Career pathways
Working in the NT - You can make a difference!
Living and working in the Northern Territory offers a range of benefits. Typically, the “NT” offers a relaxed lifestyle and the opportunity to live in a unique natural environment where you can make a difference!
There are plenty of opportunities to train in the NT from Intern to Registrar and the Flinders NT Regional Training Hub (Flinders NT RTH) can help you get on a pathway that meets your needs.
Training in the NT
The Northern Territory provides unique opportunities for training the health workforce including:
- Developing skills and knowledge relevant to working with Indigenous people, helping to “Close the Gap” between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health status
- Working in a context of high clinical demand, with the opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills in a rural and remote context
- Opportunity to specialise
- Well established General Practice training through NTGPE with the opportunity to obtain Fellowship of ACRRM or RACGP
- Accredited intern and postgraduate training programs
- Working towards a rural and remote generalist pathway for GPs
Information for medical officers about working in Northern Territory (NT) hospitals
NT hospitals provide a range of services often not seen in similar sized hospitals due to the wide range of medical conditions, cross-cultural blend of patients, and combination of rural and remote locations.
The Northern Territory has a strong focus on generalism for their training programs. You will, at the Intern and Resident Medical Officer levels have the opportunity to consolidate, maintain and widen your knowledge, skills and experience, as well as have access to opportunities to explore potential careers in rural and remote settings.
You can apply to complete an internship at either the Darwin Hospital or the Alice Springs Hospital through the Northern Territory Department of Health. Information about internship
Resident Medical Officers (RMO) may choose to work for the Central Australian Health Service (CAHS), incorporating Alice Springs and Tennant Creek hospitals or the Top End Health Service (TEHS), incorporating Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine and Gove hospitals. Information about residency
Royal Darwin Hospital medical officer recruitment - for information on the recruitment and training of medical officers at Royal Darwin Hospital.
Career options the Royal Darwin Hospital include:
- Basic and advanced physician training
- nephrology
- cardiology
- haematology
- oncology
- endocrinology
- general surgery
- maxillofacial surgery
- orthopaedic surgery
- ENT
- critical care
- maternal and child health
- mental health and pathology
- Anaesthetics
- paediatrics
- surgery
- obstetrics and gynaecology
- emergency medicine
- intensive care
- addiction medicine
- clinical forensic medicine
- psychiatry
- public health
- retrieval
- nephrology and physician training (basic and advanced)
Northern Territory General Practice Education (NTGPE) is one of nine, federally funded regional training organisations responsible for training the next generation of GPs and are the sole training organisation in the NT.
GP registrars who train with NTGPE are given the opportunity to train through either Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) or Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).
Medical career pathway webinars
Living and training in the NT offer unique and exciting possibilities for medical practitioners. The 2020 Medical Career Pathway Webinars will give you one-stop-shop access to medical specialist training colleges, NT consultants and trainees, employment and local training organisations who can assist you with your career planning. College representatives will provide information regarding their programs, the application process, local training and workforce pathways.
Watch the recorded series from each specialist College:
Medical career pathway webinar series continues
Throughout 2021 the Medical Career Pathway Webinars continue. Watch the recorded series.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR)
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
Not sure what vocational training you can do in the NT?
* flowcharts are currently under review, please contact fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au for up to date information.
Flinders NT RTH has produced a series of flowcharts outlining the vocational training pathways for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists in the NT. Click on the links below for further information:
- Anaesthetics Training with ANZCA (PDF 224KB)
- Clinical Radiology and Radiation Oncology with RANZCR (PDF 213KB)
- Dermatology training with ACD (PDF 236KB)
- Emergency Medicine Training with ACEM (PDF 238KB)
- General Practice Rural Generalist training with ACRRM (PDF 437KB)
- General Practice Rural Generalist training with RACGP (PDF 455KB)
- Intensive Care Training with CICM (PDF 274KB)
- Medical Administration Training with RACMA (PDF 203KB)
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology training with RANZCOG (PDF 252KB)
- Ophthamology Training with RANZCO (PDF 245KB)
- Pathology training with RCPA (PDF 320KB)
- Physician Training - Paediatrics with RACP (PDF 304KB)
- Physician Training - Adult with RACP (PDF 347KB)
- Psychiatry Training with RANZCP (PDF 291KB)
- Sports and Exercise Medicine Training with ACSEP (PDF 199KB)
- Surgical Training with RACS (PDF 253KB)
Contact us on fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au to make a time to discuss your training options.
Career planning and professional development
How the Hub can help
The Flinders NT RTH organise and sponsor a variety of career planning and professional development opportunities throughout the year. We can also put you in contact with experts to help you map out your career path. Email fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au now to make an appointment to talk about your career and how we might be able to assist.
The Flinders NT RTH organises career expos and webinars. The career expos give you the opportunity to talk face to face with experts from the health services, training organisations and colleges. The webinar series compliments the expos with 60 minute virtual presentations from college representatives and NT trainees and fellows.
Email fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au to ensure you are on the mailing list.
Staff from the Flinders NT RTH will work with you one on one in conjunction with the health services to map out a training pathway. Email fnt.rth@flinders.edu.au us to organise an appointment with a suitable staff member.
The Flinders NT Regional Training Hub can support you in linking up with a suitable mentor.
The Regional Training Hubs use their collective bargaining power to advocate to the Specialist Colleges to promote and recognise the need for rural pathways. Your input into any survey we run is invaluable in collecting information to present to the Colleges. Like our Facebook page and follow our blog to stay up to date.
The Flinders NT RTH organises networking opportunities for stakeholders, local students and the medical workforce. This can include meetings of JMO’s, Specialist Colleges, Health Services and Training Organisations regarding rural pathways.
The Flinders NT RTH regularly advises of a broad range of opportunities to attend professional development events and conferences that enable you to network, update and broaden your knowledge of future training pathways. Events and funding supports will be advertised through our Mentoring page, Facebook page and our blog.
The Flinders NT RTH collaborates with NTGPE, NTPHN, Aboriginal medical services, health services, clinics and colleges to pilot projects that advance working in the NT.
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