AHPRA room
AHPRA medical licencing
Overview of AHPRA
Modules:
- History of the Medical Board of Australia
- The Purpose of the MBA
- About AHPRA and the National Boards
- What AHPRA does
- What it means to be registered
- AHPRA pathways for IMGs
- Initial AHPRA registration
AHPRA rules for Certification, Translations, English Language Test and Criminal History Check
Objective:
Provide team members with an understanding of the AHPRA rules.
Modules:
- Rules for Translating documents
- Rules for Certifying documents
- Rules for English Language Tests
- Rules for Criminal History Checks
Supervisors and Supervision Levels
Objective:
Provide practice team members with an understanding of AHPRA and College requirements for Supervision of IMGs and also Supervision Levels.
Modules:
- Explanation of AHPRA Supervision of IMGs
- Explanation of College Supervision of IMGs
- Explanation of Supervision Levels
- How to change Supervisions Levels via College and AHPRA
- Appointment of Supervisors
- Appointment of Temporary Co-supervisors
- How to make AHPRA changes
Support Options:
- Able Medico reviews drafts and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: practice team members
Post-Graduate Training / Supervised practice registration
Objective:
Provide practice team members knowledge of what Doctors are suitable for this registration and the College and AHPRA processes needed to secure.
Modules:
- Explanation of this registration
- Preparation of College application
- Securing College support
- Preparation of AHPRA application
- Preparation of supporting documents
- AHPRA process and timeframes
- Handling AHPRA queries
- Extension of Registration
Optional Support:
- Able Medico reviews drafts and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: team members
Limited Area of Need registration
Objective:
Provide practice team members knowledge of what Doctors are suitable for this registration and the College and AHPRA processes needed to secure.
Modules:
- Explanation of this registration
- Preparation of College application
- Securing College support
- Preparation of AHPRA application
- Preparation of supporting documents
- AHPRA process and timeframes
- Handling AHPRA queries
- Extension of Registration
Optional Support:
- Able Medico reviews drafts and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: team members
Provisional Competent Authority Pathway registration
Objective:
Provide practice team members knowledge of what Doctors are suitable for this registration and the College and AHPRA processes needed to secure.
Modules:
- Explanation of this registration
- Preparation of College application
- Securing College support
- Preparation of AHPRA application
- Preparation of supporting documents
- AHPRA process and timeframes
- Handling AHPRA queries
- Extension of Registration
Optional Support:
- Able Medico reviews drafts and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: team members
ORIG30 Orientation (mandatory)
Objective:
Provide practice team members with the knowledge to ensure the Doctor completes the mandatory AHPRA Orientation. Ensure practice team members know how the ORIG30 needs to be completed correctly and lodged on time.
Important:
Many practices do not have the time NOR the level of content to undertake the full ORIG30 Orientation required. We have available an ORIG30 course for Doctors which they can work through in their own time. The practice simply needs to cover "practice specific" induction topics.
Modules:
- Overview of the ORIG30 Orientation report
- Why all IMGs should undertake the ORIG30 Coaching course
- What elements of the ORIG30 do practices need to cover
- Completion of the ORIG30 report
- Lodgement of the ORIG30 report
Optional Support:
- Enrol the Doctor in the ORIG30 Coaching course*
- Able Medico reviews the completed ORIG30 and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: the practice team
ACCL30 Changes to registration
Objective:
Ensure practice team members know how the ACCL30 needs to be completed correctly and lodged on time. And what changes are processed with an ACCL30.
Modules:
- Overview of the ACCL30 form
- Changing AHPRA pathways
- Temporary Work Sites
- Changing Work Sites
- Change of Principal Practice
- Changing Supervisors
- Changing Supervision Level
- New position with a new employer
- New position with the same employer
- Limited AON registration impacts
- Other Changes
- Employer Sponsor
- Sponsor Contact
- The Checklist
- Lodgement
- Common rejection issues
Optional Support:
- Able Medico reviews the WRIG30 and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: practice team members
WRIG30 Performance
Objective:
Ensure practice team members know how the WRIG30 needs to be completed correctly and lodged on time.
