2024 Medical Training Survey now open – keeping track of training

05 Aug 2024

The Medical Training Survey (MTS) is open now - giving trainees the chance to help improve medical training.

Now in its sixth year, the MTS is generating invaluable, longitudinal data that is being applied to improve medical training.

Each year, the Board reviews MTS questions, balancing the value of a consistent, longitudinal dataset with updates to questions that ensure the MTS tracks current and emerging issues in medical training.

MTS results are collated, published online and publicly accessible.

Past MTS results exposing fault lines in the culture of medicine are now being used across the health sector to drive improvements in medical training.

In 2024, a new question separates out sexual harassment from other forms of harassment – meeting stakeholder requests for more detail to help health services, educators and training providers address and eliminate this behaviour from medical workplaces over time.

More than half Australia’s doctors in training annually do the MTS, making it the most comprehensive national data source about medical training.

Stringent privacy controls make it safe and confidential for trainees to do the MTS, which is run by the Medical Board of Australia.

Medical Board of Australia Acting Chair, Dr Susan O’Dwyer, urged doctors in training to join more than half of their colleagues and do the MTS.

Case studies showing how the MTS results are being used to improve training are published on the MTS website.

Results from past surveys are available online at www.MedicalTrainingSurvey.gov.au. Results are detailed in reports by specialty and geography, or accessible via the online data-dashboard that enables users to create their own tailored reports.

All doctors in training in Australia can do the MTS. This includes interns, hospital medical officers, resident medical officers, non-accredited trainees, postgraduate trainees, principal house officers, registrars, specialist trainees and international medical graduates (with provisional or limited registration). Career medical officers who intend to undertake further postgraduate training in medicine can also participate.

There are five versions of the survey, tailored to different groups of trainees: interns, prevocational and unaccredited trainees, international medical graduates (with provisional or limited registration), specialist GP trainees and specialist non-GP trainees.

About the MTS

The MTS is a national, annual, profession-wide survey of all doctors in training in Australia. It is safe and confidential for doctors in training to take part.

The MTS is run by the Medical Board of Australia and Aphra and was developed collaboratively with doctors in training, specialist medical colleges, jurisdictions, postgraduate medical councils, Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, Australian Medical Council, Australian Medical Association, NSW Medical Council, Doctors' Health Services and other stakeholders.

For more information

• Visit https://medicaltrainingsurvey.gov.au/ for access to the MTS results and articles on how stakeholders are using the MTS results
• To contact the Medical Board of Australia, visit www.medicalboard.gov.au
• Make an online enquiry
• For registration enquiries: 1300 419 495 (within Australia) +61 3 9125 3010 (overseas callers)
• For media enquiries: (03) 8708 9200