Education - Advanced Training Registrars

The Network 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 was 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.

In 2008, the Gastroenterology Network supported a pilot (in collaboration with the RACP) to align the recruitment and matching of trainees in two rounds (continuing and first years) with Victoria and Tasmania. In 2009, gastroenterology became the first physician subspecialty to undertake a national match for advanced trainees. The national match continued in 2010.