The AMC is pleased to announce that Health Ministers have endorsed the model standards and procedures for specialist medical college accreditation of training settings. This is a key deliverable of the joint project with specialist medical colleges and jurisdictions to implement the recommendations from the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman report / Ministerial policy direction – Medical college accreditation of training sites
The model standards set out the standards and criteria by which colleges will assess training settings ensuring consistency and alignment with training program outcomes. The model procedures will help improve consistency across colleges by standardising processes and terminology. The standards and procedures are available on the AMC website.
The Ministerial policy direction and the report recommendations are aimed at improving communication between stakeholders and achieving greater consistency of accreditation processes, policies, and decisions across the colleges. The joint project covers 15 of the 23 report recommendations, with the remaining eight recommendations to be addressed by the individual colleges.
Planning is well underway to implement the standards with the first colleges due to go live with the model standards in January 2026, and all colleges to have implemented the key elements of the model procedures by February 2026.
The AMC thanks the Miller Blue Group Consultancy for their contribution to this project.
Further information about the joint project, as well as the model standards and procedures, is available on the AMC website.
