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Apply to every one you would actually work at. NSW has eleven HETI networks, you apply to each separately, and you get exactly one offer after preference matching 12. There is no penalty for breadth and a real penalty for narrowness. Pick on geography, rotation footprint and level-3 sites — not on a tier list.
Know the machinery first. NSW runs eleven HETI-coordinated networks, each a named list of sites — Concord, East Coast Medical, Hunter Regional, Illawarra, Liverpool, Nepean, Northern Sydney Coastal, RPA, St George, St Vincent's South West, Westmead 1. You apply to each network separately, rank by emailed link, and receive one offer 2. From the 2025 clinical year NSW no longer approves PGY2s for basic training, so entry is PGY3 on a three-year contract 1. Queensland is the opposite shape: one statewide network with five rotations, applied for inside the RMO & Registrar Campaign, with a six-station MMI worth 60% of the score 3. In WA the job comes first — you cannot apply for BPT selection unless you already hold or are pooled for a 12-month-plus RMO or SMR contract at a network site, and casual and locum contracts are excluded 4.
What actually distinguishes networks. Rotation footprint and how far it makes you move; which sites are RACP level 3; and whether the network reaches the advanced training you want. RPA's network runs to Alice Springs and Dubbo; Queensland's Far North is Cairns plus Atherton and Innisfail 13.
What the sub argues about, and what it agrees on. Tier lists get posted and immediately contested; the agreed part is that every NSW network ties into a tertiary centre and you can reach any physician specialty from any of them 5. The strongest recurring warning is the opposite of a tier list — the network with the best subspecialty reputation can be the worst place to be an internal candidate 6.
The counter-argument on prestige. Coming from outside a network is not fatal; inner-city units hire advanced trainees out of busy under-preferenced hospitals because those trainees are more capable 7.
BPT written exam pass rates by hospital are quoted constantly and are not published by RACP.
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Westmead is a cardio powerhouse but they're notorious for leaving their internals in the lurch and having unaccredited hell (multiple years where you dont get on).
You can get into any physician specialty from any of the NSW BPT networks, they all tie in nicely to tertiary centres. I would make your choice based on which location is close to your support networks.
For our family the biggest issue was networks expecting large moves. No good for stability with children or partner careers.
In NSW the popular inner city hospitals often hire their advanced trainees from those who completed BPT at chaotic busy hospitals that people don't preference for internship. The logic being the JMOs there are just so much more capable after PGY2.
Average candidate probably gets like 3-4 offers if you applied to all 11 networks while good ones usually get like 9-10. You are disqualified from all places that do not send you an interview invite.
Asked 23 times on r/ausjdocs (title-regex count) · encoded by hand from the numbered sources, retrieved 12 Sept 2026; no AI wrote any of it. how the count was made
asked_count = posts in the r/ausjdocs dump (19,145 posts, 2022-09-13 to 2026-09-12) whose title matches /\bBPT\b.{0,40}(network|hospital|site|where)|network.{0,30}\bBPT\b/i. Quotes are the highest-scoring comments in the BPT-network threads, chosen so the 'any network works, pick on geography' view sits beside the two cautionary claims about moves and internal candidates.