The Canberra Region Medical Education Council (CRMEC) is established by the ACT Minister for Health, within the ACT Health Directorate, as a Ministerial Council providing strategic advice to the ACT on postgraduate medical education and training. The CRMEC is accredited by the Australian Medical Council as the accreditation authority for intern education and training programs in the ACT and its linked training network.

Postgraduate medical education refers to education for medical doctors who have already completed a medical degree.

Canberra Region Medical Education Council

Ministerial Council
Postgraduate Medical Council of the ACT

The role of the Ministerial Council

The CRMEC is responsible for accreditation of prevocational medical training programs in the ACT and the rural/regional training network for prevocational junior doctors employed in the ACT. The CRMEC is accredited by the Australian Medical Council to fulfil this role.

The CRMEC’s responsibilities include:

  • Accreditation functions, including monitoring, for the prevocational (PGY1 and PGY2) medical education and training programs within the ACT and its prevocational training network in the Southern NSW Local Health District

  • Expert advice to the Minister for Health regarding education and training for prevocational junior doctors, including issues influencing welfare, safety and cultural safety of prevocational doctors and that of patients in their care

  • Leadership in postgraduate medical education and training in the ACT and prevocational training network, including connecting key stakeholders to promote quality medical education in the region

  • Undertake the accreditation and monitoring of individual junior medical officer terms and the clinical units, facilities and networks that support them using national and jurisdictional standards, with a focus on:

    • Accreditation and monitoring of terms for prevocational junior medical officers

    • Developing training standards and accreditation processes for prevocational junior medical officers

    • Identify, evaluate, monitor and promote medical education and training programs for junior medical officers and their educators in conjunction with key stakeholders.

*Postgraduate refers to doctors who have completed a medical degree

Prevocational medical training accreditation

The CRMEC applies the National Standards and prevocational training program requirements as defined by the Australian Medical Council when accrediting health services.
The CRMEC’s accreditation policies are available under the Accreditation tab.

Prevocational Training Terms

The CRMEC maintains a register of accredited prevocational training terms and descriptions under the Term Descriptions tab.

  • Ministerial appointments to the Council
    Professor Nicholas Glasgow, Chair, CRMEC; Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

    Professor Amanda Barnard

    Jenny Berrill, Community representative

    Dr Ava Carter, Psychiatry registrar (ACT), Junior doctor representative

    Dr Cameron Maxwell, Anaesthetics Fellow, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

    Dr Carolyn Petersons, Deputy Director, Diabetes and Endocrinology, and Director of Diabetes, The Canberra Hospital

    Dr Kitiphume Thammasiraphop, Plastics Registrar (NSW), Junior doctor representative

    Dr Christopher Dickie, GP registrar, Junior doctor representative

    Ex-officio meeting attendees
    Intern representative – Dr Nesha Gezer

    RMO representative – Dr James Miller

    Medical Education Adviser – Associate Professor Katrina Anderson

  • CRMEC Terms of Reference

  • The CRMEC is supported by the Secretariat

    Professor Emily Haesler: Director, CRMEC
    Email: CRMEC.Manager@act.gov.au
    Phone: 02-512-42946

  • CRMEC’s Strategic Plan

Medical Training Survey

The Medical Training Survey (MTS) is conducted annually by the Medical Board of Australia and Ahpra. The survey results will strengthen the evidence base about the quality of medical training in Australia. The CRMEC supports this annual survey as a strategy to promote continuous quality improvement in doctor training. The MTS opens mid-year every training year.

Prevocational training resources for supervisors and junior doctors

The CRMEC contributes to the development of resources for junior doctors and their supervisors. The CRMEC Junior Doctor and Supervisor Resources website includes a range of information on the National Prevocational Medical Training Framework, supervision and education, wellbeing resources, career resources and more.