Recruitment calendar

One timeline per state for the cycle running now; solid is a date from a live or archived campaign page, dashed is our projection from last year, and the dots are what r/ausjdocs reported. Each campaign opens for its dates, source and caveat. 12 campaign rows in all (10 confirmed). Subscribe (.ics).

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QLD 2027 intake cycle · 3 campaigns, 2 confirmed

QLD 2027 intake campaignsAprMayJunJulAugSepOctQueensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign (JHO/SHO/PHO/registrar) (2027 intake, expected)Queensland Health RMO a…Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign · applications open 2026-06-01 → 2026-06-29 (expected)Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign · offers 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-04 (expected)Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign · second round 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25 (expected)applications open — r/ausjdocs median of 1 hand-read report, n=5 comments 2026-06-01applications close — r/ausjdocs median of 1 hand-read report, n=3 comments 2026-06-29interview invites — r/ausjdocs median of 2 hand-read reports, n=12 comments 2026-07-04offers — r/ausjdocs median of 1 hand-read report, n=9 comments 2026-07-27second round — r/ausjdocs median of 1 hand-read report, n=2 comments 2026-09-04Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign — re-preference / round 2 (2027 intake, confirmed)Re-preference / round 2Re-preference / round 2 · applications open 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-07applications open — regex median of n=2 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-03-05applications close — regex median of n=2 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-06-27Queensland psychiatry (RANZCP) Feb 2027 intake (2027 intake, confirmed)Queensland psychiatry F…Queensland psychiatry Feb 2027 intake · applications open 2026-10-05 → 2026-10-19 (expected)applications close — regex median of n=2 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-06-27today 2026-09-13today
Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign, 2027 intake — expected, opens 1 June 2026, closes 29 June 2026

Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign (JHO/SHO/PHO/registrar) · Resident (PGY2), Senior resident (PGY3+), Unaccredited / service registrar, Accredited registrar

Opens
1 June 2026 past
Closes
29 June 2026 past
Interviews
not published
Offers
3 Aug 2026 past
Second round
4 Sept 2026 past
Status
expected

Applications 1 Jun 2026 09:00 - 29 Jun 2026 15:00 AEST (Wayback capture 20260612233218 of campaign-dates agrees). Referee reports due 30 Aug 2026; re-preference round 4-7 Sep 2026. Term dates JHO/SHO 18 Jan 2027-23 Jan 2028; Registrar/PHO 1 Feb 2027-6 Feb 2028. PATCH 2026-09-13: offers_from 2026-08-03 is community-sourced (9 reports) - the Reg/PHO offer round proper opened Monday 3 Aug 2026, with strays before it (an SHO offer ~27 Jul and a medical PHO offer 31 Jul). JHO/SHO offers are a separate later stage: the JHO/SHO recruitment period ran 9-25 Sep 2026, Gold Coast sending invites from 11 Sep (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1wbbhom/). Official campaign URL (retains opens/closes/second round): https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/medical-careers/resident-medical-officer-rmo-and-registrar-campaign - its campaign-dates page, fetched 2026-09-13, still publishes no offer dates for the 2027 clinical year. status downgraded to 'expected' and source_kind to 'community' only because the row now mixes official and community dates; open/close remain official.

reddit.com · retrieved 13 Sept 2026

What the sub reported hand-read, 6 rows; positive delta = later than published

EventStatedOfficialDeltanNote
applications open1 June 20261 June 20260 d5comment ↗
applications close29 June 202629 June 20260 d3comment ↗
interview invites4 July 2026—6PHO/registrar interview calls from early July; psychiatry reg/PHO interviews Brisbane from 22 Jul, 'you'll only receive an interview offer at this stage from your first preference'.comment ↗
offers27 July 2026—9First SHO offer reported ~27 Jul 2026 and a med PHO offer 31 Jul; the Reg/PHO offer round proper opened 3 Aug 2026.comment ↗
second round4 Sept 20264 Sept 20260 d2Campaign vacancy update circulated to applicants on 4 Sep 2026 listing 34 remaining General Surgery PHO positions (~33.5 FTE) across eight health services.comment ↗
interview invites9 Sept 2026—6JHO/SHO recruitment period 9–25 Sep 2026; Gold Coast began sending invites 11 Sep; most applicants still had nothing by 12 Sep.comment ↗

Incidents

  • Applicants received an email from a Queensland hospital in early July 2027-cycle reading 'we would like to place you after nominate as first preference' — widely received, and the thread's conclusion was that it was an administrative error sent before candidates had been released to hospitals. (7 July 2026) comment ↗
Re-preference / round 2, 2027 intake second round — confirmed, opens 4 Sept 2026, closes 7 Sept 2026

Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaign — re-preference / round 2 · Resident (PGY2), Senior resident (PGY3+), Unaccredited / service registrar, Accredited registrar

