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. 11 campaign rows in all (8 confirmed). Subscribe (.ics).

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VIC 2027 intake cycle · 3 campaigns, 3 confirmed

VIC 2027 intake campaignsMayJunJulAugSepPMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Match (2026 match) (2027 intake, confirmed)PMCV First Year Psychia…PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Match · applications open 2026-04-21 → 2026-05-18PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Match · interviews 2026-05-19 → 2026-07-30PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Match · offers 2026-07-30 → 2026-08-13 (expected)applications open — regex median of n=2 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-07-10applications close — regex median of n=8 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-06-14interviews — regex median of n=37 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-07-02offers — regex median of n=24 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-07-22PMCV BPT1 Match (2026 match, Basic Physician Training year 1) (2027 intake, confirmed)PMCV BPT1 MatchPMCV BPT1 Match · applications open 2026-06-01 → 2026-06-28PMCV BPT1 Match · interviews 2026-06-29 → 2026-07-22PMCV BPT1 Match · offers 2026-07-22 → 2026-08-05 (expected)applications open — regex median of n=2 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-07-10applications close — regex median of n=8 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-06-14interviews — regex median of n=37 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-07-02offers — regex median of n=24 r/ausjdocs comments that year (no campaign tag) 2026-07-22PMCV PGY2 Match (HMO2 / RG2 / BPT1-2) (2027 intake, confirmed)PMCV PGY2 MatchPMCV PGY2 Match · applications open 2026-07-27 → 2026-08-21PMCV PGY2 Match · interviews 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-23PMCV PGY2 Match · offers 2026-09-23 → 2026-10-07 (expected)applications close — r/ausjdocs median of 1 hand-read report, n=4 comments 2026-06-28interview invites — r/ausjdocs median of 3 hand-read reports, n=38 comments 2026-06-29results — r/ausjdocs median of 2 hand-read reports, n=14 comments 2026-07-22offers — r/ausjdocs median of 2 hand-read reports, n=13 comments 2026-08-14today 2026-09-13today
PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Match, 2027 intake — confirmed, opens 21 Apr 2026, closes 18 May 2026

PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Match (2026 match) · Accredited registrar

Opens
21 Apr 2026 past
Closes
18 May 2026 past
Interviews
19 May 2026 past
Offers
30 July 2026 past
Second round
not published
Status
confirmed

Official page (fetched 2026-09-13): applications open 21 April, close 18 May (5:00pm AEST), 'Video Interviews: 19 May to 21 May', 'Health Service Assessment Period: 11 June to 22 July', 'Match Results Published: 30 July'; training commences 2027; accept/decline deadline 3 Aug 2026 10:00 AEST (48 h). Community confirms results on 30 Jul 2026, with PGY5s holding three years of unaccredited Victorian psych experience unmatched and interstate applicants with verbal agreements getting no interview (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1vae0tl/).

pmcv.com.au · retrieved 13 Sept 2026

PMCV BPT1 Match, 2027 intake — confirmed, opens 1 June 2026, closes 28 June 2026

PMCV BPT1 Match (2026 match, Basic Physician Training year 1) · Accredited registrar

Opens
1 June 2026 past
Closes
28 June 2026 past
Interviews
29 June 2026 past
Offers
22 July 2026 past
Second round
not published
Status
confirmed

Official page (fetched 2026-09-13): applications open 1 June 2026, close 28 June 2026, 'Health Service Assessment Period: 29 June to 16 July 2026', 'Results Published: 22 July 2026'. interviews_from is the published assessment-period start; in practice health services interviewed 16 Jun - 15 Jul 2026, some before the closing date, and Eastern reported 80 interviews for 30 spots (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1u53pcv/). Results published 10:00 on 22 Jul 2026 with a 24 h accept window on the PMCV dashboard (community; corroborated independently at https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1v2zxa2/). One week earlier, on 15 Jul 2026, PMCV emailed candidates that preference data had been lost and asked them to resupply preferences.

pmcv.com.au · retrieved 13 Sept 2026

PMCV PGY2 Match, 2027 intake — confirmed, opens 27 July 2026, closes 21 Aug 2026

PMCV PGY2 Match (HMO2 / RG2 / BPT1-2) · Resident (PGY2)

