Most, if not all, International Medical Graduates on the Standard Pathway will need to fulfill 47 weeks of full-time supervised practice before general registration will be awarded by Ahpra. These 47 weeks are inclusive of at least 10 weeks of medical rotations, 10 weeks of surgical rotations, and 8 weeks of emergency medicine rotations.
Given that full details of what constitutes “medical” and “surgical” rotations are really scarce even on Ahpra’s official website, I have had to email one of the Ahpra officers for clarification. The list of rotations which would fulfill these requirements have been reproduced below for everyone’s information.
Medical rotations
- Addiction Medicine
- Cardiology
- Clinical genetics
- Clinical pharmacology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- General Medicine
- Geriatric Medicine
- Immunology and Allergy
- Infectious Diseases
- Medical Oncology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Public Health Medicine
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sexual Health Medicine
Surgical rotations
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- General surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Otolaryngology – head and neck surgery
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Paediatric surgery
- Plastic surgery
- Urology
- Vascular surgery
If you wish to rely on a different area of medicine that does not appear in the above list, a Board will need to decide your application as to whether or not you will be granted an unconditional general registration.