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This page is for Australian and New Zealand medical graduates who have nearly finished a medical internship in Australia.
If you are completing an internship as an international medical graduate and are ready to apply for general and/or specialist registration go to the International medical graduate page.
Find your name on the Register of practitioners to confirm your provisional registration expiry date.
You should apply for general registration up to 4 weeks before you are due to complete your internship.
Find your name on the Register of practitioner to confirm your provisional registration expiry date.
You must renew your provisional registration to remain registered, if you will complete your registration after this expiry date.
To pay a lower renewal fee, you must apply for general registration first and then apply to renew your provisional registration.
The Board’s registration standard, Granting general registration as a medical practitioner to Australian and New Zealand medical graduates on completion of postgraduate year one training defines the requirements that Australian and New Zealand medical graduates must meet to be eligible for general registration.
Your employer will confirm that you have completed these requirements directly with Ahpra.
You should be familiar with the details on the Board’s Interns page.
You can apply up to 4 weeks before you are due to complete your internship.
If your provisional registration is due to expire before this date, you will need to also renew your provisional registration. See how to do this above.
You will receive an email from Ahpra confirming we have received your application.
Once you submit your online application, Ahpra will review your application and contact you if they need any more information.
They will match your application with confirmation from your employer that you have completed all the requirements.
We will email you with the outcome of your application.
This depends on your responses.
We will review your application as soon as possible after you submit it so that we can confirm if we need any more information from you.
We encourage you to submit your application up to 4 weeks before you are due to finish your internship, so we have time to do this.
We will email you the outcome.
We will contact you if we are proposing to not grant you general registration. You will have an opportunity to provide more information before any final decision is made.
Log into your Ahpra portal and click on ‘Download my certificate’. Go to ‘View registration details’ on your ‘General registration’ screen. Select ‘Download Certificate’. The PDF certificate will open in a new window.
You can renew your provisional registration, if it has not expired, so that you can complete your internship. Please contact Ahpra customer service team on 1300 419 495 between 9:00am – 5:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time to ask for the appropriate form to renew your provisional registration. You will need to provide your registration number, your name and date of birth.
You need to pay both an application fee and registration fee. These fees are listed in the Medical Board of Australia’s Schedule of fees.
If you need to apply for general registration AND renew your provisional registration, you need to apply for general registration first, so you only pay the transition renewal fee for your provisional registration renewal.
We will refund your general registration fee.
Your application form is non-refundable.
The transition renewal fee, if you have paid it, is non-refundable.
