Flinders Northern Territory Regional Training Hub

Students and pre-vocational doctors

• Identification of students and pre-vocational doctors who are interested in rural practice and assist with their career planning and placement opportunities 
• Help you to navigate your postgraduate training 
• Provide access to mentoring opportunities across the medical training continuum
• Access and support for local networking events
• Linking you with sponsorships and bursaries relevant to your career path 

NT Health services

• Accreditation assistance for new training positions
• Advocacy support with specialist colleges and training providers
• Promotion of rural and remote workforce and training opportunities to stakeholders
• Providing and resourcing supervisor training opportunities to the NT health workforce
• Collaborating to strengthen the progress of a rural and remote generalist training agenda
• Identification and mapping of alternative training pathways to promote maximum training time within the NT 
• Environmental scanning including the mapping of training post data, opportunities, barriers and gaps in the training continuum across the NT

Clinical Supervisors

• Supporting and mentoring current and aspiring clinical supervisors
• In addition to the supervisor workshops that Flinders provides, the NT RTH assists with resourcing of clinical supervision training provided by health services
• Identification of training posts/ health services across all disciplines to enhance accredited supervision capacity
• Cross-cultural communication professional development for clinical educators

Formed by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Regional Training Hubs work to address medical workforce misdistribution through contributing to a ‘rural medical training pipeline’ that encompasses medical students, pre-vocational graduates, vocational trainees and, finally, rural generalist GPs and medical specialists. 

There are 26 Regional Training Hubs across rural Australia, including one in the Northern Territory, with sites in Darwin and Alice Springs.

• Improve the coordination of the stages of medical training to enable students and junior medical officers intending to practise rurally to complete as much of their medical training as possible within regional, rural and remote areas.
• Identify and mentor students and prevocational doctors with an interest in practising rurally and facilitate access to networked remote and rural vocational training opportunities at an early stage in their careers.
• Develop regional training capacity by supporting current supervisors of clinical training, assisting health services in obtaining accreditation for new training positions, and supporting local medical practitioners to become clinical supervisors.
• Strengthen existing, and develop new, connections with key stakeholders to improve the continuity of training for medical students/trainees within their region. 
• Identify regional medical workforce needs and use this information to prioritise activity.

• Local Health Providers, in particular NT Health
• Medical Speciality Colleges including GP Colleges
• Northern Territory PHN/ Rural Workforce Agency (NT PHN/RWA)
• Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) across NT including Aboriginal Medical Services Alliances of the NT (AMSANT) 
• Northern Territory Prevocational Medical Assurances Services (NT PMAS) Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP)
• NT Rural Generalist Coordination Unit

The Regional Training Hub hosts many events. Keep an eye on the Flinders NT Facebook page for further updates.