Registrar Placement Process
NTGPE’s placement process is largely Registrar led with input from your NTGPE Training Advisor who will help you choose appropriate choices to develop your skills across the range of contexts. We endeavour to offer a single window of placement opportunity during August and September of any given year to allocate placement for the whole of the following twelve months.
2. Non GP terms
NTGPE continues to develop a large array of hospital and community posts that can be used for parts of your training to enhance your skills as needed in our Northern Territory communities – these include the traditional procedural skills including Anaesthetics and Obstetrics but also include Medical Education, Aboriginal Health Policy, Palliative Care, Public Health, Drugs and Alcohol, General Medicine posts, with more under development. Our Medical Educators work to ensure that all GP Registrars undertake posts that fully equip them to provide the range of services needed by the communities you chose to work in in the short and long term.
What happens next?
2015 Applications close 9 May and can be made at www.gpet.com.au
To discuss your own training possibilities we encourage you to contact us before application!
Please call your friendly GP Registrar Support Team on 08 8946 7079 for further information or to make a time to speak with a Medical Educator about your training ideas and plans.
NTGPE will be undertaking Stage 3 local interviews for 2015 intake from 5 to 8 August 2014. Applicants must be available for interviews during this period. These interviews will be undertaken by administration, medical and cultural education staff and will explore your individual training needs and plans, your suitability for our training program and any questions you have. Interviews will be offered face to face in Darwin and Alice Springs and by phone.
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