Psychiatry Workforce Program 2022-2023

Overview

This grant opportunity is funded under the 2021-22 Budget Mental Health Workforce packages to attract, upskill, distribute and retain key mental health professionals to address mental health workforce shortages and maldistribution.  The Program is intended to improve access to high quality mental health care for all Australians, with a focus on those living in rural and remote areas.  The Program’s objectives are to: • increase the psychiatrist workforce and therefore consumer access to psychiatric care by increasing the number of training places, including in rural and remote areas across Australia • increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychiatry trainees • promote psychiatry to medical graduates through early engagement of medical students. The intended outcomes of the Program are: • access to psychiatric care is increased, especially in rural and remote locations across Australia • more medical graduates choosing psychiatry as a career • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students and graduates are supported to enter into psychiatry training, and • a Diploma of Psychiatry is developed, operationalised and promoted to medical practitioners. The Program consists of four complementary activities: • a salary contribution for new psychiatry training posts and supervisor positions, • supporting the development of a rural and remote psychiatry training pathway and network, • recruiting medical graduates into psychiatry training through early engagement of medical students.   To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side.