About GPET

General Practice Education and Training Limited (GPET) manages the Australian General Practice Training Program (AGPT) on behalf of the Australian Government. GPET Ltd is an independent company established in 2001 by the Minister for Health and Ageing to fund and oversee vocational general practice training throughout Australia. It contracts with 21 regional training providers (RTPs), which deliver general practice vocational training to about 2,600 GP registrars.

GPET and the regional training providers work closely with key stakeholders in delivering vocational training for general pracitce - including the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), universities, divisions of general pracitce, rural workforce agencies and GP student, registrar and supervisor organisations. 

GPET's national objectives include the delivery of high quality vocational training; the integration of general practice education from medical school through to continuing education; education innovation; a framework to improve indigenous health training and services; enhanced rural and remote training; and promotion of general practice as a career.