GP JOBS IN AUSTRALIA

Getting registered with the AMC to work as a doctor in Australia

Overview

Our jobs are open to “Category 1″ doctors as assessed by the AMC. For UK or Irish GPs this equates to having MRCGP and JCPTGP / CCT / PMETB qualifications. However, we have some out of hours jobs which are suitable for  GPs who aren’t MRCGP and have been given “category 2″

AMC registration

To work as  GP in Australia, you need to be registered with the RACGP (Royal Australian College of GPs) / AMC (Australian Medical Council). This is quite complex and the ease with which you can gain registration is dependent on your medical qualifications. Australia has several different categories of registration. The one you are given is based on an individual assessment of your qualifications, membership of the UK’s RCGP (or, if you’re from Ireland, Graduate of ICGP holding MICGP membership) and your clinical background

Our full time vacancies in Private or Corporate practice are for “Category 1 doctors” (see below). Our Out of Hours jobs are open to doctors who can get Category 2 registration. The following notes are our understanding of the current system. Please note that each application is assessed individually, so our advice is just a guide – please send us your detailed CV if you’d like more advice:

Eligibility for Private and Corporate practice jobs:
For these vacancies, doctors must be classified by the RACGP (Royal Australian College of GPs) as being at the same level as an Australian trained specialist and for whom there is no need for a College examination, no assessment of general practice experience, and no further training required. This is “Category 1″. If you’ve trained in the UK and you have either a CCT or hold the old JCPTGP certificate or were assessed by PMETB and you have membership of the RCGP, then you should be a category 1 doctor. Holders of a recent CEGPR (ie issued since PMETB was absorbed within the GMC) may find they are assessed as Category 2  as the AMCGP does not yet recognise the new GMC method of assessing GP training equivalence. If you’ve trained in Ireland and you’re a graduate of the ICGP and hold MICGP membership, then you should also be classed as Category 1

There is more information on registration on the RACGP website: http://www.racgp.org.au/assessment/pathways/specialistpathway

Eligibility for Out of Hours jobs:
There are less stringent rules for these jobs, with three or four groups of doctors being eligible, dependent on which type of registration with the AMC is open to that doctor

i.      Category 1 registration via the RACGP specialist pathway as per the registration system for private and corporate practice jobs – see note above.

ii.     UK or Irish trained doctors who have a minimum of 3 years experience since graduating (with at least 1 year of work as a GP registrar or equivalent). This is via the Competent Authority pathway:  http://www.amc.org.au/index.php/img/ca

iii.    Non UK trained doctors who have taken PLAB, have worked in a supervised training post in the UK for at least 12 months and have either 8 years of GP experience outside the UK or at least 3 years GP experience within the UK. This is via the Competent Authority pathway: http://www.amc.org.au/index.php/img/ca

iv.   It may also be possible for a category 2 doctor (as determined by the RACGP Specialist Pathway: http://www.racgp.org.au/assessment/pathways/specialistpathway) to gain suitable registration for the OOH jobs. If you fall into this category, please ask us for further advice.