What you need to do
In the prevocational phase of your career, you have specific reporting obligations as detailed under the:
As a prevocational doctor, you must:
- log into your Bonded Return of Service System (BRoSS) every 6 months to ensure all personal details are current, especially your email address
- ensure all notifiable event requirements have been met, including your
- ‘Ahpra registration’
- ‘Vocational training starting date goal’ under your ‘Ahpra registration’ if required
- plan, activate and complete RoSO plans in BRoSS for any work you wish to credit towards your RoSO.
Updating your vocational training commencement
- Update BRoSS using the ‘Vocational training starting date goal’ under your ‘Ahpra registration’ advisory.
- If you have not commenced your vocational training, you will need to update the goal date to reflect a future placeholder date.
- If you have commenced your vocational training, please update your ‘Commencement of vocational training’ by clicking 'Advise'.
Prevocational vs vocational training
You are classified as prevocational if you have:
- completed your course of study in medicine at an Australian university
- not yet been admitted to a vocational training program.
In BRoSS, prevocational training is further divided into intern and prevocational phases. These 2 phases are separated to accurately track events associated with key career milestones.
Your vocational training starts when you begin a specialist training program with an accredited Australian medical college. When you update your ‘Commencement of vocational training’ in BRoSS, your vocational phase will unlock.
Some colleges offer both prevocational and vocational training. For example, the Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) provides:
- Basic Physician Training (considered prevocational)
- Advanced Physician Training (considered vocational).
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