CARMM provides accredited on-the-job training for rural generalist doctors in Antarctic, remote and extreme healthcare, ensuring a future supply of highly qualified professionals ready to work across rural, regional and remote Australia.
Australian Antarctic Medical Practitioners
The Australian Antarctic Division Polar Medicine Unit provides mentorship, supervision and training posts for ACRRM registrars and trainees. Many have achieved Fellowship (FACRRM) and become fully trained and supported to work in remote and extreme environments.
Training posts are supported by face-to-face intensive training in Tasmania, and remote telehealth education, 24/7 support and supervision at remote sites. ACRRM accredited training posts include Remote Medicine Advanced Specialist Training (AST) and Primary Rural and Remote Medicine.
On return from Antarctica, the experience and training of these doctors provides opportunities to continue working with the Australian Antarctic Program and complete fellowship training or deliver health services to Tasmanian and Australian regional and remote communities.
Find out more about becoming an Australian Antarctic Medical Practitioner.
Rural Generalists
A Rural Generalist (RG) medical practitioner is a General Practitioner who has specific expertise in providing medical care for rural, remote or isolated communities. RGs provide primary care services and emergency medicine, and have training in additional skills such as obstetrics, anaesthetics, remote medicine, population health or mental health services.
RGs provide;
- Unsupervised, unreferred community or primary care of individuals, families and communities.
- In-patient and emergency care in a hospital or related setting such as a remote health centre or multipurpose health service.
- Skills in at least one approved medical discipline to sustain continual and comprehensive healthcare services in regional, rural and remote communities.
- Services across the continuum of care in a range of settings and service delivery models including outreach where required.
- A population health approach with relevance to the community in which they practice.
- Support as part of a multi-professional and multi-disciplinary team, both local and distant, to provide a ‘system of care’ aligned and responsive to community needs.
Find out more about the Tasmanian Rural Generalist Pathway or the Single Employer Model.
ACRRM Accredited registrar training and posts
ACRRM is accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) for setting professional medical standards for training, assessment, certification and continuing professional development in the specialty of general practice.
It is the only College in Australia dedicated to rural and remote medicine, providing a broad range of knowledge and skills to produce safe, confident and independent RGs.
The Australian Antarctic Division Polar Medicine Unit is an accredited training post in ‘Advanced Skills Training: Remote Medicine’ and ‘Core Generalist Training’.
Find out more about ACRRM, ACRRM Fellowship, ACRRM Training and Education or the AAD Polar Medicine as an ACRRM training post.
Telehealth enabled remote supervision
The Australian Antarctic Division has been supporting and supervising remote Antarctic Medical practitioners via telehealth for more than seven decades.
With world-leading 24/7 advanced telehealth capabilities our Antarctic and remote medicine experts at the AAD Polar Medicine Unit in Hobart, supervise, train and support ACRRM rural generalists in the delivery of clinical services to Australia’s remotest communities.
This Antarctic model of care enables the delivery of advanced healthcare during long periods of complete isolation in the extreme environment at the bottom of the Earth.