Health ministers moves to ‘fast-track’ specialist IMGs are too fast, AMA warns
More time is needed to address concerns about the expedited pathway set to start by the end of 2024: submission.
The AMA has hit out at health ministers’ demands to fast-track specialist IMGs into the health system amid concerns their skills will not be subject to proper scrutiny.
The Medical Board of Australia is currently tasked with creating a new “expediated pathway” which will be used to import specialist gynaecologists and obstetricians, psychiatrists, GPs and anaesthetists by the end of this year.
