Education

Rural Health West administers a range of high-quality educational activities to assist rural and remote general practitioners and other health professional access professional development opportunities, including:

Accreditation

All educational activities are accredited by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).
The number of points allocated to each education activity is dependant upon type and length of activity. Please refer to specific activities for further information.

Rural Procedural Grants Program

Rural Health West’s educational activities are, where possible, approved for the Rural Procedural Grants Program.

The Rural Procedural Grants Program provides financial assistance of $2000 per day to procedural and practising unsupervised emergency medicine GPs in rural and remote areas, to access relevant activities in order to assist them in maintaining or updating their skills.

The Program has two components. It provides support for:
1) Procedural GPs practising in surgery, anaesthetics and/or obstetrics in ASGC-RA 1-5 localities* (up to 10 days or $20 000 per financial year); and
2) GPs practising emergency medicine in ASGC-RA 2-5 localities (up to three days or $6000 per financial year).

GPs providing services in rural and remote areas but residing primarily in urban areas (eg locums, RFDS doctors) may also be eligible for the Program.

The Program is administered by RACGP and ACRRM and GPs are required to contact either college to register. GPs do not have to be a member of the colleges to receive the grant.

To check your eligibility and view all current information please read the Rural Procedural Grants Program: Program Guidelines http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/982BF6DA48012C83CA25735B00045F01/$File/guide.pdf

Education Steering Committee

Rural Health West’s education activities are governed by an Education Steering Committee.

Established in 2009 to assist with the development of a more strategic focus to education and continuing professional development (CPD) the committee provides clinical governance on the content and program curricula. Committee members represent various organisations and disciplines that also have a focus on rural and remote GP education.

External continuing professional development agencies

Rural Health West collaborates with other education agencies that provide continuing professional development opportunities for rural and remote GPs. For information on external agencies and CPD please click here.

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