Dave BellSearching for a GP job in Australia includes the use of a lot of specialist terminology. Its summarised here, to help you navigate the system.
| 19AA | Medicare legislation designed to recognise and support general practice as a vocational specialty | |
| 19AB | Medicare legislation restricting overseas trained doctors from accessing Medicare benefits unless they work in certain locations and meet eligibility requirements under the Health Insurance Act of 1973 | |
| ACRRM | Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine | |
| AHPRA | Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency | |
| AGPT | Australian General Practice Training program. The AGPT program is a postgraduate vocational training program for medical graduates wishing to pursue a career in general practice and/or rural and remote medicine in Australia. | |
| AMC | Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent national standards and assessment body for medical education and training. | |
| DPA | Distribution Priority Area (previously District of Workforce Shortage (DWS)) | |
| FSP | Fellowship Support Program (replacing Practice Experience Program PEP) | |
| Kruk Review | Australian government review that enabled reform of Medical Registration, in particular of General Practitioners. | |
| IMG | International Medical Graduate. Medical Practitioners whose medical qualifications are from a medical school outside of Australia or New Zealand. | |
| MM level | Modified Monash level (Measure of remoteness for a location) | |
| OTD | Overseas Trained Doctors and foreign graduates are health professionals who attained their medical qualification outside Australia or New Zealand, or who weren’t citizens when they enrolled in medical school. | |
| Expedited Pathway | AHPRA Expedited Pathway, enabling MRCGP, MICGP and RNZCGP qualified doctors to become Specialist Registered Doctors with AHPRA in a faster timeframe. | |
| RVTS | Rural Vocational Training Scheme | |
| RACGP | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners | |
| RACGP fellowship exam #1 | AKT | Applied Knowledge Test (computer-based assessment) |
| RACGP fellowship exam #2 | KFP | Key Feature Problems (assessment of clinical reasoning) |
| RACGP fellowship exam #3 | CCE | Clinical Competency Exam (CCE) (replaced Remote Clinical Exam (RCE), and Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE)) |
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