Intern Year

Internship offers medical graduates the opportunity to consolidate the theoretical knowledge gained as a student and apply it in caring for patients. It is an opportunity to learn in a relatively protected environment, combining both service and training roles.

In Victoria an intern year consists of:

• the completion of at least 48 weeks of satisfactory, supervised clinical experience;
• a core term of at least ten weeks in medicine;
• a core term of at least ten weeks in surgery; and
• a core term of at least eight weeks in emergency medicine.

Other (non-core) rotations make up the balance of the intern year and provide opportunities to explore additional areas of medicine and surgery, anaesthesia, psychiatry, paediatrics and less acute care such as rehabilitation medicine, palliative care, geriatrics and general practice.

During the intern year, at least one rotation in a rural setting is expected. Rural rotations provide experience in a different institutional setting less oriented towards complex disease presentation and formal teaching. As an intern in a rural hospital or general practice there is opportunity to encounter a broad range of people and illnesses.

For more information on the intern year and for term descriptions download A Guide for Interns in Victoria.