2025 Learning, teaching, and assessment programs
2025 Learning, teaching, and assessment programs
Advanced Training in Cardiology (Paediatrics & Child Health)
Learning, teaching, and assessment requirements
Learning
Professional experience
Professional experience
- Complete at least 36 months of relevant professional experience in accredited core clinical training positions.
Location of training
- Complete training in at least 2 different accredited training settings (may include prospectively approved overseas training time).
- Complete at least 24 months of training in accredited training settings in Australia and/or Aotearoa New Zealand.
Rotation plan
Requirement
1 x rotation plan per rotation.
Description
The rotation plan is a work-based tool to document details of a training rotation and how a trainee intends to cover their program learning goals over the rotation period.
Purpose
The rotation plan helps trainees evaluate their learning gaps, curriculum needs, and local opportunities to meet expected standards. It is validated by College staff to ensure it aligns with the professional experience requirements for the program.
How to complete it
Trainees can submit a rotation plan in TMP under the training plan tab.
Trainees undertaking their first rotation of their training program must select the following checkbox, 'The rotation start date is also the start date of my Training Program' to record the start date for their training program.
If a trainee is expecting a learning goal to be covered during a rotation, select 'yes' for 'coverage offered' and outline the learning opportunities available. See this completed rotation plan for examples of the learning opportunities that may be available for each learning goal.
This information will be used by supervisors and overseeing RACP training committee to determine the relevance of the rotation to the program’s professional experience requirements.
Trainees should upload a copy of the position description and any other supporting information that outlines the training position being undertaken. This should include regular/weekly activities that the trainee will be undertaking during the rotation (e.g. timetable).
Trainees can also set custom goals to define personal objectives that they want to achieve during the rotation. These goals should be measurable and align with the trainee’s professional objectives, skill gaps, or personal interests.
Trainees need to nominate their rotation supervisors in the plan, and they will need to approve the plan in TMP via ‘my assigned actions’.
For more information on how to complete a rotation plan review the training resources.
Due dates
28 February for rotations in the first half or whole of the year.
31 August for rotations in the second half of the year.
Procedural logbook
Requirement
1 x procedural logbook, completed over the course of Advanced Training.
Minimum procedural requirements must be met by the end of Advanced Training.
Description
Trainees are to maintain a logbook, using the prescribed logbook template, that demonstrates completion of the minimum procedural requirements.
Purpose
The logbook is a learning tool that helps trainees capture data about and reflect on specific workplace experiences. Keeping a logbook ensures that trainees have adequate exposure to a range of clinical procedures and techniques in preparation for physician practice.
How to complete it
Trainees are to log all procedures completed over the course of training, using the prescribed logbook template.
The minimum procedural requirements are outlined below. All completed procedures must be logged even after the minimum number has been reached.
Trainees are to submit their completed logbook to cardiology@racp.edu.au (Australia) or cardiology@racp.org.nz (Aotearoa New Zealand) at the end of the transition to fellowship phase.
Procedures
| Procedure | Minimum number required |
|---|---|
| Adenosine challenge: trainee to perform | 10 cases |
| Ambulatory care (outpatient) setting: manage patients under supervision | 300 patients including at least 20 patients transitioning to adult care, or who are adult congenital patients |
| Balloon atrial septostomy: perform under supervision and demonstrate competency as first operator | 5 cases |
| Cardiac catheterisation and haemodynamics: participate in, interpret and report | 80 cases |
| Cardiac catheterisation: perform and report diagnostics as primary operator for the haemodynamics component of the catheter, with assistance | 20 cases |
| Direct current cardioversion: trainee to perform | 5 cases |
| Fetal echocardiograms: observe and counsel patients, families, and/or carers | 20 studies (10 studies with complex lesions) |
Transoesophageal echocardiograms: all studies should
be reviewed and have finalised consultant reports
|
600 cases in total |
| 300 of the 600 cases | |
| 500 of the 600 cases | |
| Electrocardiograms: interpret and report on both inpatients and outpatients | 100 cases |
| Electrophysiology study/ablation procedure: participate in clinical decision-making for, including observation of procedures and interpretation of reports *The same patient may be used to demonstrate experience in more than one type of instance. | 25 instances* 10 instances that demonstrate clinical decision making 5 instances where the trainee has observed and interpreted the study/procedure 10 instances where the trainee has interpreted the report |
| Exercise tests: trainee to supervise and report | 50 cases |
| Holter monitor: trainee to report and interpret | 50 cases |
| Chest X-rays: trainee to interpret results | 25 cases |
| Cardiac MRI: trainee to interpret results | 25 cases Trainees should be present for 5 procedures |
| CT angiogram: trainee to interpret results | 25 cases Trainees should be present for 5 procedures |
| Testing permanent pacemaker function: trainee to participate in | 20 cases |
| Pericardial aspiration: trainee to perform under supervision and demonstrate competency as first operator | 3 cases |
Courses
Requirement
1 x RACP Advanced Training Orientation resource, completed during the first 6 months of the specialty foundation phase.
