Overview
Short-term, supervised, workplace-based psychiatry training in Australia for international medical graduates in the final two years of specialist training or international psychiatrists, to gain skills in an area of psychiatry not available in their home country, after which trainees return home.
The programme
- Training type
- Clinical fellowship
- Specialty associations
- Not yet verified
- Learning format
- Not yet verified
- Duration
- Up to 2 years
- Start
- Not stated on the official page
- Positions
- Not stated on the official page
- Accreditation
- RANZCP endorsement; registration via Medical Board of Australia (AAMC-30 form released to Ahpra)
- Department
- Not yet verified
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- IMGs completing their final 2 years of specialist psychiatry training in their home country, or international psychiatrists holding a specialist psychiatry qualification; AMC primary source verification; a job offer from a host service
- Qualification requirement
- IMGs completing their final 2 years of specialist psychiatry training in their home country, or international psychiatrists holding a specialist psychiatry qualification
- Citizenship requirement
- Not yet verified
- Practice location requirement
- Not yet verified
- Membership requirement
- Not yet verified
- Eligibility restrictions
- Not yet verified
- Language
- Not yet verified
- Teaching language
- Not yet verified
- Clinical language
- Not yet verified
- International applicants
- Yes — designed for international medical graduates
- Licence requirement
- Medical Board of Australia registration for the SST post (via Ahpra)
- Visa route
- Not yet verified
- Visa sponsorship
- Not yet verified
- Visa support
- Not stated on the official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Apply for RANZCP SST endorsement at least three months before the proposed start date
- Application method
- Email completed application form, fee and supporting documents to simgehelp@ranzcp.org; assessed by the local Branch Training Committee and CSIMGE (about 6 weeks)
- Documents
- Not yet verified
- Contact
- simgehelp@ranzcp.org
Funding and costs
- Tuition / fees
- Not yet verified
- Application fee
- Not yet verified
- Stipend / salary
- Not yet verified
- Scholarship
- Not yet verified
- Funding
- Not stated on the official page (applicant must secure a job offer; RANZCP does not find positions)
Sources and verification
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