Medical Training Review Panel 19th Report

Consolidated Summary Tables

Table B1: Summary of specialty training requirements and entry time, 2015

College/Faculty/Training organisation	Training requirements
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)	5 years full-time (0.5 years introductory training, 1.5 years basic, 2 years advanced and one year provisional fellowship)
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Faculty of Pain Medicine (ANZCA-FPM)	2 years full-time. Training can commence following completion of at least 3 years of a primary specialist qualification.
Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (RACDS)	4 years full-time and assessments (including SST and Final Examinations) Entry following the Surgery in General (SIG) year
Australasian College of Dermatologists (ACD)	4 years full-time – trainees who do not pass both written and clinical fellowship examinations and satisfy all other training requirements in their fourth year may be invited to undertake a fifth year of training This will be dependent upon the availability of a Fellow to oversee the trainee in a non-accredited training position and at the discretion of the National Training Committee Can enter after completing PGY1 and PGY2
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)	1 year provisional training full-time equivalent 4 years advanced training full-time equivalent
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)	3 years full-time Optional 4th year for Advanced Skills training and for academic post May apply in PGY1 and can enter after completing PGY2
College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM)	6 months of Foundation Training (undertaken prior to selection into the training program) 24 months core Intensive Care training 12 months Clinical Anaesthesia training 12 months Clinical Medicine training Approximately 12 months elective training (amount dependent on assessment by the College) 12 months of Transition Year training
Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA)	3 years full-time Can enter after 3 years clinical experience
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)	6 years full-time Years 1-4 in the Core Training Program (as at 1 December 2013) Years 5-6 in the Advanced Training Program (as at 1 December 2013) Can enter after completing PGY2
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO)	5 years full-time 2 years basic training 2 years advanced training 1 final year (fellowship year) Can enter after completing PGY2
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)	5 years full-time Can enter after completing PGY1
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Adult Medicine (RACP-AM)	3 years basic training full-time and assessments (including Written and Clinical Examinations) 3 or more years advanced training full-time equivalent Can enter after completing PGY1
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Paediatrics and Child Health (RACP-PCH)	3 years basic training full- time and assessments (including Written and Clinical Examinations) 3 or more years advanced training full-time equivalent Can enter after completing PGY1
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (RACP-AFOEM)	4 years full-time (approximately) Can enter after completing 2 full-time years of general clinical experience Can enter in PGY3
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (RACP-AFPHM)	3 years full-time equivalent Can enter after completing at least 3 years of postgraduate medical experience and completion of, or enrolment in, a Masters of Public Health Medicine (or comparable degree), which includes the faculty's core discipline areas
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (RACP-AFRM)