Opportunities

Below is a list of opportunities for healthcare providers working in remote and extreme environments.

Become an Australian Antarctic Medical Practitioner

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is currently recruiting for Antarctic Medical Practitioners (AMP).

AMPs provide complete generalist medical, emergency surgical and emergency dental care for a remote community at an Australian Antarctic or sub-Antarctic research station. They also provide healthcare during voyages and in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic field environments.

The AMP is generally the sole medical practitioner on station, providing comprehensive health care services for 15 to 30 expeditioners over winter and up to 120 during summer (October to March). There may be up to 130 passengers and crew on expedition voyages.

The AAD’s Polar Medicine Unit focuses on recruiting for winter AMP positions (total employment 15 to 18 months, with 4 to 5 months of pre-departure training and 10 to 15 months in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic). Shorter term appointments (including ship, summer station and field doctors) are typically filled by returning AMPs, who have previously completed the wintering pre-departure training.

Please note there are critical eligibility requirements:

1. Australian Medical Registration Requirements – Full General Medical Registration (see AHPRA)
2. Australian Citizenship requirements

Benefits you will receive:

• The annual base salary when in Australia starts from $157,881 – $230,244 per annum.
• Base salary + additional allowances when in Antarctica starts from $228,418 – $300,781 per annum.
• 24/7 remote advanced telemedicine support and training whilst down south.
• ACRRM accredited remote and Antarctic medicine predeparture training and upskilling (up to 5 months).
• Medical indemnity and professional development support.
• Opportunities for research and higher degrees in healthcare in remote and extreme environments. The AAD and CARMM has developed, with the University of Tasmania (UTAS), the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments and higher awards.
• A generous employer superannuation contribution of up to 15.4% will be paid in addition to salary and allowances.
• You will accrue recreation leave at the equivalent of 20 days per annum pro rata. (Please note that recreation leave is not available in Antarctica but will be paid out on return to Australia.)

For more information and to apply please visit https://jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-antarctica/antarctic-medical-practitioners/antarctic-medical-practitioner/.

Applications close on 16 November 2025.

Apply to join the Tasmanian Rural Generalist Pathway today!

To become part of the Tasmanian Rural Generalist Program, candidates need to complete an online application. The steps are as follows:

• Check eligibility to join TRGP against the below criteria (TRGP Affiliation Levels).
• Apply online
• Your application will be assessed by the TRGP Director
• You will receive an email confirming the outcome of your application.
• You will need to accept the offer of a place on the program.
• Upon acceptance of the offer, you will be sent a welcome pack and a certificate.

What is a Rural Generalist?

Rural Generalists are general practitioners with extended scope of practice, who provide primary care, emergency medicine and in-patient care and have additional training/skills in a sub-specialty area.

The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) has recently announced its intention to recommend to the Health Ministers that Rural Generalist Medicine be approved as a specialty within the discipline of General Practice.

The benefits of working rurally

We know that people who live outside of metropolitan areas experience poorer general health outcomes and have a lower life expectancy than their city counterparts.

Working in a rural or remote location offers the chance to make a real difference. This, combined with the diversity of medical practice, the wide variety of patient presentations and the opportunity to regularly use a broad range of skills, makes Rural Generalism one of the most professionally challenging and rewarding areas of medicine.

In addition, rural practitioners get to live in some of the most beautiful parts of the state and benefit from becoming integral members of their local community.

What does the Tasmanian Rural Generalist Pathway do?

The team at the Tasmanian Rural Generalist Pathway (TRGP) are passionate about growing our own local rural workforce.

Our role is to encourage and support doctors at all stages of training, from medical students through to the early stages of Fellowship, along their journey to become Rural Generalists.

TRGP Affiliation Levels

• Associate Member

  Level of training:

  Medical students

  Criteria:

  • Any student undertaking a medical degree with the University of Tasmania
  • Has lived in a rural area or interested in working in rural/remote location in the future.
  • Member of Rustica, Utas National Rural Health Student Network

• Member

  Level of training:

  PGY 1, PGY2+

  Criteria:

  • Any prevocational doctor working in Tasmania who is keen to pursue a career in rural generalism.
  • An associate member who has completed their medical degree and is working as a prevocational medical practitioner in Tasmania can automatically progress to Member

• Registrar

  Level of training:

  PGY3+

  Criteria:

  • Accepted by ACRRM or RACGP (on their rural generalist training pathway) and has commenced training with the relevant College.
  • Includes rural generalist trainees undertaking their Advanced/Additional Skill(s)
  • A Member who is undertaking the above training and working as a medical practitioner in Tasmania can automatically progress to Registrar

• Fellow

  Level of training:

  1st two years of Fellowship

  Criteria:

  • Attained Rural Generalist Fellowship from either College and working in Tasmania.
  • A Registrar who has attained the above and is working in Tasmania can automatically progress to Fellow

Support provided by the TRGP

• Associate Member

  • TRGP will sponsor and support student events that have a rural focus and support Rustica
  • Career support
  • Welcome pack consisting of backpack and drink bottle

• Member

  • Career support
  • Networking opportunities and training events
  • Rural primary care (John Flynn Prevocational Doctor Program) rotations
  • Support to obtain relevant hospital rotations if not employed as an RG RMO
  • Free attendance at the annual Tasmanian Rural Health Conference
  • Welcome pack consisting of backpack and drink bottle, navy scrubs, and T-shirt

• Registrar

  • Case management provided by the relevant College
  • Networking opportunities and training events
  • Professional development support
  • Free attendance at the annual Tasmanian Rural Health Conference
  • Welcome pack consisting of backpack and drink bottle, Caribbean scrubs, and T-shirt

• Fellow

  • Networking opportunities and events
  • Professional development support
  • Supervisory training opportunities
  • Welcome pack consisting of backpack and drink bottle, black scrubs, and T-shirt