Accreditation

Accreditation is the process in which an Intern Accreditation authority oversees the training programs that Prevocational Doctors (PDs) participate in to ensure that they continue to support effective training outcomes and promote safe patient care and junior doctor wellbeing. 

In Victoria, all Intern training programs and posts must be accredited by PMCV, and all PGY2 programs and posts must be reviewed by PMCV. This process involves concurrent Accreditation Survey Visits at least every four years as well as Accreditation progress reviews during the Accreditation period. 

PMCV enforces Accreditation Standards in healthcare, and if the required Accreditation Standards aren’t met, PMCV steps in to ensure that the relevant health services address the issue and implement change. 

The PMCV Accreditation Program aims to promote excellence in prevocational medical clinical training, appropriate education and learning experiences, effective supervision of and appropriate support for PDs, and quality and safety of patient care. 

Australian Medical Council Review of PMCV as an Intern Authority.

The purpose of the Australian Medical Council’s (AMC) accreditation is to recognise intern training programs that promote and protect the quality and safety of patient care and meet the needs of the interns and the health service as a whole. This is achieved through setting standards for intern training programs and recognising intern training accreditation authorities that assess programs against these standards.

Each intern training accreditation authority undergoes a reaccreditation assessment by an AMC team at least every eight years and the Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria (PMCV) is being reviewed in July 2023.

As part of this process of accreditation, the AMC invites stakeholders to provide feedback on the work of the accreditation authority. The PMCV has provided, to the AMC, an accreditation submission addressing the Intern training – Domains for assessing accreditation authorities which is available below:

Feedback can be provided to the AMC at prevac@amc.org.au by 7 July 2023.

The last accreditation report was completed by the AMC in November 2015 and PMCV has been approved as an intern training accreditation body.

You can access PMCV’s 2015 AMC Accreditation Report here.

Whilst we review all Prevocational Doctor (PD) posts on a regular schedule to ensure that health services are meeting accreditation standards for training, we encourage PDs to come forward with feedback at any time. This will allow us to act much more quickly and work together with PDs to create change within their health service. 

All questionnaire responses are dealt confidentially and anonymously. We recommend completing the questionnaire on a laptop or desktop computer (if you can) rather than on mobile.