The only college in this group with a national, college-run competitive selection round AND a compulsory pre-selection exam.
Typical start years; people vary by a year or two. Diamonds are exams. Stage list and sources in the pathway tab.
ACSEP publishes its own success rate — 57% (2023), 43% (2024) — and caps the interview pool at first-year places + 50%, so the entrance exam and MMI are the real filters. Ratings are the encoder's 1–5 call from college numbers and r/ausjdocs; applicant-to-place ratios double-count people who apply in several states. Evidence rows are in getting selected.
Three FTE years of self-designed 'Foundation Training' in general medical/surgical fields, pass the ACSEP Entrance Examination (Papers A and B, remote, March and July), then a CV-scored application and an MMI that dominates the ranking; the interview pool is capped at first-year places + 50%. Selection succeeded for 57% (2023) and 43% (2024). Training happens in private ACSEP Accredited Training Practices, not hospitals, and there is no guaranteed registrar salary — you are a contractor. July 2025 Group A4 Medicare status materially improved the consultant economics.
I am honestly not aware of Public Consultants in Sports Medicine. Perhaps a sole role within the Aus Sports Commission?
This will change by the time you finish but if you really want to you can earn up to 500+. This will take a while to build your practice but you have to work full time (5days), mostly interventions and ideally work for yourself. Add in some assisting, especially early on, will help. If you want to work in team…
A close buddy of mine is a sports physician, and you're right, there are no public positions at all, this is a purely private specialty.
It is a great job. The good things are probably pretty obvious. Opportunities to live out childhood dreams regarding sporting experiences, a healthy and motivated patient population, and good work life balance with reasonable pay. I do enjoy the many opportunities you have for health prevention. Every consult is a…
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One ACSEP-run round. 2027 intake: applications open Friday 31 July 2026, close Friday 14 August 2026; interview notifications 11 September; interviews 19 September; commencement February 2027. Jobs are largely not on state health boards — ACSEP site, clinic websites, Seek and word of mouth; email registrars@acsep.org.au.
One ACSEP page describes a 2026 selection round for a February 2028 start — verify the commencement year against the current key-dates page.
Dates drift a week or two each year; the calendar has confirmed vs expected windows.
ACSEP Entrance Examination required before application
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"Cost to get on" is a name-based pick of the one-off fees paid before or at selection. The college schedule is a lifetime-of-training list at each item's own year, not one bill; community amounts overlap it and are never summed. Courses, travel and repeat sittings are the part the sub complains about.
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ACSEP registrar. Depends where you work! Less than a hospital registrar in your first year. No guaranteed salary (unless the clinic has STP funding which is ~105pa plus 25% of billings). You will be employed as a contractor, so no leave or super paid either. Many/most first year registrars combine clinic work with…
This will change by the time you finish but if you really want to you can earn up to 500+. This will take a while to build your practice but you have to work full time (5days), mostly interventions and ideally work for yourself. Add in some assisting, especially early on, will help. If you want to work in team…
My husbands an ortho and did sports med program, I believe a large portion of ACSEP fellows are ortho backgrounds. He has done some club work for the afl , which is all primary 0.6FTE or less , and depending on your club, but a few years ago that was around roughly 210 per year at .6. I think it might be one of those…
Not a sports med reg but I know a lot of them. I can’t give you a figure since it’s very variable depending on what jobs you take on. Are you going to be a reg working with the AFL/NRL? Or someone with the VIS/QAS? How much clinic time will you do? How much of a gap are you going to be charging at your clinic? How…
Hi again, there is a massive range in registrar pay in Aus. I know multiple registrars who have cleared $200k doing a lot of PRP injections or having well paid team physician jobs. It’s difficult to confidently give you a minimum pay because it is private practice.. there are a few government funded registrar roles…
Training is done in private clinics. High patient load in NZ because of the ACC which fully funds all injury related consults. Patient load in Aus is highly variable. I think that the rebates are the lowest out of any specialty. In NZ the pathology in clinic is 99% injuries (acute and overuse) with the occasional…
I am honestly not aware of Public Consultants in Sports Medicine. Perhaps a sole role within the Aus Sports Commission?
SEM physicians are euphemistically seen as orthopaedic surgeons that don’t do surgery or physiotherapists and exercise scientists that went on to study medicine. Many who go into SEM tend to from a GP, ED, surgical or allied health background, plus like to work with athletes or the sports industry, and these medicos…
A close buddy of mine is a sports physician, and you're right, there are no public positions at all, this is a purely private specialty.
The first step is passing the ACSEP entrance examination held twice yearly in March and July which costs $2100.
Anatomy in my view was around 40% upper limb, 40% lower limb, 20% the other sections listed. You only need to know MSK anatomy and so the latest colour edition of Lasts should suffice as opposed to the massive one they use for surgical Part 1s. To supplement anatomy I did find the Atlas of Human Anatomy (Netter)…
I only sat part 3 of the ACSEP entrance exam (the exercise physiology MCQ) as I’d already passed the GSSE which gives you dispensation for parts 1 and 2. Part 3 was fairly straight forward. I can’t remember which textbook it was exactly, but the one on the recommended reading list covers it all. I read through it…
Love how these huge sporting and entertainment events charge the many entrants lots per ticket, and will pay for all sorts of things including private police, venue rental, insurance, band fees, etc., but then totally skimp on sourcing proper healthcare staff. The NSW Coroner's report on the 6 or so music festival…
just dont be a straight male. they'll prioritise everyone else.
This year, the College offered 16 applicants an interview. The number of interviews offered is based on the number of confirmed ACSEP Accredited Training Practices offering placement for a Year 1 Registrar in 2024 + 50% of the number at the time of interviews being offered. Practices identifying their availability to…
I've been wondering about this for a while purely from a curiosity perspective. I've never met a sports reg or someone keen on it, and I've always wondered where they are.
They are called Sport & Exercise Physicians. It’s a four year specialist training program at ACSEP, and all trainees have to manage a contact sport team for a whole season as well as a dozen other major and minor events throughout the program. As the person below says, they have to do refresher courses every three…
I sat the exam in my PGY4 year (no choice as I was an international doctor). I would highly recommend sitting the exam as early as you can and getting it out of the way. If you fail first time - no big deal you can sit it again next year. The CV section is so tough now as they expect a lot of experience, worth getting…
It is a great job. The good things are probably pretty obvious. Opportunities to live out childhood dreams regarding sporting experiences, a healthy and motivated patient population, and good work life balance with reasonable pay. I do enjoy the many opportunities you have for health prevention. Every consult is a…
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