• QRGP Application Requirements
• QRGP Intern Application Guide
• QRGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Intern Allocation Initiative Guide
• QRGP Intern Placement Preferencing and Ballot Guide
• QRGP Intern Special Consideration Guide
• QRGP Intern Joint Ticket Guide
• QRGP Intern Rollback Guide
• QRGP Intern Transfer Guide
• QRGP Intern Swapping Guide
• QRGP Decline and Withdrawal Guide

The dates provided below have been determined in accordance with the Queensland Health General Intern allocation period and are subject to change.

1. Final year medical students apply for a Rural Generalist Intern position via an open merit application and interview process conducted by the QRGP team in advance of Queensland Health’s general intern ballot.
2. Applicants successful at interview participate in the Rural Generalist Intern live preferencing process to list Rural Generalist Training Hospitals in order of preference. Where a hospital is oversubscribed at the close of live preferencing, a ballot ensues (refer Rural Generalist Intern Placement Preferencing and Balloting Guide).
3. Rural Generalist Trainees are notified of the outcome of the Rural Generalist Intern Ballot on the same day that all Queensland Group A general interns receive their offer.

• Rural Generalist Intern Placement Preferencing and Ballot Guide

We offer our interns opportunities at some of Queensland’s leading hospitals, including Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Redcliffe, Caboolture, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Redland and Mount Isa.

View the 2025 Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway Intern positions list here.

Learn more about each training hospital and what’s on offer via the Prevocational Training Hospital Guide.

Click the map marker to view the facility profile of the training hospitals.

The Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway provides support for doctors to attain Rural Generalist status in Queensland and our applicants go on to attain:

• Fellowship of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (FACRRM) including completion of advanced specialised training in Indigenous Health, Mental Health, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Adult Internal Medicine, Anaesthetics or Emergency Medicine; and/or
• Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP-RG) including completion of advanced specialised training in Indigenous Health, Mental Health, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Adult Internal Medicine, Anaesthetics or Emergency Medicine.

Both Fellowships allow Fellows to work unsupervised in general practice anywhere in Australia as they attain recognition as a general practitioner for Medicare purposes. The end of the Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway is just the beginning of a varied and fulfilling career; explore more about which option to choose on the ACRRM or RACGP websites.