The IRTP program

The Integrated Rural Training Pipeline (IRTP) is a subset of the Commonwealth-funded Specialist Training Program, and provides 100 positions from 2022-2025 across all specialist medical colleges. ANZCA receives funding to support up to eight fulltime equivalent positions under the program.

Twenty-six regional training hubs have been established under the IRTP to work with local health services to help stream students through the medical training pipeline.

Each IRTP post is designed to support one trainee over several years. The funding enables a specialist trainee to complete at least two thirds of their fellowship training in a rural or regional setting, with only limited metropolitan rotations.

The IRTP-STP funding contributes to salary support of the trainee, rural loading, private infrastructure and clinical support.