The revised South Australian Medical Education and Training (SA MET) Accreditation Standards will take effect on 1 January, 2015.
 
The Standards have been developed from the 2010 SA IMET Accreditation Standards and have been mapped to the Australian Medical Council’s (AMC’s) National Standards for Intern Training published in 2013. While maintaining the ethos of the previous Accreditation Standards, the revised version is significantly different in structure and content.
 
Initial targeted consultation occurred from 9 December, 2013 until 10 January, 2014. The SA MET Unit consulted with a wide range of stakeholders, both locally and nationally, including the SA Board of the Medical Board of Australia and the SA Health Local Health Networks. The SA MET Accreditation Standards were amended based on stakeholder feedback.
 
On 27 May, 2014 the SA MET Health Advisory Council endorsed the revised SA MET Accreditation Standards to take effect on 1 January, 2015. Subsequently, the SA MET Accreditation Standards were endorsed by the Minister for Health on 23 July, 2014 and the AMC on 2 September, 2014.
 
These standards provide a framework for the education and training of prevocational trainee medical officers in South Australia. By meeting these standards, Local Health Networks demonstrate they provide safe and effective education programs for their trainee medical officers. The accreditation process will use evidence to test the extent to which health services meet these standards through document analysis, surveys and visits to the Local Health Networks.
 
The revised SA MET Accreditation Standards comprise the following:

• Standard 1: Governance and Program Management
• Standard 2: Monitoring, Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
• Standards 3: Education, Training and Clinical Experience
• Standard 4: Supervision
• Standard 5: Assessment
• Standard 6: Trainee Medical Officer Welfare

The revised SA MET Accreditation Standards are available on the SA MET website.

Intern and PGY2+ (RMO) Update
Interns
All category 1.1, 1.2 and 2.1 applicants have been offered a position. Offers have commenced to category 2.2 applicants and further offers will be made to this group if positions become available.

Offers will be made by email and applicants have 48 hours to accept or decline an offer. An offer will be automatically declined if a response is not received by the stated date and time. You can check the status of your application at any time by logging into your application.

For applicants who have been offered an internship in South Australia, it is anticipated that allocation to home hospitals will occur towards the end of September.

PGY2+ (RMO)
Training Program coordinators have access to applicants’ details and are in the process of shortlisting and ranking. Contact relevant program coordinators for details on selection criteria and interviews.

First round offers occur Friday 12 September 2014. Applicants have 48 hours to respond to their offer. An offer will automatically be declined if a response is not received by the stated date and time.

There are often more applicants than training positions available leaving a pool of unmatched applicants after the allocation process is complete. A complete list of unmatched candidates will be provided to the hospitals, to fill any vacancies that arise. Positions will be offered based on merit and training program requirements. Applicants will only receive one offer and if a position is declined they will be removed from the unmatched list.