Opens
4 Sept 2026 past
Closes
7 Sept 2026 past
Interviews
not published
Offers
not published
Second round
not published
Status
confirmed

Candidate re-preference round 4–7 Sep 2026 (unsuccessful PHO/registrar applicants can re-preference to JHO/SHO/PHO/registrar); second-round offers after.

careers.health.qld.gov.au · retrieved 12 Sept 2026

Queensland psychiatry Feb 2027 intake, 2027 intake early — confirmed, closes 19 Oct 2026

Queensland psychiatry (RANZCP) Feb 2027 intake · Accredited registrar

Opens
not published
Closes
19 Oct 2026
Interviews
not published
Offers
not published
Second round
not published
Status
confirmed

Report: 'QLD late Aug–19 Oct 2026 (Feb 2027)'. Opens 'late Aug' (month only, so opens_at null).

ranzcp.org · retrieved 12 Sept 2026

How the QLD cycle actually works, in 7 mechanics from r/ausjdocs (not policy)
One application, ranked preferences lore 8 authors
A single Queensland Health RMO & Registrar Campaign application nominating level (JHO / SHO / PHO / registrar) and up to five facility/specialty preferences. HoDs receive bundles containing all five preferences; competitive departments fill from first preferences only, so ranking a job second is functionally not applying for it. Multiple offers are possible but only one can be accepted; for some pathways declining the first offer removes you from the pool entirely.
comment ↗ 2 ↗
CV template, no cover letter field lore 5 authors
The campaign supplies its own CV format and a career-goals statement; there is no cover-letter slot (you can staple one to the CV). Senior staff report not reading cover letters at all and going straight to the CV and the target-question answers.
comment ↗
Referee trap — emails fire on Save lore 6 authors
The online application emails your referees the moment you click Save on the referee page, not when you submit. Editing that page afterwards deletes any reports already received and re-sends the requests, so a referee who has already filled it in has to do it again. Referee reports for registrar candidates are due roughly a week after applications close, not at submission.
comment ↗ 2 ↗
Interviews are the exception lore 7 authors
Many health services make offers with no interview at all, including RBWH for rotational RMO; competitive PHO/registrar jobs do interview, generally only from the first preference. Not being interviewed is not a rejection signal.
comment ↗ 2 ↗
Two-stage offer sequence lore 9 authors
Registrar/PHO offers run first (late July–August); JHO/SHO offers only start once the PHO/registrar round is finished, because unsuccessful PHO applicants fall back into the RMO pool. A generic 're-confirm your preferences' email goes to everyone between the two rounds — it is not a signal about your application.
comment ↗ 2 ↗
Re-preference rounds and vacancy lists lore 7 authors
Unsuccessful applicants are emailed a list of the remaining vacancies and invited to re-preference; this happens more than once, with a further round in mid/late October naming everyone 'yet to obtain a position'. The community treats this as the real safety net.
comment ↗ 2 ↗
Outside the campaign lore 9 authors
Queensland is the jurisdiction where cold-calling still works: EDs are chronically short, private hospitals (Greenslopes, Wesley, Mater) and QEII hire directly, and people who miss the deadline entirely report walking into SHO jobs by phone or email.
comment ↗ 2 ↗
Show earlier intakes and other reports: 9 campaign rows and 10 report rows
IntakeCampaignRoundOpensClosesInterviewsOffersSecond roundStatusSourceCaveat
2028Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaignmain7 June 20275 July 2027———expectedcareers.health.qld.gov.auBased on 6 previous years (2021–2026). history-backfill report rule: 'first Monday of June, 9am AEST; closes exactly four weeks later, 3pm AEST' → Mon 7 Jun / Mon 5 Jul 2027. Note 2021 opened Mon 31 May and recruitment-cycles.md says 'opens 1st business day of June' (Tue 1 Jun 2027) — verify when QLD publishes.
2026Queensland Health Rural Generalist AST PHO roundearly14 Apr 202528 Apr 2025———confirmedwayback'Rural AST PHO runs ~2 months earlier (14 Apr → 28 Apr 2025).'
2026Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaignmain2 June 202530 June 20257 July 202528 July 202529 Aug 2025confirmedwaybackOpen Mon 2 Jun 2025 9am AEST; close Mon 30 Jun 2025 3pm AEST. Round 1: referee reports 'Sunday 6 July'; interviews 'Monday 7 July to Friday 25 July'; offers 'Monday 28 July to Wednesday 27 August'; re-preference '9 am Friday 29 August to 5 pm Monday 1 September'. No single match day — facilities make rolling offers.
2026Round 2second round29 Aug 20251 Sept 20253 Sept 202522 Sept 2025—confirmedwaybackRe-preference window 9am Fri 29 Aug – 5pm Mon 1 Sep 2025; Round 2 interviews 'Wednesday 3 Sept to Friday 19 Sept'; offers 'Monday 22 Sept to Wednesday 15 October'.
2026Round 3 open roundlate vacancy27 Oct 2025——10 Nov 2025—confirmedwaybackRound 3 open round 'Monday 27 October'; offers 'From Monday 10 November onwards'.
2025Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaignmain3 June 20241 July 2024———confirmedwaybackApplications open Mon 2024-06-03 9am AEST; close Mon 2024-07-01 3pm AEST.
2024Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaignmain5 June 20233 July 2023———confirmedwaybackApplications open Mon 2023-06-05 9am AEST; close Mon 2023-07-03 3pm AEST. Page carried a QLD Health typo: Round 3 dated 'Thursday 28 October 2022' (should read 2023).
2023Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaignmain6 June 20224 July 2022———confirmedwaybackApplications open Mon 2022-06-06 9am AEST; close Mon 2022-07-04 3pm AEST. Capture predates the careers.health.qld.gov.au site; the report elides the old path as 'health…/recruitment/rmo/campaigns' — URL reconstructed from the source index, timestamp is authoritative.
2022Queensland Health RMO and Registrar campaignmain31 May 202128 June 2021———confirmedwaybackApplications open Mon 2021-05-31 9am AEST; close Mon 2021-06-28 3pm AEST. Capture predates the careers.health.qld.gov.au site; the report elides the old path as 'health…/recruitment/rmo/campaigns' — URL reconstructed from the source index, timestamp is authoritative.

