All basic physician training in Victoria is provided through a consortia composed of metropolitan and rural hospitals.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is part of the Greater Western Basic Physician Training Consortium, which includes rotations across the organisation, as well as Western Health, Ballarat Health Services and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Successful applicants who are matched to the Royal Melbourne Hospital will be guaranteed at least two rotations at the RMH.

The Greater Western Basic Physician Training Consortium offers a comprehensive program with all rotations accredited by the RACP and is focussed on candidates preparing for the written and clinical RACP examinations.

Educational opportunities

As a teaching hospital, we have a commitment to education and learning. You will receive formal and informal educational opportunities including a weekly Professorial Report and Grand Round, public long cases (or journal club depending on the time of year), unit specific educational meetings, and audit and morbidity/mortality meetings.

For BPT2s and BPT3s, a structured written exam lecture series is delivered by specialist consultants and a cohesive clinical examination preparation is provided encompassing consultant led long and short case tutorials, bedside teaching, practice examinations and specialty sessions in neuro-ophthalmology, rheumatology, endocrinology and cardiology.

All trainees will receive end of term feedback on their performance.

Support and mentoring

BPTs will have educational supervisors and professional development advisors allocated as part of their enrolment in the RACP’s PREP program and will complete the specific tasks required through this program.

Various career development activities are conducted throughout the year including goals of care seminars, basic and advanced life support training, interview training and advanced training information sessions run by advanced trainees detailing how to maximise your chances of being selected into specialty training.

Salary and entitlements

All appointments for Doctors in Training at the RMH are covered by the Victorian Public Health Doctors in Training Enterprise Agreement 2022-26.

An enterprise agreement will include salary and leave entitlements.

Rotations (BPT2 and BPT3)

The following rotations are available at the RMH and affiliated hospitals for BPT2s and BPT3s:

  • Aged care registrar (the RMH Parkville)
  • Cardiology
  • Emergency medicine (optional)
  • Gastroenterology
  • General medicine registrar
  • Immunology and clinical genetics
  • Intensive care medicine registrar (BPT3 only)
  • Clinical haematology and bone marrow transplant
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology registrar (BPT3 only)
  • Respiratory medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Relieving (includes advanced trainee leave cover)

See Hospital Medical Officers for BPT 1 rotations.

Allocations are coordinated via a central process using a preference form system.

Rotation preferences

All successful applicants must complete a preference form where each rotation is numbered in order of preference. There is also an opportunity to write any details to support your preferences such as college requirements.

Please note that while we take preferences into account, there is no way to guarantee a specific rotation. Final allocations depend on how many people rank that rotation as their first preference and how many positions we have available each year.

Swapping rotations

We do our best to allocate rotations fairly across the three years of Basic Physician Training – however, not everyone will get their chosen rotations.

If you are assigned a rotation that you did not preference highly, you are able to swap your rotation with a colleague or swap into rotations as they become available during the year.

The Medical Workforce Unit will do their best to work with you in swapping rotations.

Affiliated hospitals

Selection and interview process

If you are shortlisted, we will send you an email with a link to book an interview via our online booking website.

Updating your application after submission

You may update your application after submitting it online as long as the position has not closed.

To do this, find the position you applied for on the RMH jobs portal, choose 'Apply' and start entering in your details again (as though you had never applied before).

The system will recognise you and automatically bring up all the details you had entered in your initial application.

You can then change any details or attachments.

You should receive another email acknowledgement after you resubmit your updated application

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Last updated 09 July 2025