Geriatric Medicine
2024 curricula renewal implementation
Trainees who start Advanced Training in Geriatric Medicine in 2024 will follow the new curriculum.
Trainees who started before 2024 will continue to follow the PREP program requirements.
Contact us if you have any questions about the new program.
You're viewing the new program handbook.
This information is for trainees who start in the 2024 training year.
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Program overview
In Advanced Training in Geriatric Medicine, you'll explore in-depth specialty training in the diagnosis and management of complex and/or multifactorial internal medicine disorders that impact the cognition and functional status of the older person. You will train under supervision and prepare for independent practice as a consultant. The new program builds your skills through learning, teaching and assessment tools.
Program updates
This handbook outlines the learning, teaching, and assessment (LTA) program requirements for the 2024 training year. For this year, transitional arrangements are in place, retaining existing PREP work-based assessments. Planning for full implementation is underway, to launch new assessment tools and associated technology to support the curriculum standards and programmatic assessment approach. You can find out more in the full implementation program handbook (PDF). We will provide sufficient notice about program requirements for 2025.
Entry criteria
Prospective trainees must have:
- completed RACP Basic Training, including the Written and Clinical Examinations
- general medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia if applying in Australia or a medical registration with a general scope of practice with the Medical Council of New Zealand and a practising certificate if applying in Aotearoa New Zealand
- an Advanced Training position in an RACP accredited training setting or network, or an approved non-core training position
New and current trainees need to apply for Advanced Training each year.
New curriculum standards
The Curriculum Standards (PDF) are summarised as Learning Goals.
Learning Goals articulate what trainees need to Be, Do and Know, and are assessed throughout training.
Note: Assessment areas and rating scales used in the 2024 training year (PREP tools and Supervisor’s Report) are not aligned to the new curriculum learning goals.
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Be
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Competencies are statements of professional behaviours, values and practices expected of a trainee as they adopt the professional identity of a physician, organised by the domains of the RACP Professional Practice Framework. |
1. Professional behaviours
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Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are essential work tasks that trainees need to be able to do unsupervised by the end of training. Each program comprises a tailored mixture of both common and program-specific EPAs.
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2. Team leadership
3. Supervision and teaching
4. Quality improvement
5. Clinical assessment and management
6. Management of transitions in care
7. Acute care
8. Longitudinal care
9. Communication with patients
10. Prescribing
11. Investigations
12. Clinical management
13. End-of-life care
14. Cognitive assessment and management
15. Comprehensive geriatric assessment
16. Complex family meetings
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Knowledge Guides provide detailed guidance on the important topics and concepts trainees need to understand to become experts in their chosen
specialty.
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17. Clinical and social sciences
18. Cognition and mental state
19. Falls and mobility
20. Frailty and functional decline
21. Continence
22. Pain management
23. Neurological disorders
24. Specialty medical conditions as they apply to ageing
25. Peri- and post-operative assessment and management
26. Rehabilitation of specific conditions as applied to ageing
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Nominating eligible supervisors
From mid-2023, you’re required to nominate eligible supervisors who meet the supervision requirements of the training program.
You can find a list of eligible supervisors:
- in the supervision section of your online registration form
- on MyRACP
The MyRACP list is not available for post-Fellowship trainees. Post-Fellowship trainees can check the list in their online registration form or contact us to confirm supervisor eligibility.
Application deadlines
Australia
15 February | first half or whole of the current year
31 August | second half of the current year
Aotearoa New Zealand
15 December | first half or whole of the following year
30 April | May to August rotations
30 June | second half of the current year
You're responsible for organising all necessary documentation for submission by the deadline. We recommend that you keep a copy of your application for future reference.
Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Refer to the program handbook for details on how to complete LTA requirements in 2024.
View the 2024 handbook (PDF)
Requirements overview
2024 requirements
Registration
Apply or re-register
Teaching
2 x Education Supervisors
Assessments
4 x Case-based Discussions
1 x Learning Plan
4 x Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercises
2 x Professional Qualities Reflections
2 x Supervisor’s Reports
Advanced Training summary
After 36 months of certified training time, you will have completed:
- 24 months minimum of core training
- 12 months maximum of non-core training
- 24 months of training in accredited settings in Australia and/or Aotearoa New Zealand
- Training in at least 2 different accredited settings
- Assessments
- 1 x Advanced Training Research Project
- Courses
- RACP Induction to Advanced Training (available in 2025)
- RACP Health Policy, Systems and Advocacy (online)
- RACP Supervisor Professional Development Program (online or face-to-face)
- RACP Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety resource (online)
- Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Cardiac Genomics masterclass (optional)
Training categories
| Core: Level A |
18 to 36 months of geriatric medicine rotations across a range of disciplines. A minimum of 18 months must be spent in geriatric medicine rotations. |
| Core: Level B |
0 to 18 months of training in geriatric medicine or other complementary disciplines (it's recommended that no more than 6 months is spent in any one subspecialty unless dual
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| Non-core: Level C |
0 to 12 months of training in other areas of relevance to geriatric medicine including research, education, and other subspecialties of relevance.
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If you're a trainee following the new curricula, see our 2024 transition year frequently asked questions for guidance and support.