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The RGSEP Program will provide you a length of training contact whilst you complete your training as a rural generalist (usually 1-4 years).
As a NSW Health employee, you will retain your award entitlements (e.g. sick leave, annual leave, long service leave) previously accrued as an intern and resident medical offer and these will continue to accrue in line with other specialist trainees employed by NSW Health.
Whilst on the RGSEP Program, you can work seamlessly across the rural local health districts in NSW (Far West, Western, Southern, Northern, Murrumbidgee, Illawarra Shoalhaven, Hunter New England and Mid North Coast) to access training positions that support your career growth and development.
The NSW Rural Generalist Single Employer Pathway (RGSEP) is an employment pathway for junior doctors seeking a career as a rural generalist.
Trainees on the pathway are employed for up to four years by a regional Local Health District (LHD) while completing training in primary care and hospital settings.
The RGSEP offers rural generalist trainees a contract with a NSW Health LHD for the length of their training. This contract may last up to four years depending on your stage of training. As a rural generalist trainee, this allows you to keep your NSW Health Award entitlements (for example, sick leave, annual leave and parental leave), as other specialist trainees employed by NSW Health do.
RGSEP positions are being offered in the following NSW Health:
RGSEP offers RG trainees:
RGSEP is available for trainees who are starting their RG training, or those who have already completed some components of the GP training pathway. You will be offered anywhere between a 1-4 year contract depending on the stage at which you commence employment with the local health district.
To be eligible, you must be enrolled in one of the following relevant vocational general practitioner (GP) training programs:
All trainees recruited to the RGSEP must also be eligible for selection into the Health Education and Training Institute, Rural Generalist Medical Training Program (RGTP).
There are two entry points to the RGTP: through the Foundation Year or via Advanced Skills Training year (lateral entry).
Upon completion, and pending successful completion of college assessments, you will exit with at least one advanced skill and a Fellowship of either or both:
NSW Health funded Advanced Skills Training posts are coordinated by the RGTP, and include Anaesthetics, Obstetrics, Emergency Medicine, Paediatrics, Palliative Care and Mental Health.
If you wish to undertake an alternate AST, you should discuss this with your college who can provide further advice.
As part of your RGSEP contract, you will be enrolled in the NSW RGTP.
Centralised recruitment for RGSEP placements will open on 16 July 2024 as part of the JMO recruitment campaign for the 2025 clinical year.
Outside of this, RGSEP opportunities are advertised at participating LHD locations throughout the year if they become available. If you are interested in a mid-year intake, please reach out to the Regional Health Division at MOH-ODS-Regional@health.nsw.gov.au.
If successful, the employing LHD will work with your GP collage, a suitable GP practice, NSW Health and yourself to manage your rotations and meet your training requirements.
You may also have the opportunity to rotate to other rural local health districts at any point in your training by negotiation.
Positions for the 2025 clinical year will also open on 16 July 2024.
These will be advertised as part of the annual Junior Medical Officer recruitment campaign. More information can be found at Campaign dates - 2025 clinical year and through searching 'General Practice' (Speciality) and 'rural generalist trainee' (position).
GP practices interested in becoming part of the RGSEP should contact your LHD or the regional health division using the contact details at the bottom of this page. To be eligible to participate in the pathway, your practice and supervisor must be accredited by either the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and/or the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) to be a GP Registrar Training Practice and GP Supervisor.
Your practice must have the capacity and infrastructure to accommodate a GP trainee, and the ability to provide supervision in the practice. This will generally (but not exclusively) be in Modified Monash Model 2-7 towns with GP Supervisors who also work as GP VMOs in their local hospital in Emergency Department, inpatients, and/or practicing procedural skills such as anaesthetics or obstetrics.
You must be willing to provide supervision and sharing of procedural rosters/access to those services.
Your practice will be required to enter into an agreement with the LHD to participate in the RGSEP.
More information for GP practices can be found at Rural Generalist Single Employer Pathway - FAQs for General Practices.
If you have any questions or enquiries, please contact the Regional Health Division at MOH-ODS-Regional@health.nsw.gov.au.
