Pre-2024 intern (PGY1) training information

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Intern training changed in 2024. This page describes the transitional arrangements for interns who did not complete intern training before 30 January 2024 and includes the documents relevant to intern training pre2024.

Australian and New Zealand medical graduates must complete accredited intern training (postgraduate year one (PGY1)) to become eligible for general registration. PGY1 training changed in 2024 and the Board put in place transitional arrangements for PGY1 doctors who did not complete PGY1 training by 30 January 2024.

Transitional arrangements for PGY1 doctors who do not complete PGY1 training by 30 January 2024

Australian and New Zealand medical graduates must complete accredited intern training (postgraduate year one (PGY1) training) to become eligible for general registration. With intern training changing in 2024, the Board has transitional arrangements in place for PGY1 doctors who do not complete PGY1 training by 30 January 2024.

2023 (and earlier years) postgraduate year one (PGY1) doctors who do not complete intern requirements by 30 January 2024 will be considered to have met the requirements for general registration by completing:

47 weeks full-time equivalent (FTE) experience consisting of:

at least eight weeks in emergency medical care
at least 10 weeks in medicine
at least 10 weeks in surgery, and
a range of other approved terms to make up 12 months (minimum of 47 weeks FTE).

The terms must be accredited to either, or both, the pre-2024 or post 2024 Australian Medical Council accreditation standards. The Board understands that terms will be accredited differently from 2024. The Board will be flexible with requirements but expects PGY1 doctors to have:

broad based accredited experience in a range of disciplines (as described above),
written confirmation from either the Director of Clinical Training, the Director of Medical Services, the Assessment Review Panel Chair or other authorised person acceptable to the Board that the PGY1 doctor has been awarded an overall satisfactory rating by the end of the PGY1 year based on end of term assessments.

Document name	Description	PDF	Accessible version	Document date
Guide to intern training in Australia	An overview of intern training and what is expected of interns.	PDF (249KB)	Word version (374KB,DOCX)	14 December 2016
Intern training - Intern outcome statements	A broad outline of the significant outcomes an intern must achieve to successfully complete an approved internship.	PDF (232KB)	Word version (366KB,DOCX)	19 October 2014
Intern training - Guidelines for terms	A guide to the learning experiences an intern should have during medicine, surgery, emergency medical care, and other terms during internship. Includes notes on supervision.	PDF (251KB)	Word version (369KB,DOCX)	31 January 2014
Intern training - Assessing and certifying completion	A guide on how assessment works in intern training, including assessment criteria, forms, what happens with remediation, and how an intern is certified as having successfully completed their internship.	PDF (239KB)	Word version (423KB,DOCX)	19 October 2014
Intern training - Term assessment form	A form for both interns and supervisors; interns may use for self-assessment and supervisors use the form to provide feedback on the intern’s performance. This form aligns with the Intern outcome statements and the domains of the Australian Curriculum Framework for Junior Doctors.	AMC website
Certificate of completion of an accredited internship	A form for persons authorised to certify that an intern has satisfactorily completed an accredited internship. The completed form is required by the Board for the purposes of deciding whether to grant general registration to an intern (provisional registrant).	PDF (429KB)		5 June 2023
Pre-2024 Registration standard	Pre-2024: Registration standard: Granting general registration as a medical practitioner to Australian and New Zealand medical graduates on completion of intern training	PDF (83.1KB)		1 January 2014
Surveys of intern preparedness	The Australian Medical Council and Medical Board of Australia undertook surveys of interns in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The surveys were designed to assess how well medical schools prepare graduates for their internship. An evaluation of the surveys’ effectiveness as a quality improvement tool has been undertaken.	Evaluation report PDF (641KB) 2019 survey results PDF (940KB) 2018 survey results PDF (1.2MB) 2017 survey results PDF (645KB)