Description
This resource is designed to orient trainees to Advanced Training. It covers areas such as transition to Advanced Training, training and assessment, and trainee support. It’s a 'one-stop shop' that trainees can return to if they ever want to find a useful resource, or need a refresher on the supporting resources, policies, and systems available to them.
Estimated completion time: 1-1.5 hours.
Purpose
The resource is intended to support trainees to successfully navigate their transition to Advanced Training and prepare for unsupervised practice as a specialist physician.
How to complete it
Trainees can complete the Advanced Training Orientation resource on RACP Online Learning.
Trainees will receive a certificate of completion on RACP Online Learning when they complete the resource. Completion of this requirement will automatically update in TMP.
Requirement
1 x RACP Supervisor Professional Development Program (SPDP), completed by the end of Advanced Training.
Description
The SPDP consists of 3 workshops:
- Educational Leadership and Management
- Learning Environment and Culture
- Teaching and Facilitating Learning for Safe Practice
See Supervisor Professional Development Program for more information on the program.
Purpose
This requirement aims to prepare trainees for a supervisory/educator role in the workplace and supports trainees’ learning aligned with the “team leadership” and “supervision and teaching” learning goals.
How to complete it
Register for a supervisor workshop.
Trainees can complete the SPDP in three ways:
- Virtual workshops
- Face-to-face workshops
- Online courses.
Workshops are free and presented by volunteer Fellows trained in SPDP facilitation.
Requirement
1 x Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety resource, if not completed during Basic Training.
Trainees must complete the resource by the end of their Advanced Training however it’s recommended they complete it before the specialty consolidation phase.
Description
The Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety resource teaches best practice medicine for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori patients through reflection on the trainee’s own cultural values and recognition of their influence on professional practice.
Estimated completion time: 2 hours.
Purpose
This resource supports trainees’ learning aligned with the “professional behaviours” learning goal. Specialist training requires trainees to:
- examine their own implicit biases
- be mindful of power differentials
- develop reflective practice
- undertake transformative unlearning
- contribute to a decolonisation of health services for Indigenous peoples
How to complete it
Trainees can complete the Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety resource on RACP Online Learning.
Trainees will receive a certificate of completion on RACP Online Learning when they complete the resource. Completion of this requirement will automatically update in TMP.
Requirement
1 x RACP Health Policy, Systems and Advocacy resource, completed by the end of Advanced Training
Description
This resource has been designed for Advanced Trainees, as an introduction to health policy, systems, and advocacy.
Estimated completion time: 5 hours.
Purpose
The resource aims to support Advanced Trainees in meeting the health policy, systems, and advocacy professional standard and underpinning competencies outlined in their specialty curriculum, and to enable connections between Advanced Trainees’ own practice and the nature and attributes of local, national, and global health systems.
How to complete it
Trainees can complete the RACP Health Policy, Systems and Advocacy resource on RACP Online Learning.
Trainees will receive a certificate of completion on RACP Online Learning when they complete the resource. Completion of this requirement will automatically update in TMP.