The college is a signatory to the Cairns Consensus Statement of Rural Generalist Medicine endorsed by 23 national and international medical organisations.

[2][failed verification] The college provides training and assessment pathways to the award of Fellowship of ACRRM (FACRRM) to qualify as a Specialist Rural Generalist Physician.

The program is Australian Medical Council (AMC) accredited and designed to accommodate the distinct professional requirements of general practice in the rural and remote context.

[4] In 2002 the college's Professional Development Program (PDP) was formally recognized by the federal government as a mechanism for maintenance of Vocational Recognition (VR) for general practitioners in Australia.

This means that they can be recognised as a specialist general practitioner in Australia and through this can become eligible to deliver services that attract a Medicare rebate.

[6] These two documents define the conditions for vocational recognition of General Practitioners and provide three pathways to attaining this: The college initially sought recognition of Rural and Remote Medicine as a unique medical specialty in Australia through the then newly established Australian Medical Council (AMC) new specialty assessment process.

The AMC awarded the College Full accreditation as a provider of specialist medical training in general practice in 2011.