Opens
27 July 2026 past
Closes
21 Aug 2026 past
Interviews
24 Aug 2026 past
Offers
23 Sept 2026
Second round
not published
Status
confirmed

Health-service assessment from 24 Aug; results 23 Sep 2026; 48 h to accept. Pre-match (internal) offers to current interns close before the match opens. No PMCV second round: health services fill unmatched positions ad hoc. Clinical year starts 1 Feb 2027.

pmcv.com.au · retrieved 12 Sept 2026

What the sub reported hand-read, 8 rows; positive delta = later than published

EventStatedOfficialDeltanNote
interview invites11 June 202614Direct anaesthetics/critical-care SRMO interviews: RMH 11 Jun, St Vincent's 12 Jun, Barwon 15 Jun, Mercy 15 Jun, Northern 15 Jun, Eastern 17 Jun, Monash anaesthetics 18 Jun, Western 19 Jun, Alfred anaesthetics 19 Jun (email at 22:30), Austin ICU 23 Jun.comment ↗
applications close28 June 20264BPT1 / PMCV referee deadline 5pm 28 Jun 2026; no 'submit' button — the portal state at the deadline is the application.comment ↗
interview invites29 June 202616BPT1 interview invites: Northern internal mid-Jun, St Vincent's/Eastern/Northern externals 29–30 Jun, Western 1 Jul, Alfred and Frankston ~2–3 Jul, Austin/Peninsula/Western reported ~29 Jun, all concluded by 15 Jul. Some interviews issued before the 28 Jun closing date.comment ↗
offers30 June 20266Direct critical-care SRMO outcomes: RMH, St Vincent's, Western, Northern notified on the day of interview or within days; Austin and Eastern by 1 Jul.comment ↗
results22 July 20268PMCV BPT1 match results released 10:00 Wednesday 22 Jul 2026; accept window on the portal reported as 24 h (several applicants believed 48 h and found it closed).comment ↗
results30 July 20266PMCV psychiatry match results 30 Jul 2026; PGY5 candidates with 3 years of unaccredited Victorian experience unmatched.comment ↗
offers14 Aug 20267RCH Victorian paediatric (JRMO / basic paediatric training) offers staggered 14–17 Aug 2026, rural stream offered on 10 Aug ahead of the announced window; unsuccessful notifications deliberately delayed because of movement as other states release.comment ↗
interview invites28 Aug 202624 Aug 2026+4 d8PGY2 match interviews: assessment started week of 24 Aug, Alfred offers Friday 28 Aug, Western phoning 1 Sep, Eastern 11 Sep; Monash again not interviewing (referee reports only).comment ↗

