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The General Practice Education and Training (GPET) project implements the recommendations of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Health Training Framework with the key desired outcomes to:

• Facilitate the recruitment of ACCHSs as Registered Training Posts (RTPs).
• Support ACCHSs to engage further in ATSI Health Training.
• Encourage ACCHSs and RTPs to enhance the involvement of AHCCHs in the governance of General Practitioner (GP) training in their local area.

GPET is focusing on:

• Promoting GPET to the wider population including ACCHSs in regional areas.
• Building stronger linkages with agencies to support the recruitment of GP Registrars.
• Annual GPET conventions.
• Meetings with key stakeholders around GP recruitment and services.
• Statewide generic Orientation Manual for GPs.
• Cultural tools to use when providing education and support packages to GPs.
• Linkages with agencies such as Adelaide to Outback (A2O) GP Training Office and Sturt Fleurieu GPET Program, University of South Australia’s Indigenous Unit (School of Medicine), University of Adelaide’s Indigenous Unit (School of Medicine), the Flinders and Far Northern Division of General Practice, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, Pika Wiya Health Service Inc., Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc., Rural Doctors Workforce Agency (RDWA), and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).
• Building the ACCHSs to become Indigenous Training Posts (ITPs). GPET has worked in close partnership with Nunkuwarrin Yunti (Adelaide) and Pika Wiya (Port Augusta) to maintain their status as an ITP. All ACCHSs in South Australia can apply to become an ITP.

For further information email Ann Newchurch