IMGs were once considered ‘alien invaders’: I owe my career to one of them
I’ve been pondering the hurdles that IMG doctors have faced in trying to practise in Australia. There has been a host of bureaucratic hoops to…
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Pollies betrayed rural patients with IMG policy, says former Nationals minister
Nationals-turned-independent MP Andrew Gee says the major parties sold out rural patients when they blocked debate on whether outer-urban GP practices deserved priority access to…
Medical colleges say a two-tier registration system for specialists is coming
The machinery for fast-tracking IMGs is meant to include internal wiring to ensure the medical colleges have some control over who can work as a specialist…
AHPRA fast track to specialist registration attracts its first 50 overseas doctors
Nearly 50 doctors from overseas have applied to the Medical Board of Australia’s fast-track pathway to work as specialist GPs in Australia. The controversial pathway,…
Question marks over govt’s ‘doctor every hour’ bid to fix workforce crisis
More than 8300 doctors have been added to the medical register in just 12 months amid the scramble to fix the country’s workforce crisis. Federal…
Why is this GP moonlighting as a hairdresser?
When blokes visit Dr Edier Loaiza Maya for an appointment, they leave looking a lot sharper than when they arrived. With clippers in hand, the…
Workforce crisis forces Dr Jafrin Mannan to close GP practice that was her ‘baby’
Dr Jafrin Mannan opened her GP practice a few kilometres north of Newcastle in 2019, where at its peak it cared for almost 2000 patients.…
The medical board’s new pathway for overseas specialists not being funded out of doctors’ $1000 registration fee, says AHPRA
One question raised by the creation of the Medical Board of Australia’s new fast-track pathway for specialist IMGs to work in Australia is who pays.…
Australia’s new fast-track for Kiwi GPs will ‘leave us in the lurch’, warns New Zealand’s top GP
The fast-track pathway for IMGs to work in Australia is a blow to Kiwi GPs already grappling with its own workforce shortages, the president of…
‘Health ministers have been fed something toxic’: Medical board to begin fast-tracking overseas doctors from next week
News that Australia had opened a new fast-track super-highway to import foreign specialists to fix its beleaguered health system resulted in a big exclusive for…
