Medi-Nav Orientation Resource v6, 2024

3.8.8 Information for interns Medical Registration As an Australian medical graduate, you receive provisional registration from the Medical Board of Australia and must then successfully complete a year of work-based generalist training in an accredited intern (PGY1) program before receiving general registration from the Board. The Medical Board of Australia has approved the standards and requirements relating to PGY1 training within the new National Framework for Prevocational (PGY1 & PGY2) Medical Training. This is considered a transition period with the new standards and requirements for PGY1 to be implemented in 2024, with PGY2 components due to be implemented from 2025. The National Framework supports these two prevocational training years because the first two years are crucial to your development as a competent and compassionate medical practitioner. As a provisionally registered medical practitioner during PGY1 and during PGY2 when you will have general registration, your responsibilities are defined by the Medical Board of Australia’s registration standards. During your intern year you can only practice in an accredited intern position. Under the new National Framework, to become eligible for general registration, interns must complete: a 47-week intern year, whereby you will be required to complete: • a minimum of 4 terms of at least 10 weeks, • with a maximum of 25% in any one subspecialty, and • a maximum of 50% in any one specialty (including its subspecialties). • For example, interns may not work for more than 50% of the year in surgical terms or paediatric terms. Some health services offer the option of part-time work, and in these cases PGY1 must be completed within three years of commencement. During the year all interns must have exposure to the four clinical experience categories: A. patients presenting with undifferentiated illness B. patients with chronic illness C. patients with acute and critical illness D. peri-procedural patient care. Apply for your initial Medicare provider number and your prescriber number Medical interns are required to obtain a prescriber number which will enable prescriptions under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and can do so from Day 1 of employment provided the prescriber number has been issued. In order to issue a prescriber number, under the current Services Australia process, interns must first obtain a Medicare provider number using the hospital location details where they will be employed for their internship. Interns will, in practice, be operating under their employing hospital’s provider number rather than their individual provider number.