Integrated Rural Training Pipeline
The Integrated Rural Training Pipeline (IRTP) is a subset of the STP, and will provide 100 positions from 2017 onwards, across all medical colleges. ANZCA has funding to support up to eight full-time equivalent positions under the IRTP.
Twenty-six regional training hubs have been established under the IRTP to work with local health services, to help stream students through the medical training pipeline.
A regional training hub is a team of people at an established Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program location, dedicated to integrating medical training opportunities for medical students, junior doctors and specialist trainees within their catchment area.
Each IRTP post is designed to support one trainee over several years. It is expected that once the new agreements have been established for 2021 and beyond, that the trainees now in these positions will continue until they have completed their training.
You can find relevant IRTP forms below:
TMSDT
The Training More Specialist Doctors in Tasmania project, known as TMSDT or the Tasmanian Project, is the second element of the Tasmanian Health Assistance Package, which is designed to ease immediate pressures across the Tasmanian health system and to fund clinical innovation and system improvement.
The TMSDT project aims to achieve the following outcomes:
- Engagement of new specialist clinical supervisors to facilitate an expansion of clinical training capacity at the undergraduate, prevocational and postgraduate levels.
- Dedicated STP training posts in Tasmania to provide vocational training opportunities for local medical graduates and to attract graduates from interstate.
- Employment of training co-ordination staff to assist with administrative arrangements in the delivery of training and ensure the effective integration between trainees, educators and health services.
- The creation of professional development initiatives targeted towards enhancing the recruitment and retention of medical specialists.
- The development of "generalist" specialist training pathways, addressing the need to shift the focus of specialist workforce development away from perceived over sub-specialisation, particularly to meet the needs of rural communities.
ANZCA has funding to manage STP-funded training positions nationally in anaesthesia and pain medicine. ANZCA has been funded to manage the Specialist Training Program and the associated contracts for training posts in anaesthesia and pain medicine.
Further information
You can find general information about STP on the Australian Government's Department of Health website or our STP FAQs page. If you have a specific question, please contact our STP team.
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We've answered some common questions about the Specialist Training Program.
Find all the Specialist Training program forms and guidelines you need here, including consent forms and progress reports.
The Specialist Training Program (STP) is an Australian government initiative that aims to extend vocational training for specialist registrars into settings outside traditional metropolitan teaching hospitals, including regional, rural and remote and private facilities.