Survey opens to all of Australia's doctors in training

The 2025 Medical Training Survey (MTS) has opened, giving trainees the chance to add to evidence already being used to improve medical training in Australia.

A longitudinal study — run by the Medical Board of Australia and Ahpra — that tracks the quality of medical training over time, the MTS has stringent privacy controls make it safe and confidential for trainees to take part.

“It’s your voice and your data. Do the MTS in 2025 and use the results to shape your future training choices,” said Dr Susan O’Dwyer, Chair of the Medical Board of Australia. “When you do the MTS, you strengthen the value of a rare, searchable online dataset that you can use to benchmark your training options.”

Because comparisons are important, most MTS questions are consistent year to year, with the survey layout and format streamlined each year to make it quicker and easier to do.

Results from past surveys are available online and are accessed and analysed by trainees to inform their choice of training sites and specialties, while hospitals and employers use MTS data to identify hot-spots and drive positive changes in training — six years of MTS results that has built a robust evidence-base hospitals are using to compare their performance and identify opportunities to improve.

All doctors in training in Australia can do the MTS and 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.

For more information, visit www.medicaltrainingsurvey.gov.au.

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