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) |
HWC |
Health Workforce Certificate, required for OTDs to apply for a temporary visa, or permanent residency. Administered by the Visas for GPs Program |
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. |
RGTS |
Rural General Training Scheme |
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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