Vision
To be recognised as the premier provider of postgraduate training, and to ensure that General Practice is the first career choice for a significant proportion of Junior Medical Officers. Mission
To provide an exciting, diverse, and excellent education experience that creates competent and confident General Practitioners whom are a dynamic and passionate force in primary health.Aims and Objectives
The affiliates involved in the Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program are the Department of General Practice and the Department of Rural Health of the University of Adelaide, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), the National GP Supervisors Association (rural and urban) and the GP Registrar Association(GPRA). Governance rests with the affiliates and an independent incorporated body has been formed to enable this.We provide a training program for doctors who wish to become urban, rural and/or remote GPs and meets the standards of both RACGP and ACRRM.
Our program is focussed around a modest number of high quality teaching practices, regional hospitals and metropolitan hospitals that have an established track record in training at all levels. All recognise the new arrangements for GP registrar training and seek to embrace it.
We aim to provide a high quality program driven by, and meeting the needs of our GP Supervisors and Registrars. The University and its core partners provide the necessary educational expertise and the academic infrastructure to ensure this can happen. The program is:
- flexible to the needs of our Registrars and local communities;
- innovative in the delivery of education;
- involving key stakeholders in the region including Divisions of General Practice, health services, workforce agency and consumers.
We aim to ensure vertical integration through undergraduate and into postgraduate levels. We have developed a highly innovative and flexible program that in addition to providing the expected core clinical training in general practice, also provides specific training in rural and remote medical practice, and offers options in public health, IT, management, academic medicine, and research and evaluation. We also aim to provide many of our resources, where appropriate, on the web.