Rehabilitation Medicine
Conjoint Training Program Leading to FRACP/FAFRM

Supervising Committee

The Committee for Paediatric Physician Training and the Board of Censors of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine

Definition of the Specialty

Rehabilitation Medicine is the part of the science of medicine involved with the prevention and reduction of disability and handicap arising from impariments and the management of disability from a physical, psycho-social and vocational viewpoint in children and adolescents.

General Principles

1. Advanced Training in Paediatric Rehabilitation Medicine will be supervised by the Board of Censors of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFRM), with major responsibility undertaken by the paediatric representatives on the Paediatric Rehabilitation Training Committee, (paediatric rehabilitation paediatricians appointed by the AFRM, BPC and a CPPT representative).
   
2. Advanced Training in Paediatric Rehabilitation Medicine will be for three years following satisfactory completion of basic paediatric training and the FRACP Examination in paediatrics.
   
3. The general objective of Advanced Training is to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary for the prevention, assessment and management of impairment, disability and handicap in children (including adolescents).
   
4. If you are seeking to also satisfy training requirements in another specialty of paediatric medicine, you must seek advice from the CPPT or the appropriate SAC. An extra year of Advanced Training may be required to satisfy both requirements.
   
5. Mandatory requirements must be completed

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