What Does The Generalist Pathway Offer
Career Navigation
The Generalist pathway offers trainee’s mentoring, support and career guidance and advice when and where you need it. Our team will support you to navigate and avoid potential career pitfalls offering administrative support ongoing mentoring and support on a personal and professional level as needed. This allows that trainee to focus on training opportunities and optimize career progression.
Flexible Training
The Generalist pathway offers a tailored career pathway that allows progression at your pace. If fast tracking your training is important to you then the program can be tailored, and we can support you to get further faster. If you prefer a slower more relaxed pace that offers optimal training opportunities and the opportunity to gain more experience, then we will tailor that path specific to your needs.
Opportunity
We Offer all PGY 1 & 2 trainees’ access to a variety of specialties and diverse environments ensuring a diverse variety of opportunities in a rural setting. Ongoing future employment opportunities financial supported and ongoing specialized training throughout the program.
Lifestyle
The Generalist Pathway not only qualifies you for life as a Rural Generalist, it also sets you up for a career in almost any other medical field. Our Fellows go on to roles in rural generalism, clinical leadership, international aid work, expeditionary and retrieval medicine and provide valuable services to communities in need nationally and internationally.
Clinical Skills
Essential emergency skills and knowledge (including trauma, obstetric skills, internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry, women in rural practice and retrieval medicine); and other essential skills and knowledge particular to the remote setting
The Nature Of Remote Communities
Issues such as support structures and family issues, professional boundary issues, confidentiality, social and cultural influences of mental health, home visiting protocols, and cultural frameworks.
Public Health
Remote population health, public health infrastructure, disease control, remote environmental health, remote preventive medicine, relevant legislation, community roles, and the role of the remote doctor as community advocate and government medical officer.
Aboriginal And Torrens Strait Islander Health
The health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and comparison with the health status of non-Indigenous Australians; the diagnosis and management of the common diseases that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; the impact of history and current social, environmental, political and cultural factors on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and the provision of culturally appropriate, accessible health services.
Management Skills And Professional Networks
Effective practice management and integration with other health services, teamwork, support networks, media management in crises, information technology applications, and developing healthcare projects.
Self-Care
Areas such as professional development strategies, self-analysis, working in a remote context and stress management.
Advanced Skills Training
Twelve months of training is available to registrars in advanced skills curricula such as anaesthetics, obstetrics, emergency medicine, Aboriginal health, paediatrics, mental health, adult internal medicine, surgery, remote medicine, population health, and small rural town practice. Advanced skills training is a curriculum requirement for the FACRRM and FARGP. ACRRM Advanced Specialised Training Curricula are available on the ACRRM website.
The program is designed to accommodate the circumstances of remote practice and provide the best possible educational experience.
Training is provided via distance education and supervision is facilitated remotely. Program delivery is flexible and designed to meet a participant’s individual needs.
Education is delivered via:
Live weekly webinars: Registrars participate in weekly, 60-90-minute education sessions via webinar using ZOOM.
Face-to-face workshops: Twice a year registrars meet at a central location for an intensive, five-day education workshop that covers topics best learnt face-to-face. There are opportunities for networking and socialising and families can travel with registrars.
Clinical teaching visits: An UDRH supervisor or experienced rural practitioner will visits the registrar to sit in on consultations and provide feedback.
Remote supervision: Each registrar is allocated a supervisor who acts as a mentor, providing educational advice and support.
AGPT program structure
The AGPT program typically takes three to four years full-time to complete, depending on which fellowship pathway you select. RACGP requires three years full-time equivalent training and ACRRM requires four years full-time equivalent training. Registrars pursuing RACGP can also choose to undertake an optional fourth year in pursuit of a Fellowship in Advanced Rural General Practice (FARGP). JCU strongly encourages RACGP registrars to enrol in FARGP.
Full-time training on the AGPT program (1.0 FTE) consists of 38 hours per week of training, which includes practice time, administration, and education.
PGY 1 & 2 Prevocational Plus — 2 years
Find your calling.
As an intern and Junior House Officer, you lay the foundations for your future career. Access a wide range of training experiences to help you decide the next step on your career path.
Priority access
Guaranteed access to term experience in O&G, paediatrics, anaesthetics, mental health, Palliative care, geriatrics and Emergency and trauma Medicine.
Experience more
Access additional hands-on training, with a wide variety of presentations in special extended rural terms. Attend our exclusive workshops, designed to build your professional network, and gain important extra skills to progress your career faster.
Career guidance
Get expert advice when you need it most, with scheduled and unscheduled contact from your Career Navigator, an experienced practising clinician.
On-call support
You’re never alone. From personal and family matters to important deadlines and admin task reminders, we’re here by your side and on the end of the phone or face to face.
PGY 3 Advanced Skills Training — 1 to 2 years
Build your knowledge.
As a Rural Generalist, you’ll need general practice plus additional skills. Master the advanced skills needed in your future rural community. As a Registrar/PHO, spend your time learning about and working in your AST discipline. We work with your general practice training providers to help keep your training on track.
Targeted training
Exclusive Advance Skills Training boot camps to get you career ready.
Stay on track
We check accreditation to ensure that you avoid positions that add nothing to your Fellowship training and help you find the discipline that best fits your career goals. But if you find it’s not working out, we’ll support you to continue to progress your career, while helping you find another position.
Recruitment assistance
Fill out one form, do one interview, then we match you with available and suitable positions.
On-call support
Your Career Navigator and the team work hard to get to know you and are available to help troubleshoot any personal or professional challenges you may face.
PGY 4 & 5 Vocational Training — 2 years
Expand your skills.
Develop and hone your skills to become the doctor you’ve always wanted to be with on the ground generalist training in a hospital, community general practice, or other setting. Make a difference as an integral member of the clinical team in a rural community.
Step up and stand out
Employers seek out Pathway Trainees for their superior skills and experience. Leadership training is embedded throughout the Pathway. You can formalise this with a leadership qualification developed specifically for Pathway Trainees.
One stop for jobs
We find and list available, accredited hospital jobs in rural Queensland and have an extensive network across the state for general practice vacancies.
Career check up
We help ensure you’re not missing anything in the lead up to your Fellowship.
On-call support
Our team transitions with you as your challenges change; we’re here to help work through any on the ground issues that may impact your ability to adjust and grow your career.