Guidelines & Processes

Please note that accreditation policies, guidelines and templates will be under review as we transition to the Australian Medical Council’s (AMC) National Framework for Prevocational Medical Training.

Accreditation Policy and Procedure outlines principles that underpin an open and transparent accreditation system.

Accreditation Conflict of Interest Policy and Procedure outlines a governance framework for identifying, managing and recording conflicts of interest.

Guidelines

Health Service Accreditation Guideline outlines the full facility accreditation process, including mid-cycle reporting and responding to conditions.

Guide to developing a term description can assist Local Health Networks (LHNs) and term supervisors in developing comprehensive information for their unit and the TMOs rostered (PDF 323 KB)

Accreditation internal review policy provides a framework to effectively facilitate the accreditation appeals process (PDF 180 KB)

Accreditation stakeholder consultation guideline gives a broad range of SA MET stakeholders the opportunity to contribute to accreditation policies and processes (PDF 53.0 KB)

Guideline to Accrediting Prevocational Terms provide guidance on the requirements for programs and terms and the characteristics for the clinical patient care categories (PDF)

Suggested Evidence Guideline for the AMC National Standards outlines example evidence health services could provide to demonstrate compliance against the National Standards (PDF)

Processes

New Unit Accreditation Process outlines the steps required to accredit a new term or unit within a health service already accredited as a prevocational training provider (PDF 142 KB)

Change of Circumstance process outlines the steps required to submit a notification for a change of circumstance for a accredited term or health service (PDF 169 KB)

Out of Session Request Process outlines the steps required to submit an out of session request whereby accreditation decisions are sought from Accreditation Committee members outside of the regular meetings (PDF 72.3 KB)

Process for responding to concerns describes how to deal with a concern raised about the education and training of Trainee Medical Officers (TMOs) in South Australia outside of the scheduled accreditation process (PDF 366 KB)

Templates

Accreditation Assessment Submission template for completion when a health service is applying for accreditation as a prevocational training provider (DOC 108KB)

Confidentiality agreement and conflict of interest declaration to be signed by accreditation surveyors and members of the Advisory Council and Accreditation Committee (PDF 45.2 KB)

Term description template used when creating or updating term descriptions (DOC 221KB)

Mid-Cycle Reporting Template used by prevocational training providers when providing an accreditation update mid-way through a four year accreditation cycle (DOC 71.0 KB)