Specialist Training Program
The 2012 Specialist Training Program (STP) Selection Round for new registrar training posts and the 2011 Private Infrastructure and Clinical Supervision Allowance round closed on the 9th June 2011.
Further information is available from the Department of Health and Ageing website: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/work-spec
Overview
The Specialist Training Program provides support to enable medical specialist trainees to rotate through an expanded range of settings beyond traditional public teaching hospitals.
From January 1 2010 the Specialist Training Program (STP) became the single platform for Commonwealth Grants support for specialist training initiatives. Previous programs now amalgamated under the STP include:
- the Expanded Specialist Training Program (ESTP)
- the Outer Metropolitan Specialist Trainee Program (OMSTP)
- Advanced Specialist Training Posts in Rural Areas (ASTPRA)
- the Pathology Memorandum of Understanding (Path MoU)
- the Overseas Trained Specialist Upskilling Program
- Psychiatry Training Outside Teaching Hospitals (PTOTH)
- Supporting best practice and workforce in pathology and diagnostic imaging
Aims and Objectives of the Program
The aims and objectives of the new program are to:
- Increase the capacity of health care sector to provide high quality, appropriate training opportunities to facilitation the required educational experiences for specialist training
- Supplement the available specialist workforce in outer metropolitan, rural and remote locations; and
- Develop specialist training arrangements beyond traditional teaching hospitals.
Further Information
SA IMET supports the Specialist Training Program and remains a member of the Commonwealth's STP advisory group, EMEAC. For further information on the STP visit the Department of Health and Ageing website.