2017 MCCC Registrar Handbook

3.16 Subsidies and grants
3.16.1 Registrar Subsidies
MCCC provides its registrars with a number of subsidies that are designed to assist them to meet
their responsibilities and to complete their educational requirements in achieving professional
recognition. Details of the current registrar subsidies paid by MCCC are available in TR00?? Registrar
Subsidies.
3.16.1.1 Accountability of MCCC and of Registrars
MCCC and its registrars have a responsibility to ensure that funds provided by the taxpayer are used
responsibly and appropriately. To this end, MCCC has developed an approach to providing financial
and other support to our registrars based on the principles that:
Any subsidies provided should be consistent with and reinforce policies designed to encourage
registrars to live and train in our region and to seek employment in the region after completion of
training.
Within these policies, payment of subsidies should be as equitable as possible to registrars wherever
they might be living or be placed within the region.
The payment of subsidies should require a minimum of administrative processes.
Subsidies should only be paid for expenses incurred as a direct result of the registrar’s participation
in the AGPT Program.
Where expenditure can be incurred at the discretion of the registrar, MCCC may require a
contribution from the registrar.
3.16.2 Rural Procedural Grants Program
Both RACGP and ACRRM have been contracted by the Department of Health and Ageing to
administer the Rural Procedural Grants Program (RPGP). It provides funding to assist GP
proceduralists in rural and remote areas to maintain and upgrade their skills.
Please go to the following websites for further information.
• Rural Procedural Grants Program (RPGP) RACGP
• Rural Procedural Grants Program (RPGP) ACRRM
3.17 Overseas Trained Doctors (OTDs)
The term Overseas Trained Doctor (OTD) is interchangeable with International Medical Graduate
(IMG). The term OTD will be used for the remainder of this section and for better understanding of,
and in compliance with, the Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth).
For further information about 19AB Health Insurance Act and the 10 year moratorium, please go the
following link.
Fact Sheet - Section 19AB of the Health Insurance Act
3.18 Complaint procedure
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