2025 training program requirements (Summary)
2025 training program requirements (Summary)
Entry requirements
What do trainees need to do?
When do trainees need to do it?
1 entry application
- Trainees are to submit an entry application using the College’s new Training Management Platform (TMP).
- Further information on how to access the TMP will be available in late 2024.
Prospective trainees can demonstrate…
Selection criteria
- A commitment and capability to pursuing a career as a physician or paediatrician.
- The ability to plan and manage their learning.
- The ability and willingness to achieve the Basic Training Competencies, particularly those associated with:
- Communication
- Cultural competence
- Ethics and professional behaviour
- Leadership, management, and teamwork.
Entry criteria
- A Basic Training position in an RACP-accredited training setting or network.
- General medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia if applying in Australia or a medical registration with a general scope of practice with the MCNZ if applying in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Learning program requirements
What do trainees need to do?
When do trainees need to do it?
Complete 36-months full-time equivalent (FTE) of clinical experience in a mix of approved training rotations.
See Clinical experience requirements for details
- In any sequence over the course of training.
1 learning plan per training rotation
- At the start of each rotation
- Minimum of one per three months
- RACP Basic Training Orientation resource*
- RACP Communication Skills resource
- RACP Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori Cultural Competence resource
- RACP Ethics resource
- RACP Introduction to Leadership, Management, and Teamwork resource
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support course or equivalent.
*Resource will be available in 2025.
- RACP Basic Training Orientation resource to be completed within first six months of training.
- Other courses to be completed in any sequence over the course of training.
- Recommended completion in the Foundation phase.
Teaching program requirements
What do trainees need to do?
When do trainees need to do it?
The teaching program guides supervisors, assessors, and accredited training settings to plan and deliver teaching activities.
During their training, trainees are required to have named individuals or entities for the following supervision roles:
- Network Director (where a network exists only)
- Director of Physician Education
- Progress Review Panel
- Education Supervisor
- Rotation Supervisor
People may act in multiple supervision roles.
See Roles and responsibilites for details
- Each training rotation
Assessment program requirements
Each phase of training (each year)
What do trainees need to do?
When do trainees need to do it?
12 Learning captures
- Minimum of one per month from the time onboarding into the new Basic Training programs is complete
12 Observation captures
- Minimum of one per month from the time onboarding into the new Basic Training programs is complete
1 Rotation progress report per training rotation
- At the end of each rotation
- Minimum of one per three months
- For example, if a trainee undertakes five training rotations in the Foundation phase of training, they should complete five rotation progress reports
- DPEs can exempt trainees from 1-2 rotation progress reports if they cannot reasonably be completed
2 Phase progress reports
- 1 mid phase report and 1 end-of-phase report
Once over the course of training
What do trainees need to do?
When do trainees need to do it?
1 Written Examination
- Early in Completion phase
1 Clinical Examination
- Mid-way through the Completion phase
The RACP has set these as the minimum requirements, though more work-based assessments are encouraged.
Directors of Paediatric Education and Education Supervisors may require some trainees to complete additional work-based assessments to help form a better picture of their progress.