Education - Advanced Training Registrars

The Network has established a Workforce, Education & Training Working Group to develop strategies to optimise recruitment and retention across the range of disciplines in the gastroenterology workforce. Its initial focus has been on the establishment of a centralised selection process for the appointment of advanced training registrars.

• In early 2007, GMCT, in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Education and Training (IMET) reviewed options for the coordinated recruitment of advanced training registrars across four specialities including gastroenterology, with the aim of implementing a preferred model in 2007 for the 2008 clinical year recruitment. As part of the review process, input has been gathered from a range of sources including advanced training registrars, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), the RACP Specialist Advisory Committee in Gastroenterology, and the NSW Department of Health.