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 MTS data dashboard.
‘When you do the MTS, you strengthen the value of a rare, searchable online dataset that you can use to benchmark your training options’ Dr O’Dwyer said.
Most MTS questions are consistent year to year because comparisons are important. We streamline the format and layout of the survey each year making the MTS quicker and easier to do.
In 2025, we are asking most specialist trainees what phase of training they are in.
Data from six years of MTS results has built a robust evidence-base that hospitals are using to compare their performance and identify opportunities to improve.
Case studies showing how MTS results are being used to improve training are published on the MTS website.
Results from past surveys are available online at www.MedicalTrainingSurvey.gov.au. Results are detailed in reports by specialty, gender and state/territory, or accessible via the online data dashboard that enables users to create their own tailored reports.
All doctors in training in Australia can do the MTS. This includes interns, hospital medical officers, resident medical officers, non-accredited trainees, postgraduate trainees, principal house officers, registrars, specialist trainees and international medical graduates (with provisional or limited registration).
Career medical officers who intend to undertake further postgraduate training in medicine can also participate.
There are five versions of the survey, tailored to the different groups of trainees: interns, prevocational and unaccredited trainees, international medical graduates (with provisional or limited registration), specialist GP trainees and specialist non-GP trainees.
About the MTS
The MTS is a national, annual, profession-wide survey of all doctors in training in Australia. It is safe and confidential for doctors in training to take part.
The MTS is run by the Medical Board of Australia and Aphra and was developed collaboratively with doctors in training, specialist medical colleges, jurisdictions, postgraduate medical councils, Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, Australian Medical Council, Australian Medical Association, NSW Medical Council, Doctors' Health Services and other stakeholders.
For more information
- Visit www.MedicalTrainingSurvey.gov.au for access to the MTS results and articles on how stakeholders are using the MTS results
- To contact the Medical Board of Australia, visit www.medicalboard.gov.au
- Make an online enquiry
- For registration enquiries: 1300 419 495 (within Australia) +61 3 9125 3010 (overseas callers)
- For media enquiries: (03) 8708 9200