In this video, I want to go over a few
of the common mistakes that I see specialists from other
countries make.
When they go through the process of applying to work
in Australia.
I'm dr.
Anthony Llewellyn, the career doctor, I'm here on YouTube to
help you manage your medical career.
So if you're watching this video, you're probably a specialist
doctor in another country.
Who's thinking about applying to work in Australia.
If so, thanks for putting your trust in me to
help you with your specialist pathway application.
I'd like to highlight that I now have a short
course on my website that you can take for free,
that will help you to better assess your preparedness and
readiness to embark on this journey.
Just go to the link in the description, the course
is called becoming a specialist in Australia, and a reminder
that there may be other ways that I can help
you out.
I've left links to these options in the description as
well, including my risk-free strategy call, which is a great
option.
If you just have a few questions or are struggling
to know how to get started with the process, finally,
I will also leave a link to a related blog
post on this topic where I'll put some links to
things like the Australian specialty college and other related documents
that you might need.
So today I wanted to go over the three key
mistakes that I see the majority of specialist IMGs ignore
to their own detriment when attempting to work in Australia.
These are mistakes that I see time after time.
And the sad thing is that it is only often
that someone comes to me late in the process to
seek help or one of these problems.
When, if they'd come to me earlier, when known about
these issues, they could have saved themselves a lot of
pine and heartache and time mistake, number one, English language
proficiency.
So the first mistake is a pretty simple one.
It's not having the right English language proficiency of blogged
and blogged on this topic quite a few times before.
So I won't give a detailed overview about English language
proficiency.
I'll leave some links in the description below.
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Suffice to say, and Australian specialty college is not going
to assess you.
If you are required to prove your English language proficiency.
Now, if you're from a country where English is the
main language like the UK or Canada or the United States,
you're probably okay, but you should always check.
But if you're from most other countries, I, India, for
example, you will need to sit one of the four
approved tests and achieve the required score.
It's vital that you do your very best on these
tests, by the way, as often, the level at which
you score will affect, whether employers are interested in interviewing
you with, for example, a candidate with an IOL score
of eight out of nine, being much more likely in
my experience to score an interview than a candidate with
the past score of seven out of nine, all other
things being equal.
If you haven't set your test and you apply to
college, your application will be rejected until such time as
you complete the test.
So this is a delay that you can avoid.
And what I generally recommend that you do is that
you prepare and sit for your English proficiency test walls
to spending all that time, pulling together all the information
required for your application, because that process usually takes a
bit of time to mistake.
Number two, not reviewing your application against the college curriculum.
In my experience, most specialist IMGs are able to navigate
to the relevant college website and read through the relevant
pages for IMGs, including finding the application guidance forms for
applying for specialist pathway.
However, there are two things most IMGs do not look
at on these websites, which are crucial to a successful
application.
The first of these other colleges, relevant training curriculum, this
is the curriculum that is set for local trainees in
Australia.
You see it's vital that you are able to demonstrate
both in your application, as well as your interview.
That you're training and experience is as close as possible
to what is it expected of a specialist in Australia
The best guide to this is what and how the
college determines its own local trainees should do.
As an example of this, if you were applying to
the Royal Australasian college of physicians as a general physician,
you would be best advised to review your application against
the RICP advanced training curriculum for general medicine and acute
care.
This document goes over in explicitly detail, what experiences and
learning outcomes Tom's local physicians are meant to go through
and how these are assessed.
This is by far the easiest way to work out
how you're training in your own country, stacks up against
a specialist here, and how to explain this training in
terms of the college will understand these documents can also
give you some hints about extra things that you could
do now, or in the short term future to increase
your chances.
For example, perhaps there is a service skill or procedure
that an Australian trainee is required to demonstrate.
Maybe you can do a course on this skill or
procedure or take a short post in a service in
your own country that performs this skill or procedure mistake,
number three, not reviewing your application against the college's professional
framework.
The third and last mistake is similar to the previous
one.
This is not taking it time to find out about
the professionals, the framework for college fellows in Australia.
Again, these frameworks are usually easily found on the websites.
The frameworks give a guide to the types of behavior
and skills that consultant is expected to demonstrate and have
and maintain in Australia.
Most of these are based upon the famous candidate's framework.
If you are aware of these frameworks, then you'll be
able to avoid a common error.
I see when reviewing applications for specialist assessment, this is
to poorly describe your consultant experience.
Remember the first thing that colleges tend to look at
is the length, and then the quality of your training
after this, if there's any doubt, which is often the
case, they wanted them to see that you're working as
a consultant in your own country, similar to how a
consultant might work in Australia.
This not only involves demonstrating the medical expertise that you
have at an independent level, but also demonstrating other things
from these competency frameworks, such manager roles and quality improvement
activities.
And of course, teaching and supervision as a rule, it
is important to document for each and every consultant job.
You have worked both the clinical responsibilities and achievements, including
the level of autonomy you worked at.
And the colleges are generally looking to see that you
were the most senior doctor responsible for your patient's care,
as well as a broad range of other skills and
achievements such as teaching and training performance, managing other people,
being responsible for quality and safety, as well as research
activities.
So there you go.
There are three key mistakes to avoid when applying for
the specialist pathway in Australia, as I said earlier in
the video I have now put together a free course,
then you could take, which will help you to understand
this pathway and your options better.
In this course, there's also a handy checklist that will
help you to make sure that this is the right
option for you.
And if so, that you're on track with your application
and you don't overlook a key element such as the
ones we talked about already.
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Bye for now.