Modules:
- Overview of the WRIG30 Performance Report
- Walkthrough of the sections and completion
- Changing supervision levels
- What supporting documents are needed for changes
- Lodgement of the WRIG30
- Common rejection issues
Optional Support:
- Able Medico reviews the WRIG30 and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: practice team members
SPPA30 Supervision Plan
Objective:
Ensure practice team members know how the SPPA30 needs to be completed correctly and lodged on time.
Modules:
- Overview of the SPPA30 Supervision Plan
- Walkthrough of the sections and completion
- Changing supervision levels
- What supporting documents are needed for changes
- Lodgement of the SPPA30
- Common rejection issues
Optional Support:
- Able Medico reviews the SPPA30 and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: practice team members
Annual AHPRA Renewal BEFORE Fellowship
Objective:
Ensure practice team members know which renewal form to use and how to complete correctly and lodge on time.
Modules:
- Encourage the Doctor to enrol in the Annual AHPRA Renewal BEFORE Fellowship support package*
- Which renewal form to use
- Walkthrough completion of the form
- Securing College support
- WRIG30 Performance report
- Impact of changes
- Timeframes for lodgement
- Lodging the renewal
- Checking Renewal Status
- Common rejection issues
- What if the Doctor does not lodge before the renewal date?
Optional Support:
- Enrol the Doctor in the AHPRA Renewal Coaching course*
- Able Medico reviews the completed renewal and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: the practice team
Annual AHPRA Renewal AFTER Fellowship
Objectives:
Renewal AFTER Fellowship is very easily undertaken by the Doctor. This module provides practice team members with knowledge of what the Doctor needs to undertake.
Modules:
- Walkthrough of the online AHPRA renewal process
- What if the Doctor fails to renew by the Due Date?
Optional Support:
Able Medico provides guidance as needed.
Lodging document in the AHPRA online portal
Objective:
Showing practice team members how to lodge documents online for AHPRA.
Modules:
- Walkthrough of lodging AHPRA documents online
- Securing confirmation of lodgement
Support Options:
- Able Medico reviews drafts and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: practice team members
Checking AHPRA registration status
Objective:
Show practice team members how to check AHPRA registration AND renewal status.
Modules:
- Walkthrough of checking Registration Status
- Walkthrough of checking Renewal Status
- Checking Medical Board outcomes
Support Options:
Able Medico provide guidance
Fellowship and AHPRA
Objective:
Provide practice teams with an understanding of AHPRA changes needed, timing and support documents on securing Fellowship.
Modules:
- Encourage the Doctor to enrol in the AHPRA Fellowship change support package*
- Securing College letter
- Preparation of AHPRA specialist registration
- Preparation of supporting documents
- Lodgement
- Timeframes
- Impact on Medicare
- Discussion about General Registration
Support Options:
- Able Medico reviews drafts and provides guidance
- Able Medico takes the lead role and cc: practice team members
General Registration
Objective:
Provide practice teams with an understanding of AHPRA changes needed, timing and support documents on securing General Registration.
Modules:
- Preparation of AHPRA general registration application
- Preparation of supporting documents
- Lodgement
- Timeframes
- Impact on Medicare
Optional Support:
- Able reviews all application forms and supporting documents
- Able Medico takes the lead role, drafts documents, lodgements and monitors
ADVICE: this should be regarded as an OPTIONAL registration for the Doctor. We offer a support package in the KnowMedical platform.
EXPEDITED PATHWAYS to AHPRA registration
Objective:
To explain the AHPRA Expedited Pathways for Registration.
Approved Specialties:
Only applies to GPs, Anesthetists and Obs/Gyno currently.
Able Medico is monitoring for our core specialties of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Pain, Opthalmology, Cardiology et al.
Working on it!
Managing AHPRA contacts
Objective:
Provide an understanding of how best to work with AHPRA.
Modules:
General guidance on building relationships and working with AHPRA
Optional Support:
Able Medico reviews AHPRA communications and interactions and provides guidance
Optional support AND for
When things go wrong!
Objective:
To ensure you are aware of optional support available from our team
Modules:
Support for all elements of AHPRA tasks.
Optional Support:
Support for when things go wrong! AHPRA is the most common area where things go awry. Forms change. Rules change. Case officers have differing opinions and interpretations.
We've experienced all, contact us as needed.