Incidents

  • PMCV preference data loss: on 15 Jul 2026, BPT1 applicants received an email saying preferences had been affected by 'technical issues'. Applicants found sites missing from their preference lists (Bayside Peninsula removed) and PMCV asked candidates to reply with their preferences because 'they've lost everything' — one week before the match ran. (15 July 2026) comment ↗
How the VIC cycle actually works, in 6 mechanics from r/ausjdocs (not policy)
Two applications, not one lore 5 authors
The PMCV match is necessary but not sufficient: candidates must register and preference in the PMCV Allocation & Placement Service AND submit a separate application to each health service's own careers portal. Health services only see, shortlist and interview applicants who lodged the direct application; several people who were 'unmatched' had only done the PMCV half.
Referees lore 5 authors
PMCV referee reports are online forms sent to nominated referees with a hard deadline (BPT1 2026 cycle: 5pm on the application closing date). Community reading is that an application cannot proceed until all nominated referee reports are complete; there is no 'submit' button on the PMCV side, the portal state at the deadline is the submission. Non-match applications use a downloadable PMCV referee form the applicant uploads, which means you can read what your referee wrote.
Interviews are optional and hospital-specific lore 9 authors
Interviewing is entirely at the health service's discretion and varies year to year. Monash did not interview for PGY2 in 2025 or 2026 (selection on CV, cover letter and referee reports); Eastern Health did not interview internal or external PGY2 candidates in 2025 but did in 2026. Invitations arrive by email, text or phone call, sometimes rolling over two weeks.
Pre-match / internal hiring lore 6 authors
Health services fill most places from internal candidates before the match opens; external applicants compete for a small residue. Reported ratios: Eastern Health 80 BPT1 interviews for 30 spots; a psychiatry service with '5 spots' having pre-selected 4 internals.
Accepting lore 4 authors
Match results land on the PMCV dashboard at 10:00 on the published day; the accept window is short (reported as 24 h, with applicants believing it was 48 h) and the health service will also email you separately. Non-match PGY3+ offers are direct from the hospital.
PGY3+ is outside the match entirely lore 8 authors
HMO3/critical-care/anaesthetics/ED/surgical SRMO streams are recruited directly by each health service, with their own closing dates from April to early June and interviews in June — months before the PGY2 match opens.
Show earlier intakes and other reports: 8 campaign rows and 11 report rows
IntakeCampaignRoundOpensClosesInterviewsOffersSecond roundStatusSourceCaveat
2028PMCV PGY2 Matchmainexpectedpmcv.com.auBased on 4 previous years (2023–2026 matches); recruitment-cycles.md pattern: pre-match closes ~1st week Aug; match opens ~1st Mon Aug (2026 opened 27 Jul); closes ~3rd–4th week Aug; results ~4th week Sep. PMCV renames the page slug every year.
2026PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Matchmain29 Apr 202526 May 202527 May 20257 Aug 2025confirmedpmcv.com.auOfficial page (fetched 2026-09-13): applications open 29 April, close 26 May, 'Video Interviews: 27 May to 29 May', 'Health Service Assessment and Selection: 23 July to 30 July', 'Results Published: 7 August'; training commences 2026. Community reports results landing 6-7 Aug 2025 (delta 0-1 d) and a Mercy interviewer quoting 270 applicants for 114 statewide places, 90+ to Mercy alone (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1mjt565/).
2026PMCV BPT1 Matchmain9 June 202527 June 202530 June 202530 July 2025confirmedpmcv.com.auOfficial page (fetched 2026-09-13): 'Match Applications Open: 9 June 2025', 'Match Applications Close: 27 June 2025', 'Results Published: 30 July 2025', 'Accept Allocation Close: 1 August 2025'. interviews_from is community-sourced (health-service BPT1 interviews ran 30 Jun - 15 Jul 2025: Northern and Peninsula 30 Jun, Alfred 1 Jul, Eastern ~8 Jul, Ballarat/Western 15 Jul, Barwon 14 Jul; https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1llmku0/), not published by PMCV. Incident on results day: results went up at 10:00, a correction email landed 14:49 and the match was re-run and re-released at 16:00; candidates moved matched-to-unmatched and up/down their preference lists (30 authors, https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1mcydz3/). PMCV runs no second round.
2026PMCV PGY2 Matchmain4 Aug 202522 Aug 202524 Sept 2025confirmedwaybackResults 24 Sep 2025; accept by 26 Sep. recruitment-cycles.md adds: pre-match offers close 1 Aug; preference lock 16 Sep; acceptance 24–26 Sep 2025.
2025PMCV First Year Psychiatry Training Matchmain13 June 202420 Aug 2024expectedreddit.comCommunity only: match results out 20 Aug 2024 'after a few false starts' (12 reports, https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1eworv6/); RMH interview offers from ~13 Jun 2024 with Western and Northern rejections 18 Jun (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1dhpqje/). No PMCV page for the 2024 psychiatry match survives - https://www.pmcv.com.au/2024-first-year-psychiatry-training-match/ now serves the 2025 match content (checked 2026-09-13). Opens/closes unknown; do not publish as official.
2025PMCV Radiology Registrar Matchmain1 July 2024expectedreddit.comCommunity only: 'PMCV radiology match results out 1 Jul 2024' (4 reports, https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1dssj9e/). Structural note: https://www.pmcv.com.au/2024-radiology-registrar-match/ now 301-redirects to https://www.ranzcr.com/join-our-professions/clinical-radiology/training-programs/victorian-registrar-recruitment (checked 2026-09-13) - from the 2025 intake RANZCR, not PMCV, runs Victorian clinical radiology registrar recruitment, so this is the last PMCV radiology match and a RANZCR-run successor campaign is missing from the seed entirely. The RANZCR page returns 403 to automated fetches; dates must be captured by browser.
2025PMCV PGY2 Matchmain12 Aug 202430 Aug 202425 Sept 2024confirmedwaybackResults 25 Sep 2024; accept by 27 Sep 2024 (48 h rule). Assessment dates not on page; preference deadline in PDF only (unextracted).
2024PMCV HMO2/RG2/BPT1&2 Matchmain24 July 202311 Aug 202314 Aug 202315 Sept 2023confirmedwaybackApplications open 24 Jul 2023 10am, close 11 Aug 2023 5pm; assessment from 14 Aug; preference deadline 4 Sep 5pm; results 15 Sep 2023.

