Medical Training Review Panel 19th Report

Accreditation

The college accredits training settings that provide a suitable environment for physician education. Site visits are undertaken as required to verify that criteria relating to the environment for teaching and learning are satisfied. Basic and advanced training specialties all have customised accreditation processes with levels of accreditation depending on the teaching and learning opportunities available at the facility.

Further Information

Royal Australasian College of Physicians

RACP – THE AUSTRALASIAN FACULTY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE⁹

Training Program

The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM)’s training program is focused on the ability to assess a person's fitness for work, facilitate return to work of a person after injury or illness, and identify ways in which work or environment harms health so as to negotiate effective prevention and to respond to the needs of courts and tribunals. The AFOEM training program encourages trainees to assess the effects of harmful exposures in places where they occur, to research the health effects of new and developing work activities and technologies, and to seek and seize opportunities to foster prevention.

Trainees are required to participate in training review meetings, complete six-monthly training status reports, learning plans, formative assessments and work a minimum of twenty hours¹⁰ per week in occupational and environmental medicine.

Trainees can apply to prospectively interrupt their training at any time but cannot undertake any assessment components during the time of interruption. Interrupted training is allowed but the training program must be completed within the 10 year time limit. Interruptions of more than 12 continuous months may require additional assessments (determined on a case-by-case basis). Interruptions of more than 24 continuous months may require additional training time and/or assessments (determined on a case-by-case basis).

A maximum period of 24 months of full-time parental leave can be excluded from the time limit to complete training.