What is Clinical Learning Australia?
Clinical Learning Australia (CLA) is an ePortfolio that records the development, training and assessment of PGY1 and PGY2 prevocational trainees across Australia. From 2026, sites can include PGY3+ doctors not in a college training program (PGY3) and International Medical Graduates (IMG) progressing to general registration, in CLA. CLA delivers a consistent approach to prevocational training and assessment in line with National Framework for Prevocational Medical Training.
CLA is designed to replace manual paper-based learning and assessments by allowing users to record learning goals and complete training and assessments, including mid-term assessments, end-of-term assessment and Entrustrable Professional Activities (EPA).
Key Users of CLA
PGY1, PGY2, PGY3 and IMG doctors can log their learning experiences in CLA. It is an individual record of learning, summarising the rotations and assessments completed, start-of-term discussions, mid-term and end-of-term assessments as well as progress against prevocational outcome statements and EPAs.
Term supervisors and primary clinical supervisors can track and monitor training for each PGY1, PGY2, PGY3 and IMG doctor in CLA and record start-of-term discussions, and mid-term and end-of-term assessments.
Clinical supervisors and health practitioners who conduct EPAs with PGY1 and PGY2 doctors can complete these in CLA.
Administrators from Medical Education Units can control how the system is set up to support training in their organisation. They can create and upload users within their organisation, upload and manage information related to accredited PGY1, PGY2 and PGY3 terms and term allocations, monitor the progress of trainees including if they have completed EPAs and all term-related assessments and assign members to an Assessment Review Panel for final assessment.
End of the 2025 Clinical Year and Preparation for 2026
2025/26 Change of Clinical Year
As the 2025 clinical year comes to an end, CLA can be used to finalise outcomes for PGY1, PGY2, PGY3 and IMG doctors completing their prevocational training. This document is intended for Medical Education Unit Administrators of CLA to support them in preparing for the end of the 2025 clinical year including reference guides on the Assessment Review Panel process within CLA, generating a transcript of learning, ensuring all trainees have Ahpra numbers in CLA to support the process of sending information to Ahpra and the AMC, how to include end dates for your groups and instances and using CLA to generate reports for Ahpra and the AMC.
The document also contains resources to support Medical Education Unit Administrators in preparing for the 2026 clinical year including initial and annual set ups of CLA, introducing CLA at orientation, creating 2026 groups and instances, linking supervisors to terms, what to do when a trainee is seconded to your site and what to do when a trainee will continue their training into the next clinical year.
To move a trainee between sites/health services/jurisdictions, please contact CLA support via email: [email protected].
To further assist with 2026 preparation, please see the below resources:
