The Medical Board of Australia, as part of incoming national registration arrangements, will be establishing a register of specialists. This register will include GPs.

The AMA has made a submission to the Medical Board of Australia recommending that when it formulates the criteria for inclusion on the new specialist register, it should put in place transitional arrangements to ensure that vocationally registered GPs are included on the register when it is first established. This would be in addition to Fellows of the relevant College.

A copy of the submission can be found here.