2026 Basic Physician Trainee

Job Description
- 2026 Basic Physician Trainee - BPT 1

**Req ID**:3205

**Posting Start Date**:17/04/2025

**Work Location**:The RMH Parkville (City campus) & The RMH Royal Park

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Basic Physician Trainee Year 1 (BPT1 / PGY 3+)**

**12 Months Fixed Term, Full Time position commencing 2nd February 2026**

Basic Physician Training Year 1 (BPT1) PD

Reference Template for download

BPT Standardised CV Template for download

We are inviting Doctors to continue their training with Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2026. Our Basic Physicians Training Year 1 (BPT1) positions deliver an extensive array of education, support, training and professional development.

The Royal Melbourne is one of Victoria’s largest hospitals providing a comprehensive range of health services including acute, sub-acute, general, and specialist medical services throughout inpatient and community-based facilities. We are also a proud part of the world-renowned Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, working in collaboration to advance research for continuous improvement of clinical care.

**Your Opportunity**:
RMH can assist you in deciding on your future pathway and have a strong commitment to supporting you through all training requirements and exam preparation. The large number of rotations on offer will allow you to concentrate on your areas of interest while further developing as a junior doctor and honing your clinical skills.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is part of the Greater Western Basic Physician Training Consortium (GWC). The objectives of the GWC are to improve, and make more equitable, the standard of Basic Physician Training across all of its member health services.

Find out more about The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Find out more about Basic Physician Training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital

**_All positions will be by direct appointment, prior to the PMCV match._**

**About you**
- General Registration with the Medical Board of Australia - AHPRA by commencement (2nd February 2026).
- Commitment to becoming a physician
- Commitment to Royal Melbourne Hospital and its values at all times
- Highly intrinsically motivated and reflective
- Thoughtful and thorough clinician
- Holistic contributor to medicine, community and society
- Collaborative and values connection
- Strong leadership skills and willingness and ability to supervise and mentor Interns and Hospital Medical Officers

**Application Requirements**:
Please ensure you meet the key selection criteria and attach the following key documents.
- Cover Letter
- To be addressed to A/Prof Sam Hume
- **Curriculum Vitae**
- Please use the attached standardised BPT Curriculum Vitae template
- **Key areas of interest to the selection panel include**:

- Education and qualifications beyond core medical degree
- Previous employment
- Research presentations/publications - please be specific and annotate details. E.g., whether the project is published, in review, presented. If presented, please specify if this was a poster, oral and whether the meeting was international / national. Include DOI.
- Contributions to hospital, university, medical school
- Volunteer work (please be specific with time and contribution)
- **References**
- The applicant is responsible for ensuring the referee forms are received by RMH.

**Why RMH?**
- Allocated 2-week training course in preparation for the written exam
- Supervisors dedicated to your professional and educational development
- Structured tutorial programs prior to written and clinical exam
- Diverse patient mix lending to good exam preparation

**Interested?**

For more information about BPT 1 at RMH please contact: