ANZCA & FPM trainee survey
We’ll be sending out the Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine Trainee Survey in mid-July 2025. We invite all anaesthesia and pain medicine trainees to participate.
The trainee survey aims to gather valuable feedback from all current anaesthesia and pain medicine trainees to capture your perspectives on our training programs, training sites, and the broader trainee experience.
The survey will be administered by a third-party (vendor to be announced shortly) so you can provide us with anonymous and transparent feedback.
The survey will be split over two years, with each year focusing on different aspects of the training program.
In 2025, the survey will seek your feedback on the following:
- Training and assessment requirements.
- Training environment and experiences at training sites.
- Access to teaching and learning resources.
In 2026, the focus of the survey will shift to questions aimed at different aspects of the training program (for example, trainee wellbeing and support, quality of supervision, communications and cultural safety). We’ll confirm the details of the 2026 survey next year.
Look out for an email from us in mid-July with further information on the survey and when you can expect to receive the survey link invitation from the third-party vendor.
FAQs
Do I have to complete the survey?
While we encourage all trainees to complete the survey, it is not mandatory. We do strongly encourage all trainees to complete the survey to help inform improvements to the training program/experience. The survey has, historically, been a very useful tool to identify strengths and weaknesses in the training program.
Who is responsible for the survey?
The survey has been developed by the Trainee Survey Renewal Project Working Group in consultation with several ANZCA and FPM committees. There has been extensive work across the college to develop the survey questions to elicit positive and tangible improvements to the training program and trainee experience.
Why is an external company administering the survey?
To protect your privacy, we’ve contracted a third-party to administer the 2025 trainee survey (vendor to be announced shortly), and to analyse the results. The use of a third-party will ensure anonymity of your responses and will provide us with objective and data-driven findings to help us improve the quality of the training program/experience.
How are you ensuring my response is anonymous?
We have contracted a third-party to ensure all individual trainee responses will be anonymous, and only aggregated findings (above a minimum-response threshold) will be presented to ANZCA and FPM. Any analysis or reporting completed by the third-party at a site-level will be carefully managed by setting respondent criteria (for example, reporting will be provided only if more than eight trainees have rotated through the site over the previous 12 months, and more than three trainees from the site have responded).
Who sees the survey results?
The third-party vendor will provide us with aggregated and de-identified reports on each of the survey sections. This information will be provided to relevant ANZCA and FPM business units and the relevant committees who will be responding and actioning the improvements identified from the findings.
