GO8497: Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS)

The purpose of the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) grant is to provide funding to RVTS Ltd. for the delivery of General Practitioner (GP) and Rural Generalist (RG) fellowship education and training from the beginning of the 2027 training year through to the end of the 2030 training year.

The RVTS provides vocational training for doctors to achieve fellowship with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) or both Colleges.

The RVTS is a three- or four-year training program (depending on fellowship endpoint) and focuses on facilitating structured distance education and supervision, including workforce retention in rural, remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The program supports doctors to complete specialist training under a place-based model through either a Remote or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health pathway.

Through its workforce retention model the program supports GP and RG workforce stability and continuity of care in high need communities.

Training is provided across two pathways: Remote Pathway: Doctors working in rural and remote regions MM 4-7 as classified by the Modified Monash Model (MMM).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Pathway: Doctors working in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) and Aboriginal Medical Services (AMS) within MM 2-7 locations.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

To be eligible, an applicant must be the listed organisation, Remote Vocational Training Scheme Limited (ABN 99 122 891 838), and must have received an invitation to apply from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

The applicant must declare compliance with the Commonwealth Child Safe Framework and the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 requirements.

If successful, relevant personnel working on the grant activity must have and maintain a Working with Children check, Working with Vulnerable People registration, or equivalent applicable state or territory check.

The applicant cannot receive funding from another government source for the same purpose or activity, except where a joint contribution from state, territory or local government is specified.