2026 intake 7 report rows · 2 incidents

EventStatedOfficialDeltanNote
interview invites17 June 202514Direct-recruited critical care / anaesthetics HMO3 interviews (outside the match): St Vincent's and Northern 17 Jun, Peninsula 20 Jun, Wangaratta and RMH 24 Jun, Monash anaesthetics 25 Jun, Alfred 26 Jun, Austin 1 Jul, Eastern 10 Jul, Mercy 17 Jul, Monash crit care late Jul.comment ↗
interview invites30 June 202510BPT1 interview invites: Northern and Peninsula 30 Jun, Alfred 1 Jul, Eastern ~8 Jul, Ballarat, Western 15 Jul, Barwon 14 Jul, St Vincent's early Jul.comment ↗
offers11 July 20259Direct critical-care/ED HMO offers: Alfred ED, St V's ED/crit care, Monash anaesthetics, Austin, Western, Wangaratta 11 Jul; Eastern ICU 11 Jul; Eastern anaesthetics 18 Jul; Peninsula 21 Jul.comment ↗
results30 July 202530PMCV BPT1 match results released 10:00 30 Jul 2025, withdrawn at 14:49 and re-run at 16:00 (see incidents). No BPT1 row exists in campaigns.json.comment ↗
results6 Aug 202510PMCV psychiatry (Stage 1) match results out 6–7 Aug 2025; 270 applicants for 114 statewide places reported at a Mercy interview.comment ↗
interview invites28 Aug 202512PGY2 match interview invites: Peninsula 28 Aug, Alfred 30 Aug, GV Health and Grampians 2 Sep, Northern 2 Sep (by text, applicant rings the MEU to book), NE Health Wangaratta 5 Sep, Western 8 Sep, Austin 10 Sep. Monash and Eastern did not interview.comment ↗
results24 Sept 202524 Sept 20250 d6PGY2 match results on the official date; thread describes it as 'a bloodbath' with local graduates unmatched.comment ↗
  • Melbourne hospitals ran a hiring freeze over unclear 2025 budgets; people who had successfully applied for jobs had offers rescinded. (31 Oct 2024) comment ↗
  • PMCV BPT1 match algorithm failure. Results were published on the PMCV portal at 10:00 on 30 Jul 2025; a correction email went out at 14:49; the match was re-run and re-released at 16:00. Applicants moved in both directions — matched-to-unmatched, first-preference-to-lower-preference, and at least one unmatched-to-first-preference — and some had already received congratulation emails from the health service before the correction. PMCV had had two days of processing before publication. (30 July 2025) comment ↗ 2 ↗

