IWD 2023, supervisor PD payment, placements, exam support, and SLO recruitment updates

Your Weekly Update - 6 March 2023

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SLO Recruitment

We are pleased to advise the following individuals have been confirmed in the roles of Supervisor Liaison Officer. This is not an exhaustive list of every person who will be recruited. There are a number for whom contracts are being finalised and we will provide advice on the full list of SLOs very shortly.

State	SLO
NSW/ACT	Ken Hazelton, Ian Charlton, Mel Deery, Nirupam Gupta, Alexander Joannou, Ruchika Verma
WA	Tim Chappell
VIC	Cameron Profit
TAS	Toby Gerdener, Boris Tan
SA	Bill Geyer
QLD	Recruitment progressing, but not finalised
NT	Recruitment progressing, but not finalised

Progress testing and exam support

In March, we will be releasing a new exam support program and self-assessment progress test (SAPT) for registrars.

The SAPT contains fellowship standard AKT and KFP questions taken from previous fellowship exams and was developed in response to registrar feedback. The SAPT is designed to assist registrars identify their learning needs, self-assess progress in knowledge and clinical reasoning, experience the written exam question format and assist in exam preparation.

There will be four SAPTs released each year and registrars can track their progress.

The SAPTs are not available for supervisors to view at this stage, however, we do encourage you to ask your registrars if they have engaged in the SAPT and reflected on their results.

Supervisor Professional Development Payment *

Supervisors of a registrar in Term 1, 2023 will receive an upfront supervisor professional development payment in March. This payment is made directly by the college and is separate to the nationally consistent payments for teaching. All supervisors who currently have a registrar will receive supervisor professional development payments as follows:

Professional development payments

Supervisor role	Payment due in March 2023	Rate
Primary Supervisor	$600	4 hours $150/hr
Secondary Supervisor	$300	2 hours $150/hr

* If you wish to receive your supervisor's professional development payment in March, complete this online form to provide your bank payment details. We have extended this deadline to Friday, 17 March 2023.

Placements Calendar - Term 2

The 2023.2 practice placement dates are now confirmed. The practice confirmation and placement process commences several months prior to the start of the term to ensure the RACGP can support registrar placements in your practice.

All supervisors/practices are required to complete the practice placement confirmation survey. Practices who confirm their existing placements for 2023.2, will be excluded from the remainder of the placement process. Practices who identify they have capacity for a registrar in 2023.2 will continue through the placement process. Please note that indicating you have capacity does not guarantee a registrar placement for 2023.2.

All placement activities will take place via the Training Management System (TMS). We will provide information on what will need to be completed and share ‘how to’ videos in the lead up to each activity deadline.

For reference, GPSN has a templated Interim GP Registrar Employment Contract available for use.

Date	Activity
13 March 2023	Practice training capacity update opens
28 March 2023	Registrar re-enrolment opens
4 April 2023	Training capacity and re-enrolment closes
20 April 2023	Final training capacity and registrar region allocation confirmed for those participating in the placement process
24 April 2023	Registrars commence applying to practices
1 May 2023	Practices commence making offers
12 June 2023	Medicare Provider Number deadline

Now Launched - gplearning 2023

The new platform has arrived in order to provide members, GP registrars and supervisors the best learning experience available. An easier and more interactive platform to access to hundreds of free learning activities designed by GPs for GPs, covering an ever-increasing number of clinical topics. Read more

GP supervisors - Quick links

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