Accreditation of overseas trained doctors: The continuing crisis

People and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 37-47

  Birrell, Bob ^a   Schwartz, Andrew ^a  

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HOSPITAL SECTOR; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR POLICY; MEDICINE; MIGRANT WORKER; RECRUITMENT; SKILLED LABOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33845781642     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (22)

1. B. Birrell and A. Schwarte, 'The aftermath of Dr Death: has anything changed?', People and Place, vol. 13, no. 3, 2005;
2. B. Birrell and L. Hawthorne, 'Medicare plus and overseas-trained medical doctors', People and Place, vol. 12, no. 2, 2004
3. The details of this 'catastrophe' are explored in Birrell and Schwarte, People and Place ibid., pp. 56-57
4. J. Boutlet, J. Bede, D. McKinley and J. Norcini, 'An overview of the world's medical schools', Paper delivered at the Association for Medical Education in Europe Conference, Amsterdam, September, 2005.
5. Cited in L. Hawthorne, Labour Market for Migrant Professionals: Canada and Australia Compared, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 2006 (forthcoming)
6. Recruitment, recognition and retention of overseas trained doctors for the rural and remote medical workforce in Australia, Policy Position Paper, October 2005, ARRWAG, p. 10
7. Policy Position Paper, ibid., p. 6
8. Negotiating the maze: review of arrangements for overseas skills recognition, upgrading and licensing, Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, September 2005, p. 124
9. Negotiating the maze: review of arrangements for overseas skills recognition, upgrading and licensing, 2005, p. 124 ibid.
10. AMC, Submission to the House of Representatives Joint Standing Committee on Migration, 2006, p. 5
11. House of Representatives Joint Standing Committee on Migration, 2006, p. 5 ibid.
12. House of Representatives Joint Standing Committee on Migration, ibid., p. 7
13. Ian Frank, Transcript of Evidence 24 May 2006, p. 11
14. quoted in Negotiating the Maze, op cit, p. 124
15. Negotiating the Maze ibid., p. 9
16. Negotiating the maze, op. cit., p. 123
17. B. Birrell, L. Hawthorne and V. Rapson, The Outlook for Surgical Services in Australasia, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, 2003
18. It is difficult to provide comparable figures for 2005-06 as DIMA ceased issuing visa subclass 422 visas in that year. Doctors seeking a temporary entry (other than as Occupational Trainees) were required to use the business long stay 457 visa subclass. DIMA has also encouraged OTDs intending to come to Australia to come as Occupational Trainees under the 457 visa subclass. These OTDs were previously visaed under the Occupational Traineed (442 visa subclass). No final figures for these various groups of OTDs visaed under the 457 visa were available at the time of writing.
19. A. Jasper et al., 'The RACGP examination', Australian Family Physician, vol. 34, no. 11, November 2005, pp. 967-969
20. Occupational Trainees visaed under the 457 visa subclass in 2005-06 have not been included in this table.
21. Productivity Commission Position Paper, Australia's health workforce. Productivity Commission, 2005, p. XLV
22. AMC Media Release, 'New Screening Process for International Medical Graduates', 17 August 2006