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This article is from the soc.culture.australian FAQ, by Stephen Wales with numerous contributions by others.

8.7.3 Doctors

Doctors in Australia are generally private practitioners and charge a
fee for each service they provide, or medical procedure performed.

In Australia students choose to study medicine when they leave high
school. Medicine is one of the most competitive courses to get into.
The first 3 years are pre-clinical course work undertaken at the
university (i.e. chemistry, physics, biochemistry, anatomy,
pharmacology, etc). The 4th to 6th years are clinical training.
Typically students are attached to one hospital, and do rotations
through the major medical disciplines. In their final year students
can choose to spend time at another institution (which may be
overseas) in any specialty they like. At the end of their 6 years,
they take their final exams. After that, they have to do at least a
year's residency before they are qualified to practice. More
residencies and qualifications are needed for any specialty, and
further qualifications are needed even to become a GP. [AN]

* Overseas doctors working in Australia [PW]

To practice medicine in oz you need to be registered with the state
medical council (whatever it's called). You can do this in a number
of ways: (1) Do (and pass :-) a medical course in an ozzie or kiwi
uni, (2) Do medicine at a recognised+ overseas uni and then pass the
medical council's exam (about equivalent to ozzie finals), (3) Have a
degree from one of these medical schools, have obtained fellowship of
one of the specialist medical colleges and have >3 years specialist
experience (ie, be the equivalent of an ozzie consultant). You might
also have to do an english exam if it isn't your first language.

+ a list of recognised universities and appropriate qualifications
will be supplied by the medical council, I think they include most UK,
Ireland and main USA medical schools. If you didn't go to one of
these places then see method (1).

Note: Until 18 months ago the different states had different
requirements for registration of foreign medics; NSW was as described
above. However, they then standardised to the NSW system to make the
states consistently strict (with the previous system, you could
register in Queensland and a transfer to NSW).

 

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