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. 10 campaign rows in all (5 confirmed). Subscribe (.ics).
WACHS ASPIRE (surgical) and RAPTOR One (rural physician) pathways · Resident (PGY2), Senior resident (PGY3+)
'ASPIRE/RAPTOR One 2027: 23 Mar–13 Apr 2026'. WACHS direct; CV + 2-page statement.
wacountry.health.wa.gov.au · retrieved 12 Sept 2026
WA psychiatry (RANZCP) 2027 intake · Accredited registrar
Report Part B: 'WA 25 May–22 Jun' 2026 (same window as the RMO/SMR pool).
ranzcp.org · retrieved 12 Sept 2026
MedCareersWA annual RMO/SMR centralised recruitment pool · Resident (PGY2), Senior resident (PGY3+), Unaccredited / service registrar
25 May-22 Jun 2026 12:00 AWST (Govt media statement + MedCareersWA). Up to 3 site preferences. Key dates now PDF-only on publicstorage.dc2.pageuppeople.com. PATCH 2026-09-13: the three missing milestones come from a candidate's verbatim quote of the MedCareersWA suitability-pool email of 10 Aug 2026 - 'First offers round - from 17 August 2026 (candidates 1st preference hospital gets first opportunity); General offers round - from 7 September 2026 (any hospital - 2nd/3rd preference, etc.); Final cutoff - 12:00PM AWST, Friday 11 September 2026. No offer by this deadline means the pool has closed and the application is unsuccessful' (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1uv2lde/wa_rmosmr_campaign_2027/p2rrul1/) - corroborated by 14 independent offer reports from 17 Aug (PCH day one, KEMH 21 Aug, SJOG interview 14 Aug then offer, FSH 26 Aug, WACHS 28 Aug). Assessment/selection period 13 Jul - 7 Aug 2026 and referee-report deadline 23 Jul 2026 also have no field. THE POOL CUT-OFF HAS NO FIELD IN THIS SCHEMA: 12:00 AWST Friday 11 Sep 2026, and it was extended by email on 9 Sep 2026 - the seed needs a closes_pool_at (or equivalent) column, because in WA 'no offer by the cut-off' is the rejection. First-offers round moved a week earlier than CY2026 (25 Aug 2025), which the community did not notice for three days. Official URL retaining opens/closes: https://medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au/rmo-smr-centralised-recruitment.
reddit.com · retrieved 13 Sept 2026
| Event | Stated | Official | Delta | n | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| results | 13 July 2026 | — | 6 | Published assessment/selection period 13 Jul – 7 Aug 2026; referees contacted from the week of submission. | comment ↗ | |
| applications close | 23 July 2026 | — | 4 | Referee-report completion deadline (not the 22 Jun application deadline): reports were due 23 Jul 2026, and reports submitted after the Notification of Outcomes were refused outright. | comment ↗ | |
| results | 10 Aug 2026 | — | 12 | Suitability-pool emails 10 Aug 2026 carrying the three dated milestones (17 Aug, 7 Sep, 11 Sep cut-off). | comment ↗ | |
| offers | 17 Aug 2026 | — | 14 | First-offers round from Monday 17 Aug 2026 — a week earlier than CY2026's 25 Aug. PCH offered on day one; KEMH 21 Aug; SJOG interview 14 Aug then offers; FSH 26 Aug; WACHS 28 Aug. | comment ↗ | |
| second round | 7 Sept 2026 | — | 8 | General-offers round from 7 Sep 2026; applicants' portals switched to showing both the first-preference site and the general pool. | comment ↗ | |
| late vacancies | 11 Sept 2026 | — | 4 | Stated final cut-off 12:00PM AWST Friday 11 Sep 2026; on 9 Sep applicants were emailed that the pool closure had been extended. | comment ↗ |
MedCareersWA mid-year RMO/SMR recruitment pool · Resident (PGY2), Senior resident (PGY3+), Unaccredited / service registrar
Live site (12 Sep 2026): 'The next round will open in January 2027 for Mid-year starts.' Month only, so opens_at is null; positions commence ~August 2027.
medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au · retrieved 12 Sept 2026
| Intake | Campaign | Round | Opens | Closes | Interviews | Offers | Second round | Status | Source | Caveat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2028 | MedCareersWA annual RMO/SMR centralised recruitment pool | main | — | — | — | — | — | expected | medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au | Based on 3 previous years (2024–2026 pools closed 10 Jun, 23 Jun, 22 Jun); live site: 'the centralised recruitment pool opening each year in May/June'. Key dates now PDF-only. |
| 2028 | MedCareersWA mid-year RMO/SMR recruitment pool | mid-year | — | — | — | — | — | expected | medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au | Based on 3 previous years (2025, 2026, 2027 mid-year pools opened in January); site: 'Midyear Recruitment — Opens in January for positions commencing in August.' |
| 2026 | MedCareersWA annual RMO/SMR centralised recruitment pool | main | 26 May 2025 | 23 June 2025 | — | 25 Aug 2025 | — | expected | reddit.com | '2026 RMO and SMR Centralised Recruitment - Annual intake / Applications open: 26 May 2025 / Applications closed: 23 June 2025'. Also confirmed by recruitment-cycles.md. PATCH 2026-09-13: offers_from 2025-08-25 is community-sourced (9 reports) - suitability-pool emails 11-13 Aug 2025 named 25 Aug as the offer start (https://www.reddit.com/r/ausjdocs/comments/1ltn5tz/) and first-preference offers duly began 25 Aug (FSH 25 Aug; PCH, RPBG and RPH 26 Aug; further FSH 28 Aug; SCGH applicants still waiting 9 Sep; the general round had produced nothing by 15-16 Sep). Original official provenance of opens/closes is preserved: Wayback capture 20251008094523 of medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au/resident-medical-officers, retrieved 2025-10-08T09:45:23Z. |
| 2026 | MedCareersWA mid-year RMO/SMR recruitment pool | mid-year | 7 Jan 2026 | 4 Feb 2026 | — | 23 Mar 2026 | — | confirmed | wayback | 'Applications open: 7 January 2026 9:00AM AWST / Applications close: 4 February 2026 12:00PM AWST / Notification of Outcome: From 16 March 2026 / First Round of Offers: From 23 March 2026'. Positions commencing August 2026. |
| 2025 | MedCareersWA annual RMO/SMR centralised recruitment pool | main | — | 10 June 2024 | — | — | — | confirmed | wayback | Source is the campaign job ad, not a key-dates page: 'Closing Date: 4:00pm AWST Monday 10 June 2024'; 'Appointments may be made from this pool until September 2024'; 'commencing from January 2025 or later'. No open date stated. Job-ad slug is truncated in the report ('…-centralised-recruitment-…'); Wayback lookup may need the full slug. No WA captures exist before 2024-05-03. |
| 2025 | MedCareersWA mid-year RMO/SMR recruitment pool | mid-year | 8 Jan 2025 | — | — | 13 Mar 2025 | 24 Mar 2025 | expected | reddit.com | '2025 RMO and SMR Centralised Recruitment - Mid-year intake / Applications open: 8 January 2025'. Close date not captured. PATCH 2026-09-13: offers_from and second_round_at are community-sourced (6 and 3 reports) - mid-year first-preference offers 13 Mar 2025 (FSH, RPH, Kings, SJOG; PCH 14 Mar; SCGH 17 Mar; further FSH 18 Mar), general round from 24 Mar 2025. Original official provenance of opens_at is preserved: Wayback capture 20250121160515 of medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au/resident-medical-officers-service-registrars, retrieved 2025-01-21T16:05:15Z. |
| Event | Stated | Official | Delta | n | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| results | 11 Aug 2025 | — | 5 | Suitability-pool emails 11–13 Aug 2025 naming 25 Aug as the offer start. | comment ↗ | |
| offers | 25 Aug 2025 | — | 9 | First-preference offers from 25 Aug 2025: FSH 25 Aug, PCH, RPBG and RPH 26 Aug, further FSH 28 Aug; SCGH applicants still waiting 9 Sep. | comment ↗ | |
| second round | posted 15 Sept 2025 | — | 3 | General round still producing nothing by 15–16 Sep 2025. | comment ↗ | |
| results | 16 Mar 2026 | — | 8 | Mid-year suitability outcome on 16 Mar 2026 exactly as flagged; unsuccessful emails the same morning with written feedback. | comment ↗ | |
| offers | 23 Mar 2026 | 23 Mar 2026 | 0 d | 10 | First-preference offers from 23 Mar 2026: RPBG 23 Mar, FSH and SJOG 24 Mar, WACHS/Bunbury interviews 25–26 Mar, SCGH 31 Mar. | comment ↗ |
| second round | 7 Apr 2026 | — | 4 | General round from 7 Apr 2026. | comment ↗ | |
| late vacancies | 13 Apr 2026 | — | 3 | 'Recruitment pool closed' email 13 Apr 2026 ends the mid-year campaign. | 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.
"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.
| Employer | State | Specialty | Closed ads | Usually closes | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Anaesthetics | 2 (2026) | too few to say | 2 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Psychiatry | 2 (2026) | too few to say | 2 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Obstetrics & gynaecology | 2 (2026) | too few to say | 2 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | (no specialty in title) | 1 (2026) | too few to say | 1 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | General surgery | 1 (2026) | too few to say | 1 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Urology | 1 (2026) | too few to say | 1 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Intensive care | 1 (2026) | too few to say | 1 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Medical administration | 1 (2026) | too few to say | 1 | |||||||||||
| WA Health (MedCareersWA) | WA | Public health medicine | 1 (2026) | too few to say | 1 |