Health practitioners
General practitioners
Information on training opportunities, support initiatives and legislation affecting general practitioners.
Training
Support and incentives
Medicare
Training
Support and incentives
- HECS Reimbursement Scheme
- More Doctors for Outer Metropolitan Areas Relocation Incentive Grant
- Registrars Rural Incentive Payments Scheme
- Rural and Remote General Practice Program
- Rural Health Support, Education and Training program
- Rural Retention Program
- Training for Rural and Remote Procedural General Practitioners Program
- Workforce Support for Rural General Practitioners program Top of page
Medicare
- Medicare provider number eligibility
- Districts of Workforce Shortage
- Australian General Practice Training Program
- International Medical Recruitment Strategy (overseas trained doctors)
- Other Medical Practitioners programs
- Prevocational General Practice Placements Program
- Review of the Medicare provider number legislation
Related Links
- DoctorConnect - a starting point for overseas trained doctors who may be considering work in Australia and for employers seeking to recruit them.
- Exchange Visitor Sponsorship Program - information for Australian doctors wanting to study in the USA on a J1 visa.
- Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association - advocates improvements in Indigenous health in Australia and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to work in medicine.