FPM Project: Developing flexible accreditation pathways for rural settings

An exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of flexible rural pain medicine accreditation models with the faculty.

The FPM has received funding from The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care to explore flexible accreditation pathways for pain medicine units in regional and rural Australia.

Through this project, the faculty endeavours to:

• Identify accreditation pathways that support rural/regional based pain medicine training.
• Consider for approval a preferred accreditation pathway to support rural training.
• Aim to visit and accredit several rural/regional based sites by the end of 2025

We encourage FPM fellows, trainees, SIMGs, and rural pain units to get involved in this project and help shape these models to support sustainable training and practice environments in rural and regional pain units.

Opportunities to get involved:

• Our survey is now open! If you are a pain medicine fellow, trainee or SIMG working in regional or rural Australia, please help us build a clearer picture of our pain medicine rural workforce by completing this short 2-minute survey.
• Register your interest in being part of a remotely conducted focus group to share your experiences and contribute to the development of pain medicine training in rural settings by reaching out to us at [email protected].
• If you work at a pain unit based in rural Australia and would like to learn more about how you can be a part of our pilot in 2025, please reach out to us at [email protected].

This project is funded through the Flexible Approach to Training in Expanded Settings (FATES) program. Click here to learn more about this federal grant program.