General Practice Hospital Training Program (GPHTP)

For GP trainees, only preferences submitted through the GPHTP EOI process will be included in your Rotation Guide. While EHSs will try and accommodate these, their priority is allocating highly recommended GP-suitable rotations identified by the RACGP and ACRRM. As a result, some GP trainees receive more of the rotations they need rather than all they want. 

Not all EHSs offer every specialty rotation, and high demand terms such as obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics are not guaranteed. Whether you will be allocated a term depends on availability at your EHS. Applicants are recommended to review the GP-suitable rotations (Tables 1 and 2) and their EHS Rotational Matrix before submitting their preferences to their EHS MW Team. For GP trainees, there is a greater likelihood of receiving your preferred terms if you provide the same preferences in your EOI and to your MW team.

PGY2 trainees are likely to receive fewer preferences in the ‘preferred’ or ‘other’ categories, as the priority will be completion of highly recommended terms at RMO level. Returning GP trainees and PGY3+ GP trainees who have completed these already should be allocated more preferences in the ‘preferred’ or ‘other’ categories, subject to availability.

GPHTP participants can preference specialty rotations not classified as GP-suitable or those that do not appear in their EHS’s Rotational Matrix, but allocation of these is at their EHS’s discretion and subject to availability. 

RMOs with GP intent submit preferences through standard EHS employment and preferencing processes. EHSs will allocate you to unfilled matrix rotations in consideration of your preferences, subject to availability.

Generally, all current participants need to resubmit an EOI to enable a reassessment of their eligibility and, for GP trainees, to refresh their preferences. Current GP trainees will need to confirm their plans with their GP College and if they return to hospital training time without submitting an EOI they will be unable to access the GPHTP exemption to RACGP training time caps.

Yes, you are welcome to apply, even if you are thinking of or have applied for an assessment for GP readiness to enter community training as not all applications are approved and it is easier to withdraw than miss the cut-off date. However, if, by the end of September, you are not 100% certain that you will be completing 12 months of hospital training you should withdraw your EOI.

Your GP college will review your previous training experience and preferences to guide your EHS to allocate you to rotations that build upon your previous experience to prepare for community general practice training.

Your EHS allocates, as a priority, rotations that have been identified by the Colleges as providing valuable clinical experiences for general practice, subject to availability.

As an RACGP trainee, your EHS will be made aware of the minimum requirements for you to meet paediatrics training requirements.

You will have access a unique exemption to AGPT training time caps provided to GPHTP participants enables you to choose to return to the program for up to 12 months the following year. This may enable you to complete additional hospital rotations before entry to community without having to use Category 2 leave.

If you will not know the outcome of your application, you will initially be enrolled as an RMO with GP intent and reclassified as GP trainee once this is confirmed.

While you will miss the opportunity to receive a Rotation Guide for next year, you would be eligible for the GPHTP exemption to AGPT training time caps and receive the full benefits of the Returning GP trainee the following year.

You will have access to unfilled rotations that are relevant and useful for general practice and may assist you in achieving some recognition of prior learning.

Should you subsequently enrol in the AGPT in an early intake and return to the program you will receive all the benefits of a GP trainee and be prioritised higher for rotations than new GP PGY3+ trainees who have not previously participated.

You will be prioritised highest for allocation to rotations by your EHS to complete high demand rotations and in accordance with your preferences.

You will receive an updated Rotation Guide from your GP College and have the opportunity to review and provide feedback before it is submitted to your EHS.