The Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (MiniCEX) will be available from 2009. To be assessed in the period between February and July 2009, please note that you need to enrol by 2 January 2009. For registrars who believe they will complete their training at the end of 2009 and are required to sit ACRRM assessment, we urge you to enrol in the February to July MiniCEX period. This is because the StAMPS component of assessment must be sat last and can only be attempted once all other components of the ACRRM Assessment Program have been successfully completed.
If you have any queries regarding assessment, please contact Paul Hogan or email
MCQ – 21 February 2009
StAMPS – 02 & 03 May 2009 (enrolment closure date 13/03/2009)
MiniCEX – for February to July 2009 period, enrolments close on 2 January 2009
Keep your eye out because these links will appear as icons on the right side of the screen (where the ETG & IMGateway links are).
2009 - ARSP Procedural Posts
Thursday, 27 November 2008
All ARSP procedural posts for 2009 have now been filled
Call For Applicants
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
The VFME Board has established an annual bursary to recognise the important contribution of Peter Graham to rural procedural practice and to VFME. Peter, who represented ACRRM as a foundation member of the company, served as a Director from the establishment of the company until his death in February 2008. Indeed, it was Peter’s suggestion that we name our RTP ‘Victoria Felix’. For Peter, this was indeed the lucky part of Victoria.
Palliative Care Professional Development For Health Professionals
Friday, 10 October 2008
The Centre for Palliative Care Education and Research (CPCER) at St Vincent’s Hospital has developed a University of Melbourne accredited graduate award program in palliative care.
News from Brian Murphy regarding his recent working holiday
I thought I would send a note to Vic Felix, perhaps to go in the newsletter or an email, about my experiences on my sabbatical in Canada.
In February this year my wife Jennifer and I came to live in The town of Sechelt, north of Vancouver in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Our stay is for nine months.
In the past few days, it has come to the attention of the RACGP that there are some potential limitations in medical indemnity cover for general practice registrars. These potential limitations relate to the way in which indemnity cover through medical defence organisations and employer based indemnity cover (eg. for hospital employed doctors) intersect, and the ways in which the varying profile of health care is provided to patients among registrars (eg. ‘moonlighting’ outside training posts). As a result, the RACGP believes that it is prudent for registrars to check that the full scope of their medical practice is covered by insurance (whether that is through their medical defence organisation or their employer). The RACGP is having discussions about these limitations with the medical defence organisations, who have expressed a willingness to look at the issues and consider policy enhancements. This reflects the ongoing importance of confirming the scope of insurance cover whenever there is a change to the scope of your medical practice – something which all GPs, not only registrars, need to keep in the back of their minds.
VFME Newsletter
Friday, 11 April 2008
Please click here to download our latest newsletter! (2 mb file).
RACGP – Pre-Exam Tutorial Series
Thursday, 03 April 2008
VFME has a copy of the RACGP Pre-Exam Tutorial Series on DVD. If you would like to borrow these, please contact Rhonda Penny via email
or telephone 5441 9300. Due to demand, you will only be loaned these for three weeks, and asked to return them.
Overview of VFME GPRime for Supervisors
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
What it can do for you while you’re with VFME:
GPRime is the On-Line system that the VFME training program uses for communication, and for keeping track of completion of educational requirements. It is also a powerful educational tool.
The system provides the following:
All communication and document sharing requirements for planned educational events and meetings.
Documentation of educational requirements and documentation of completion of these requirements.
Web based platform for submission of reporting and feedback forms.
Individual learning planners and learning needs analysis tools.
Registrar portfolio of completed learning activities.
Links to quality GP educational sites.
Educational resource sharing.
Group bulk emailing capabilities.
RRIPS & RRMA 3 reform - updated FAQs
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Please see the link below for information on the reforms to RRIPS and RRMA 3.
VFME will be running our FEPP program on the following dates in 2008:
Sunday 3rd February 2008
Sunday 22nd June 2008
The program is open to VFME registrars and doctors in the region preparing to sit the RACGP fellowship exams.
If you are interested in attending please contact Megan McNair on
or 03 5441 9300, who will be happy to send you out a course enrolment form.
Advanced Rural Skills Posts (ARSP’s) – Vacancies for 2008
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
VFME has the following Advanced Rural Skills Posts (ARSP’s) currently vacant for 2008:
Anaesthetics – Northern Hospital – 2 positions
A&E – Bendigo Health – 1 position
These posts are fully funded and are available to GP’s or GP Registrars. Please contact Megan McNair on 03 5441 9300 for more information.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Monday, 29 October 2007
All registrars who completed their mandatory hospital terms prior to entering the GP Training program are required to complete RPL paperwork for their hospital terms. This must be done in your first year of GP training (i.e. prior to the end of your advanced term). If you have any questions about your RPL, please contact Megan McNair or Kaye Phillips on 5441 9300.
At the recent GPET convention in Brisbane, Dr Gerard Ingham presented a “Curriculum Framework for GP Supervisors”. The curriculum framework was written by Dr Ingham in collaboration with a group of Medical Educators and GP Supervisors in Victoria and Tasmania. The project was funded by a grant from GPET.
The services and resources of the RACGP John Murtagh Library are freely available to Registrars, Medical Educators, Supervisors and RTP staff in the form of a traditional "distance" loans and information service complemented by a growing range of web based resources which can be accessed via the secure areas of our website.
