Domain 5

## 5 Stakeholder collaboration

#### Domain

The intern training accreditation authority works to build stakeholder support and collaborates with other intern training accreditation authorities, and medical education standards authorities.

#### Attributes

- 5.1 There are processes for engaging with stakeholders, including health departments, health services, junior doctors, doctors who supervise and assess junior doctors, the national board, professional organisations, and consumers/community.
- 5.2 There is a communications strategy, including a website providing information about the intern training accreditation authority’s roles, functions and procedures.
- 5.3 The intern training accreditation authority collaborates with other relevant accreditation organisations.
- 5.4 The intern training accreditation authority works within overarching national and international structures of quality assurance/accreditation.
- 5.1 There are processes for engaging with stakeholders, including health departments, health services, junior doctors, doctors who supervise and assess junior doctors, the national board, professional organisations, and consumers/community.

The wide range of stakeholders on the METC Medical Advisory Committee provides input from a number of local and national organisations to the METC and also disseminates information back to their representative groups. The medical education and training community in the NT is interested and passionate and is represented across METC committees and panels. These committee stakeholders and other stakeholders make themselves available for various, sometimes impromptu and informal discussions regarding the expectations and requirements for training in the NT. The accreditation panel, committee and working groups are all supported by the prevocational accreditation support staff and have a variety of representation of stakeholder groups in their membership. See Appendix B for stakeholder representative groups targeted. Where possible our survey teams have a cross section of senior clinicians, intern supervisors, junior doctor representation, health department staff involved in oversight of intern education and training, external medical education and training providers and we have utilised other jurisdictional accreditation staff to participate in NT survey events in the past. METC does not currently have a consumer/community representative (who does not work for the DoH) as there is no established health consumer representative group in the NT to disseminate, provide advice and participate on our committees or panels. This is something that the DoH is currently working on through a Stakeholder Engagement Framework that is in the process of being implemented across the NT. METC and previously NTPMC have worked diligently to include all stakeholders in the accreditation decision making processes to ensure all stakeholders have a voice and can participate in the processes used to make good policy and deliver on programs and services. METC has a close working relationship with NT Department of Health (DoH) as it is supported and funded by the agency. The Director of METC provides advice to NT DoH and facilities regarding training for junior doctors and supervisors as well as the role those registrars play in the supervisory structure for JMOs.