2026 intake 9 report rows

EventStatedOfficialDeltanNote
applications open2 June 20252 June 20250 d4comment ↗
applications close4 July 2025—3Referee-report completion deadline (not the application deadline): registrar-candidate referee reports were due Friday 4 Jul 2025, five days after applications closed on 30 Jun.comment ↗
interview invites7 July 20257 July 20250 d8Published facility interview window 7–25 Jul 2025; competitive non-rotational SHO calls began ~20 Jul; BPT shortlisting email 18 Jul.comment ↗
offersposted 3 Aug 202528 July 20255PHO/registrar offers reported rolling out from late July / early August 2025; no exact date given in the thread.comment ↗
offers27 Aug 202528 July 2025+30 d4QARTS (Queensland anaesthetics rotational training scheme) offers: the campaign info page said offers start Tuesday 26 Aug 2025; the first emails actually landed 27 Aug.comment ↗
second round29 Aug 202529 Aug 20250 d6Generic 're-preference' email to all applicants on 29 Aug 2025, exactly the official second-round date.comment ↗
offers3 Sept 2025—7JHO/SHO offers: RBWH phoned 3 Sep 2025 with no interview; PAH ~20 Sep; SCUH rejections and waitlists from early October.comment ↗
offers22 Sept 202522 Sept 20250 d4Applicants citing the campaign dates page: 'offers will be from 22 of this month' — matches the official second-round offer date.comment ↗
late vacancies17 Oct 202527 Oct 2025-10 d3Second re-preference email with the remaining-vacancy list: 'our system indicates that you are yet to obtain a position for the 2026 clinical year'.comment ↗

2025 intake 1 report row

EventStatedOfficialDeltanNote
second round30 Aug 2024—3Reg/PHO re-preferencing reported as opening 'on Friday' 30 Aug 2024; campaigns.json has no second-round row for CY2025.comment ↗

Dots are the median stated date of the hand-read reports the encoders matched to that campaign, weighted by how many comments said so; where none were matched, the median posting date of comments saying a campaign for that state opened, closed, interviewed or offered in the same calendar year — a sanity check on the official date, not a date. Dates drift a week or two each year.

When ads actually closed

Closing months of 38 closed PGY2+ listings since 2023, by employer and specialty

"Usually closes" is the modal month and its share; under three ads and we don't call it. An ad re-advertised three times counts three times. Outside NSW the record starts when we began scraping each portal.

EmployerStateSpecialtyClosed adsUsually closesJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Queensland HealthQLD(no specialty in title)9 (2026, 2027)Jan 44% of closes441
Queensland HealthQLDGeneral surgery5 (2026)Sep 60% of closes32
Queensland HealthQLDEmergency medicine5 (2026, 2027)Jan 40% of closes2111
Queensland HealthQLDPhysician training (BPT / general medicine)4 (2026, 2027)Mar 25% of closes1111
Queensland HealthQLDIntensive care3 (2026)Sep 67% of closes21
Queensland HealthQLDPsychiatry3 (2026, 2027, 2030)Jan 33% of closes111
Queensland HealthQLDObstetrics & gynaecology2 (2026)too few to say2
Mater (Queensland)QLDPaediatrics1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDCardiothoracic surgery1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDGeriatric medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDRehabilitation medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDAnaesthetics1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDRenal medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDRadiology1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDCardiology1 (2026)too few to say1
Queensland HealthQLDPaediatrics1 (2026)too few to say1