Glossary

Glossary

Searching for a GP job in Australia includes the use of a lot of specialist terminology. Its summarised here, to help you navigate the system.

19AA	Medicare legislation designed to recognise and support general practice as a vocational specialty
19AB	Medicare legislation restricting overseas trained doctors from accessing Medicare benefits unless they work in certain locations and meet eligibility requirements under the Health Insurance Act of  1973
ACRRM	Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
AHPRA	Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
AGPT	Australian General Practice Training program. The AGPT program is a postgraduate vocational training program for medical graduates wishing to pursue a career in general practice and/or rural and remote medicine in Australia.
AMC	Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent national standards and assessment body for medical education and training.
DPA	Distribution Priority Area (previously District of Workforce Shortage (DWS))
FSP	Fellowship Support Program
Kruk Review	Australian government review that enabled reform of Medical Registration, in particular of General Practitioners.
IMG	International Medical Graduate. Medical Practitioners whose medical qualifications are from a medical school outside of Australia or New Zealand.
MM level	Modified Monash level (Measure of remoteness for a location)
OTD	Overseas Trained Doctors and foreign graduates are health professionals who attained their medical qualification outside Australia or New Zealand, or who weren’t citizens when they enrolled in medical school.
Expedited Pathway	AHPRA Expedited Pathway, enabling MRCGP, MICGP and RNZCGP qualified doctors to become Specialist Registered Doctors with AHPRA in a faster timeframe.
RVTS	Rural Vocational Training Scheme
RACGP	Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
RACGP fellowship exam #1	AKT - Applied Knowledge Test (computer-based assessment)
RACGP fellowship exam #2	KFP - Key Feature Problems (assessment of clinical reasoning)
RACGP fellowship exam #3	CCE - Clinical Competency Exam (CCE) (replaced Remote Clinical Exam (RCE), and Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE))