What are the eligibility requirements to sit the ACRRM Fellowship Exams?

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Date Updated: 2026-03-11

The Fellowship programs that will lead you to achieving ACRRM Fellowship are the Australian General Practice Training (AGPT), Independent Pathway (IP), and the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS). Please note RVTS is managed by RVTS, while AGPT and IP are managed by ACRRM.

Once you have gone through the application process for a Fellowship program, you will be onboarded and you will then need to complete the training and education requirements before you can sit the ACRRM Fellowship exams or finish the assessment requirements.

What are the training requirements?

You will need to finish 3 years of Core Generalist Training (CGT) and 1-2 years of your chosen Advanced Specialised Training (AST). 

CGT enables you to have general skills and knowledge in primary, secondary and emergency care in a rural and remote context. This includes:

• 12 months in primary care
• 3 months in secondary care
• 3 months in emergency care
• 12 months in rural or remote practice (MMM 4-7)
• Paediatrics
• Obstetrics
• Anaesthetics

AST aims to refine your skills and knowledge specifically to 1 discipline and you will work in a specialised rural area that needs the chosen discipline. The 12 disciplines are:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Academic Practice
• Adult Internal Medicine
• Anaesthetics
• Emergency Medicine
• Mental Health
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Paediatrics
• Palliative Care
• Population Health
• Remote Medicine
• Surgery

What are the education requirements?

Throughout the 4-year program, you will need to accomplish the following education requirements:

• Primary care orientation
• A series of online modules 
• Face to face and virtual workshops
• Cultural education with Joint Colleges Training Services (JCTS).
• ACRRM Fellowship Education Program (AFEP):
  • Sem A & B: 5x online modules, online MCQs, 3-day virtual workshop, & 2-day face-to-face workshop each semester
  • Sem C: 5x online modules & online MCQs
  • Sem D: 5x online modules & online MCQs
• Emergency Medicine Courses:
  • Rural Emergency Skills Training (REST)
  • Advanced Life Support 2 (ALS 2)

What are the ACRRM Fellowship exams (a.k.a. assessment requirements)?

ACRRM has fellowship exams which are both clinic based and theoretical. Generally, assessments are offered twice each year although there are exceptions to this. The exams that you will undertake are:  

• Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (miniCEX) 
  • A workplace based assessment used to evaluate your direct contact with patients.

• Multiple-Source Feedback (MSF) 
  • Feedback from patients and colleagues to assess your interpersonal and professional behaviour, development, and clinical skills. 

• Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) 
  • An exam to test your applied knowledge, recall and reasoning across all areas of rural and remote practice.

• Case Based Discussion (CBD) 
  • An assessment of your clinical reasoning and application of knowledge using your clinical cases in your own clinical context.
    
• Structured Assessment using Multiple Patient Scenarios (StAMPS) 
  • An assessment that focused on rural and remote practice. 

You’ll also need to submit logbooks, projects, and supervisor reports. Once you have successfully completed the program and the necessary requirements, you will be able to achieve Fellowship with ACRRM.

Interested? Apply for the ACRRM Independent Pathway here, ACRRM Australian General Practice Training here, or the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) here.

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Information from this blog has been taken directly from:

• ACRRM Fellowship Training and Education – 11 March 2026
• ACRRM A guide to the ACRRM Fellowship Education Program – 11 March 2026
• ACRRM 2027 Eligibility and Application Guide – 12/24/25 – 11 March 2026
• ACRRM Rural Generalist Assessment (Assessment Modalities) – 11 March 2026
• ACRRM Fellowship Training Program Handbook – 1/13/26 – 11 March 2026

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