2025 intake 4 report rows · 1 incident

EventStatedOfficialDeltanNote
interview invites17 June 20245Victorian Stage 1 psychiatry (VPTC/PMCV psych match): RMH interviews from ~13 Jun 2024, rejection emails from Western and Northern 18 Jun 2024.comment ↗
results1 July 20244PMCV radiology match results out 1 Jul 2024.comment ↗
results20 Aug 202412PMCV psychiatry match results out 20 Aug 2024 'after a few false starts'.comment ↗
results25 Sept 202425 Sept 20240 d2PGY2 match result reported the day after the official release date of 25 Sep 2024.comment ↗
  • The PMCV psychiatry match results for CY2025 were released on 20 Aug 2024 'after a few false starts' — the community's first recorded PMCV release-day wobble. (20 Aug 2024) 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 73 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
Austin HealthVIC(no specialty in title)4 (2026)Sep 50% of closes22
Magistrates CourtVICPaediatrics4 (2026)Sep 100% of closes4
Western HealthVICGeneral surgery4 (2026)Sep 50% of closes22
Bendigo Health (Loddon Mallee Health Network)VICPhysician training (BPT / general medicine)3 (2026)Sep 100% of closes3
Bendigo Health (Loddon Mallee Health Network)VIC(no specialty in title)3 (2026, 2030)Jan 67% of closes21
Grampians HealthVICEmergency medicine3 (2026)Oct 67% of closes12
Austin HealthVICMedical oncology2 (2026)too few to say2
Austin HealthVICRadiation oncology2 (2026)too few to say2
Austin HealthVICPhysician training (BPT / general medicine)2 (2026)too few to say2
Barwon HealthVICUrology2 (2026)too few to say2
Barwon HealthVICNeurology2 (2026)too few to say2
Barwon HealthVICPaediatrics2 (2026)too few to say2
Grampians HealthVICPhysician training (BPT / general medicine)2 (2026)too few to say2
Grampians HealthVICAnaesthetics2 (2026)too few to say2
Grampians HealthVICHaematology2 (2026)too few to say2
Latrobe Regional HealthVICGeneral surgery2 (2026)too few to say2
Mercy HealthVICObstetrics & gynaecology2 (2026)too few to say11
Western HealthVICPlastic & reconstructive surgery2 (2026)too few to say2
Western HealthVICPaediatrics2 (2026)too few to say2
Western HealthVICGeriatric medicine2 (2026)too few to say2
Western HealthVICENT2 (2026)too few to say2
Alfred HealthVICPsychiatry1 (2026)too few to say1
Alfred HealthVICEndocrinology1 (2026)too few to say1
Bairnsdale Regional Health ServiceVICGeneral surgery1 (2027)too few to say1
Bairnsdale Regional Health ServiceVICRehabilitation medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Barwon HealthVICCardiology1 (2026)too few to say1
Bendigo Health (Loddon Mallee Health Network)VICPsychiatry1 (2026)too few to say1
Bendigo Health (Loddon Mallee Health Network)VICAnaesthetics1 (2026)too few to say1
Bendigo Health (Loddon Mallee Health Network)VICGastroenterology1 (2026)too few to say1
Cabrini HealthVICGeneral surgery1 (2026)too few to say1
Eastern HealthVICPsychiatry1 (2026)too few to say1
Eastern HealthVICAnaesthetics1 (2026)too few to say1
Eastern HealthVICGeneral surgery1 (2026)too few to say1
Eastern HealthVICEndocrinology1 (2026)too few to say1
Grampians HealthVICMedical oncology1 (2026)too few to say1
Grampians HealthVICGeriatric medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Latrobe Regional HealthVICAnaesthetics1 (2026)too few to say1
Latrobe Regional HealthVICIntensive care1 (2026)too few to say1
Latrobe Regional HealthVICVascular surgery1 (2026)too few to say1
Latrobe Regional HealthVICUrology1 (2026)too few to say1
Latrobe Regional HealthVICPhysician training (BPT / general medicine)1 (2026)too few to say1
Magistrates CourtVIC(no specialty in title)1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVICPalliative medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVIC(no specialty in title)1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVICUrology1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVICNeurology1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVICPathology1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVICENT1 (2026)too few to say1
Monash HealthVICRelief / rotational (general stream)1 (2023)too few to say1
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVICAnaesthetics1 (2026)too few to say1
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVICMedical oncology1 (2026)too few to say1
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVICInfectious diseases1 (2026)too few to say1
Portland District HealthVICGeneral surgery1 (2026)too few to say1
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear HospitalVICEmergency medicine1 (2026)too few to say1
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear HospitalVICOphthalmology1 (2026)too few to say1
South West HealthcareVICPsychiatry1 (2026)too few to say1
St Vincent's Health AustraliaVICVascular surgery1 (2023)too few to say1
Western HealthVICPhysician training (BPT / general medicine)1 (2026)too few to say1