AOGP Education Framework

AOGP requires Registrars to be active partners throughout their training program. AOGP will ensure Registrars have the maximum opportunity to become the General Practitioner they aspire to be. AOGP works to three key principles in the delivery of its training program: 

Principle 1: Customised

From the point of a Registrar’s acceptance into the AOGP training program, AOGP is focused on helping them design a customised Training Blueprint that they will work to complete over the course of their program. The blueprint design will recognise the skills, knowledge, attitudes and experience a Registrar brings with them into the program whilst simultaneously identifying the skills, knowledge, attitudes and experience they want and need to develop during the life of their program. 

This above work is achieved whilst also reconciling the Registrar’s Training Blueprint to the relevant College/s’ curriculum requirements and training standards, and the program guidelines presented by the Commonwealth, via GPET. 

Principle 2: Personalised

AOGP prides itself on being people-oriented. The team at AOGP works hard to ensure that it uses a variety of communication methods to suit individual Registrar needs. Streamlined systems and processes underpin this personal focus to allow for easy and transparent access to all training and education options specified in the Registrar’s Training Blueprint. This includes, wherever possible, access to family-friendly training arrangements.

Principle 3: Specialised

From the outset in 2002, AOGP was developed with a clear goal to create General Practitioners who are both specialists in primary care as well as a passionate and dynamic force in community-based medicine. Registrars will be trained with the aim of attaining a specialist qualification, either as an FRACGP and/or a FACRRM. 

These three key principles inform the manner in which AOGP delivers training to Registrars across the whole of its geographical area. 

The training and education program is further underpinned by the appropriate use of adult learning principles, including but not limited to:

• Registrar involvement in AOGP development and direction of learning activities
• AOGP provision of timely personalised review and feedback to assist accurate self-monitoring of Registrar progress
• AOGP encouragement of the Registrar in pursuing life-long learning through their involvement in a continuous learning framework as part of their training program