Training Posts
Overview
Clinical training posts facilitate workplace hands on service
learning and exploration in a range of training environments providing
the opportunity for the trainee to develop, with supervision, the
requisite experience, knowledge, skills and attributes necessary to
become a competent independent specialist neurosurgeon. Each training
unit has its own profile for patient case mixes,
supervision, staffing levels, working requirements for trainees and
equipment. Each clinical training post has an allocated supervisor,
satisfying the
requirements in the Training Post Accreditation Regulations. Clinical
training posts are accredited in accordance with the Training Post
Accreditation Regulations available below.
Download the Training Post Accreditation Regulations here
Training Post Accreditation
The standards, terms and conditions for the assessment and accreditation
of training posts for the Training Program are outlined in the Training
Post Accreditation Regulations. Applications for processing in 2024 have now closed. The forms for applying for processing in 2025 will be available here in November 2024.
Trainee Assessment of Training Positions
The assessment of training posts by accredited trainees is a critical component of the training post review process. All trainees are required to complete the online training post evaluation form on a six monthly basis providing information regarding their experiences in their accredited training post. The training post evaluation forms are kept confidential and are not released to hospitals or supervisors.
Trainees will receive an email link to complete the forms twice a year.
Training Post Allocations
At the commencement of the SET Program, trainees will be allocated a Home Region where they will ordinarily spend most of their SET Program if there are available accredited training posts.
Trainees with a Home Region in Aotearoa New Zealand will undertake up to two full-time equivalent training years of their training in Australia and the remainder, including Advanced Training, in New Zealand training posts. All trainees will rotate through a minimum of three training units during their SET Program to ensure they receive a wide exposure to systems, supervisors and case mixes. Trainees will ordinarily spend no more than two full-time equivalent training years in any one training unit. Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the Board Chair, particularly where the trainee’s Home Region has less than three accredited training units.
The Board approves the allocation of trainees to accredited posts during all clinical training years. Trainees must be prepared to be assigned to a post anywhere in Australia and New Zealand
Trainees will be emailed a link to submit their post preferences for 2025 in the first quarter of the 2024 training year.
Download a list of hospitals with accredited training posts here