General practitioners
Information on training opportunities, support initiatives and legislation affecting general practitioners.
Training
Support and incentives
Medicare
Training
- Australian General Practice Training Program
- Prevocational General Practice Placements Program
- Remote Vocational Training Scheme
- Rural Health Education Foundation
Support and incentives
- General Practice Rural Incentives Program
- General Practice Procedural Training Support Program
- HECS Reimbursement Scheme
- More Doctors for Outer Metropolitan Areas Relocation Incentive Grant
- Rural and Remote General Practice Program
- Rural Health Support, Education and Training program
- Workforce Support for Rural General Practitioners program Top of page
Medicare
- Medicare provider number eligibility
- Districts of Workforce Shortage
- International Medical Recruitment Strategy (overseas trained doctors)
- Other Medical Practitioners programs
- Review of the Medicare provider number legislation
Related Links
- DoctorConnect - a starting point for overseas trained doctors who may be considering work in Australia and for employers seeking to recruit them.
- Exchange Visitor Sponsorship Program - information for Australian doctors wanting to study in the USA on a J1 visa.
- Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association - advocates improvements in Indigenous health in Australia and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to work in medicine.
- General Practice Education and Training Limited (GPET) manage the Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) and Prevocational General Practice Placements (PGPPP) programs on behalf of the Australian Government.
- Remote Vocational Training Scheme - this program is for medical practitioners in remote and isolated communities throughout Australia
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - is responsible for maintaining standards for quality clinical practice, education and training and research in Australian general practice.
- Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine - is one of two colleges in Australia that are responsible for setting and arbitrating standards for the medical specialty of general practice.
