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The Specialist Pathway enhances international medical graduates’ access to accredited assessment arrangements for general practice, with focus on rural and remote practice. It provides IMGs with Fellowship if they hold recognised overseas general practice qualifications, which leads to specialist registration in the specialty of General Practice.

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The following guide can be used to determine your eligibility to be assessed for partial or substantial comparability

Codified List of Recognised Qualifications

To be considered for ACRRM’s pathway, you MUST first make an application through the Australian medical Council (AMC), via their website here.

All documents that you submit to the AMC must also be sent to ACRRM.

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ACRRM’s fee structure has been designed to be simple and clearly linked to the individual components of the Specialist Pathway process.

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Unfortunately, ACRRM does not accept any other qualifications other than those listed on the codified list for Specialist Pathway. However, any doctor holding limited, general or specialist registration (and have worked in Australia for 12 months or more) may be eligible for ACRRM’s Independent Pathway, which is one of our vocational training pathways. Full details can be found on the Vocational Training page or you can contact the team directly on trainingacrrm [dot] org [dot] au

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AMC will inform ACRRM of the outcome of this and forward any original documentation they hold to us. The following steps are then communicated to you:

1. Email confirmation sent to you confirming documents received and asking for completion of ACRRM application form and payment of paper based assessment
2. Paper based assessment commences, with outcome communicated to you via email with a request to progress through to the interview stage
3. Interview is conducted via video conference in all cases
4. Outcome of Interview communicated by AMC via email to you
5. ACRRM provides you with membership details and next steps via email
6. You can now apply for medical registration and begin the move to Australia
7. Once you are in Australia and working, your period of peer review will commence
8. ACRRM will contact you to arrange a learning plan discussion via teleconference between yourself, your supervisor, our medical educator and IMG Assessment manager
9. You have now commenced your period of peer review, all other requirements will be communicated to you via email along with your confirmed learning plan

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Substantially comparable doctors are required to complete 12 months of peer review and a multi source feedback and MAY BE required to undertake further assessment as determined by the Chair and Medical Educator. This is all discussed during the learning plan discussion.

Partially comparable doctors are required to complete up to 24 months of peer review and multiple assessments which may include a multi source feedback, mini-CEX, MCQ and StAMPS. Full details about what these assessments are can be found in the Assessment handbook, on the Assessment page.