Flinders NT Regional Training Hub
Our vision: A thriving and dynamic medical workforce which delivers healthcare to all lands and communities of the Northern Territory.
The foundation qualities of this workforce are: competence, confidence, compassion and cultural respect.
The Flinders Northern Territory Regional Training Hub (Flinders NT RTH) was created to further develop medical specialist and rural generalist training capacity through effective collaboration with local and national stakeholders, thereby addressing medical workforce needs in the Northern Territory. We are currently working with relevant colleges, health services and training providers to identify and prioritise the areas of need and in turn, aim to build well-coordinated, and well supported, vocational training pathways in the NT.
What the Hub is and what we do
Regional Training Hubs were formed by the Commonwealth Department of Health 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.
We work closely with various stakeholders to expand, align and integrate specialist and generalist medical education, supervision and training capacity in the Territory.
- 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 Top End Health Service (TEHS) and Central Australia Health Service (CAHS)
- Medical Colleges including GP Colleges
- NT General Practice Education (NGTPE)
- Nothern Territory PHN (NT PHN)
- Aboriginal Medical Services (AMS) across NT including Aboriginal Medical Services Alliances of the NT (AMSANT)
- Northern Territory Prevocational Medical Assurances Services (NT PMAS)
- Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP)
How we can assist you
- 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
- 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
- Supporting and mentoring current and aspiring clinical supervisors
- In addition to the supervisor workshops that Flinders NT provides, the Flinders 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
Contact us
Top End
Darwin, Flinders Royal Darwin Hospital Building 4A
Phone: + 61 8 920 0253
Email: fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au
Central Australia
Alice Springs, Centre for Remote Health
Phone: + 61 8 8951 4772
Email: fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au
Sturt Rd, Bedford Park
South Australia 5042
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