The 2025 MTS is now open!
Time to do the MTS! You’ll see the survey link pop up when you renew your registration, right before the end. Interns and IMGs, your personal survey link is in your email from the Medical Board of Australia.
What’s new in 2025
We’ve tweaked the 2025 MTS questions to make the survey easier to navigate and complete. We will also be asking most specialist trainees what phase of training they are in. Click here to see the 2025 MTS questions.
Your voice, your data!
Use the data built by the trainees who went before you. And pay it forward to future trainees - do the 2025 MTS.
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Your feedback is having an impact
The time you spend doing the MTS is helping improve medical training! Read how MTS results are being used to drive change.
Doing the MTS is worth your time, because your data is making a difference.
SURVEY FAQs
Why should I do the MTS?
Do the 2025 MTS to amplify the voice of trainees. Share your experience to put the lived experience of trainees at the centre of positive change. Past trainees lobbied for the MTS. You can also use the data built by past trainees to make your training choices.
How do I create my own report?
You can create your own report using the ‘advanced filters’ and/or comparison tool in the Create your own report section of this website.
Use the ‘advanced filters’ and/or comparison tool in the data dashboard to select the fields you want, hit ‘apply’ and the specific results you’ve requested will be displayed (providing confidentiality thresholds have been met). You can download the results or have a PDF or Excel report emailed to you by submitting your email when you are ready to generate your report. It will take no longer than 1 business day to receive your report.
When does the MTS start?
The 2025 MTS will open in August.
NEWS
2025 Medical Training Survey now open!
Health check for medical training
The Medical Training Survey (MTS) is now open – giving trainees the chance to add to the evidence already being used to improve medical training.
Trainees are accessing and analysing past MTS results to inform their choice of training sites and specialties. Hospitals and employers are using the MTS data to identify hot-spots and drive positive changes in training.
The MTS is a longitudinal study that tracks the quality of medical training over time. Stringent privacy controls make it safe and confidential for trainees to take part. The MTS is run by the Medical Board of Australia. The Chair of the Medical Board of Australia, Dr Susan O’Dwyer, encouraged trainees to do the MTS.
‘It’s your voice and your data. Do the MTS in 2025 and use the results to shape your future training choices’ Dr O’Dwyer said.
Past years’ MTS data are accessible and free, online through the...
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MTS data giving trainees choices in a buyer’s market
“We’re listening.”
That’s the headline message to doctors in training from the new Chair of the Medical Training Survey (MTS), Dr Brooke Sheldon.
Also Chair of the Tasmanian Board of the Medical Board of Australia, Dr Sheldon says MTS results are already being applied to positive affect, with stakeholders harnessing its invaluable insights.
“Employers and educators know it’s a buyer’s market. They are very responsive to trainee feedback and are using MTS data as a quality assurance tool to identify areas for improvement,” she said.
‘New medical graduates are using MTS data to find out where training is good and where culture is supportive. MTS data provides the evidence base informing their training choices,” she said.
Dr Sheldon plans to draw on her background in medical education, experience in primary care and passion for driving positive change in the culture of medicine in her work with the MTS.
‘I’m really passionate about medical culture, and...
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Racism and sexual harassment faced by medical trainees
New questions bring new insights: Medical Training Survey results strengthen data value
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical trainees report experiencing and/or witnessing racism at more than double the rate of colleagues, the latest Medical Training Survey (MTS) has found.
Results of the 2024 MTS also reveal more than 1,000 trainees (five per cent) reported experiencing and/or witnessing sexual harassment.
One third of trainees (33%) reported having experienced and/or witnessed bullying, discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and/or racism, spiking to 54% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees and 44% of interns.
Medical Board of Australia Chair, Dr Anne Tonkin AO, said 38% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees reported experiencing or witnessing racism, compared to 17% of other trainees.
‘I am appalled by what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees report. Clearly, our efforts to strengthen cultural safety in medicine and the health system more widely are urgent and well targeted. Our health system...
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2024 Medical Training Survey results now available!
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