Overview
Northern Territory General Practice Education is the regional General Practice training provider for the NT, coordinating Registrar placements in urban, rural and remote locations from the Top End to Central Australia. Its aim is to train General Practitioners who are competent to practice anywhere in Australia without supervision and are able to provide high quality primary health care services relevant to individual and community health needs.
Registrars who complete the program successfully are trained to:
- Provide primary, continuing, comprehensive, whole patient care to individuals, families and the community
- Provide high quality efficient services
- Identify and meet the health needs of special groups in the community
- Behave in a professional, responsible and ethical manner
- Understand the need for General Practitioners to be distributed according to community health needs
- Be accessible
- Be integrated into the health care system
NTGPE offers highly supported, flexible and challenging vocational training opportunities for GP Registrars keen to experience something a little different to what is otherwise available. The Northern Territory provides excellent opportunities for training in Aboriginal health and understanding the complexities and interaction of individual care with a population health approach. NTGPE supports Registrars in their training towards fellowship of the RACGP or ACRRM.
Training in the NT allows you to choose from a variety of locations, ranging from urban mainstream general practices to remote Aboriginal community clinics.
A network of experienced GP Supervisors provides practice based teaching, mentoring and professional development. NTGPE also manages the Prevocational General Practice Placement Program, a program of placements for Prevocational Doctors into remote NT communities.
NTGPE supports vocational training with a diverse and enthusiastic group of staff across a variety of locations, including administrative staff, cultural and medical educators, and information technology support and research advisors.
