Although special skills may be undertaken at any stage of training, some posts are not suitable for Registrars who have not undertaken any GP terms. These include primary care based skin clinics and drug health services. Please contact your medical educator if you have any questions about the suitability of any planned special skills post before arranging any position.

A registrar may elect to do a period of training in an area of clinical interest (Special Skills). This experience can generally be obtained at any stage of training although many Registrars do their Special Skills terms directly after their year of Hospital training.

Thirty new Special Skills Posts funded by NSW Health, in specialist areas of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Anaesthetics, Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Mental Health became operational in rural areas of NSW in January 2004 and continue in Tamworth and Armidale in this region (not all available at both sites).

These posts are targeted towards the following 5 groups of doctors:
* Registrars enrolled in vocational General Practice training.
* Non-procedural rural GPs who intend to work in rural NSW
* Rural GPs who wish to re-train in a different procedural area or improve skills in an existing rural NSW area.
* Metropolitan based Registrars/vocationally registered General Practitoners proposing to take up rural Practice.
* Permanent Resident Overseas Trained Doctors filling Area of Need Positions with the written consent of their employer.

The aim of these posts is to provide specialist training to GPs or Registrars who are working in rural NSW areas already or who aim to work in a rural NSW area after their training. The training posts are flexible and allow part time options, to meet the needs of the Doctors who require the training.

The posts are accredited with the relevant colleges and training is consistent with the service needs of rural and remote communities.

GP Synergy is able to offer training in all 5 disciplines funded by the NSW Rural GP Procedural Training Program, as well as secondary supported posts after training when required.

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