MALT for Affiliates

The Affiliate logbook has been created to meet the needs of surgeons who are not otherwise eligible to use MALT. Users can record and store data as a personal log of surgical procedures, use it as a tool for self audit or contribute case data to a peer review audit group.

Please contact the Morbidity Audits Support Team at [email protected] if you are interested in trialling usage of this logbook. 

Please note that Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMG) applying to RACS for specialist assessment are not required to use MALT to enter surgical cases and generate a logbook report for their application. See here for more information about the SIMG application process. If you choose to use the MALT Affiliate logbook and require a logbook summary for your SIMG application, please contact the Morbidity Audits Support Team who can assist with generating a report in the format required by the RACS Specialist International Medical Graduate Assessment Department.  

If your application for SIMG assessment is successful and you are required to undertake clinical practice assessment, then you will also be allocated a SIMG logbook in MALT to record surgical cases whilst under clinical supervision. 

Access to this logbook type will be via an annual subscription fee of A$360. The College is currently in the process of accommodating this electronic payment through the RACS website. In the interim, the Affiliate logbook is being provided to interested surgeons free of charge until such time as the payment process has been implemented. Once the payment system for the logbook is implemented your access will cease unless you opt to subscribe to the yearly subscription.

Any data you enter during the free period will still be available upon subscription. It will also remain available if you become a member of the College, such as a Fellow or SIMG. 

If you choose not to continue subscription, your case data can be extracted prior to access being suspended.

On request to the Morbidity Audits Support Team, users will be allocated the Affiliate logbook. 

On first accessing MALT you will need to :

1. Accept the terms of use
2. Set-up your MALT Account screen – the only item that you will need to complete on your account screen for usage of the Affiliate Logbook is entering the Hospitals that you work at.  

General information on MALT including User Guides can be found by clicking the MALT Support & Helpdesk link below

This field documents the role in theatre for each surgical procedure performed. The supervision level field is completed on the Procedure Details: Minimum Dataset tab on the MALT Case Entry screen.

The following values are available to select from in the drop down list:

This logbook type utilises the SNOMED CT-AU procedure list. 

MALT allows multiple procedures to be recorded in a case.

If you cannot find the procedure you want to enter, try searching the Shrimp browser for all available SNOMED CT-AU terms. If you still can't find what you're looking for, click on the 'can't find my procedure' option on the case entry screen and send the name of the procedure you are looking for to MALT staff.

Affiliate MALT users have access to a range of standard reports as well as Qlikview Self-Audit reports, all accessible from the reports tab in MALT. 

For reporting needs not met by the standard reports, including reports to be submitted for SIMG assessment, please contact the Morbidity Audits Support Team. They may be able to assist with production of a custom report.

MALT access and support documentation can be found in the links below.