Expansion of the Rural Junior Doctor Training Innovation Fund to support the National Rural Generalist Pathway

Overview

The Expansion of the Rural Junior Doctor Training Innovation Fund (RJDTIF) to support the National Rural Generalist Pathway (national pathway) is a component of the national pathway which will provide a coordinated, efficient medical training pathway with nationally recognised skills to support rural generalists to deliver quality health care in rural, remote and regional communities. The purpose of the Expansion of the RJDTIF to support the national pathway (this grant opportunity) is to expand the existing RJDTIF to include rural primary care rotations for prevocational junior doctors on, or intending to participate in a rural generalist training program by providing around an additional 200 new rotations each training year. Prevocational junior doctors under this grant opportunity will be given the opportunity to work in rural primary care settings located in Modified Monash Model (MMM) 2-7 areas. This grant opportunity is only open to the Coordination Units who have the responsibility of managing the new rural primary care rotations as part of their role coordinating end-to-end training for rural generalist and will run over the 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 financial years. Please note, Coordination Units may choose to sub-contract to third party organisations that can provide pathways for prevocational doctors to access a training rotation in a rural primary care setting and in delivering the funded activities for their specific jurisdiction. These arrangements will need to be provided in the application.