SA MET Health Advisory Council
The SA MET Health Advisory Council (the Advisory Council) has been delegated by the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) to undertake the accreditation and monitoring of all intern training positions in South Australia. The Advisory Council provides accreditation recommendations regarding intern training positions to the South Australia Board of the Medical Board of Australia.
SA MET Accreditation Committee
The Accreditation Committee assists the Advisory Council. It reviews all accreditation reports and recommendations, prior to their consideration by the Advisory Council.
South Australian Board of the Medical Board of Australia
The South Australian Board of the Medical Board of Australia considers recommendations made by the Advisory Council in relation to the accreditation status of intern positions and provides written notification to the Advisory Council of its decision as to whether or not such recommendations have been approved for general registration purposes.
Chief Executive, SA Health and the Minister for Health and Wellbeing
The Advisory Council reports on the accreditation and monitoring of non-intern prevocational positions to the Chief Executive, SA Health and the Minister for Health.
SA MET Unit
The SA MET Unit coordinates accreditation teams to undertake site visits and supports the Accreditation Committee to make recommendations for accreditation. SA MET also notify Local Health Networks (LHNs) of all accreditation decisions made by the Advisory Council and the South Australian Board of the Medical Board of Australia.
The SA MET Unit is the single point of contact for all LHNs regarding accreditation matters (LHN representatives should not contact the South Australian Board of the Medical Board of Australia about unit or facility accreditation outcomes).
AMC Accreditation of sa met health advisory council
The SA MET Health Advisory Council is accredited as an Intern Training Accreditation Authority by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) and the Medical Board of Australia. The purpose of AMC accreditation is to recognise intern training programs that promote and protect the quality and safety of patient care and meet the needs of the interns and the health service as a whole. This is achieved through setting standards for intern training programs and recognising intern training accreditation authorities that assess programs against these standards.
In 2022, an AMC team completed an assessment of the SA MET Health Advisory Council’s prevocational accreditation functions against the AMC’s Intern Training – domains for assessing accreditation authorities.
In August 2023, the AMC Directors agreed that the SA MET Health Advisory Council substantially meets the domains and is accredited as an intern training accreditation authority until 31 March 2028.
