If you're an international doctor looking to get a generalist type of job
in Australia as a trainee or Resident Medical Officer,
then there are opportunities available for you right now.
And I'm going to show you where to find them in this video.
Hello, guys, I'm Dr Anthony Llewellyn,
otherwise known as the Career Doctor on YouTube or from the AdvanceMed blog
on Facebook and LinkedIn, I help you to manage your medical career
in Australia, whether you're a locally trained doctor or perhaps one of those
doctors from overseas looking to find a position now.
I do have a strong international following
and for the last two or three months, I keep getting inquiries.
They have to me people say anything.
You tell me that at some point this year there's going to be some opportunities
for me to get a job as a trainee or Resident Medical Officer
maybe the competent authority pathway or the standard path by the AMC process
at some point, because it generally is a time towards the end of the year.
And I keep saying, look, they don't seem to be too many
opportunities right now, but give it a bit more time.
Well, in the last week or two, something very interesting has happened
and there are now definitely some job opportunities there for you.
So I'm going to show you where some of those opportunities are.
And I'm going to talk you through how you
can work out whether it's worth applying for a particular
position or not and what the magic words are.
So I encourage you to work.
What's all the way through this video?
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Again, there will be a link in the description below, but let's get into it.
So the first thing I'm going to show you here is
so this is an image I took from the New South Wales Health Medical
Jobs Board for trainee doctors about four weeks ago when I was doing some coaching
with one of my clients that uses me for coaching for jobs process.
And this was the sum total of the amount
of jobs displayed on the Giammo recruitment portal.
So you can see there were three jobs in total.
That is the lowest number of jobs I've
seen on this part of portal, I should say, in ever, really.
And it was a bit of an indication to me
that the first round of medical recruitment had been completed.
Everyone was processing there and pretty
much there was no other sort of spare jobs to be advertised.
So that was a little bit dismal at that point in time.
You can see that these jobs were sort of closing in or middle of end of September.
Now, flash forward to about two or three weeks later.
Let me show you what that portal now looks for.
So this is the same portal from three weeks ago.
You can see here 160 jobs in total.
Wow.
So what does that mean?
Well, I think a couple of things here.
So remember that if you watch some of the video as I talk about if you're
after a job as a Resident Medical Officer, which is the kind of job you need if
you're coming through the AMC standard pathway, working for general registration
or perhaps a trainee level position which might be open to someone with a bit
of experience, it's not a standard pathway or maybe for someone who's from one
of those common authority countries, UK, Ireland, Canada, US, etc.
, or perhaps someone who is very senior
looking for a position under the short term specialised medical training pathway.
Well, this is the point where you come to.
But there's usually opportunities
at the end of the annual recruitment process in Australia.
And now that process is it's a little bit
like the match in the US, but it's not really as, I guess,
coordinated as it is they may be in the US.
It's done by state and territory individually.
And in some cases the colleges,
especially training colleges, get more involved and not so,
but usually runs from about May to about around about September, October.
Every year the job ads sort of start to pop up around May, June.
New South Wales tends to be the last one to go in.
This process tends to be because it's the biggest state by population,
has the most jobs for training doctors, tends to be the last.
Now, what happened was when covid hit,
the various states and territories had to think about this.
And New South Wales worried that there'd
be delays in college processes and a few other things.
So they deliberately pushed back the date
of their recruitment by a couple of months.
So they're actually two months behind
and most of the other states and territories may be delayed by a week
or so or basically stuck to their timeframe.
So I think what's happened here, because we'll have a look at some
of the other states and territories, is that New South Wales has been left
without enough trainee doctors to fill a lot of their jobs.
So it was a wrong tactical strategic move at the end of the day,
because I've never seen that many jobs advertised on this portal ever,
except maybe actually through annual medical recruitment.
But outside of that, ever.
So you can see that if you browse through this portal,
you can look at jobs by the health service, by the facility, by specially,
if you say a common authority trainee doctor, that's useful for you.
Usually what I do is look for position title and for a lot of my candidates are
looking for a Resident Medical Officer position.
So you can see that there's seven advertized here.
You can click on that and you can sort of drill down and see what's on offer now.
I've already been through and had a look at not all of these jobs,
but if I had to look at some of the Resident Medical Officer
and the unaccredited Trinny jobs and just picked out a few to show you what I mean
in terms of whether you might be able to apply or not.
So we'll start off with some Resident Medical Officer positions.
So here's what's that's the Aamot list there again.
And here's the first one.
This one is from Coffs Harbour, mid north coast.
This is outside of Sydney.
Coffs Harbour is a city,
fairly small city, but it's a regional area on the coast of New South Wales.
But Lovely has an airport you can get easily get to Sydney, Brisbane from here.
You can say they're advertising for Resident Medical Officer.
Now, what I normally do with these jobs, particularly New South Wales,
is dead easy to skip through to the selection criteria.
Sometimes the selection criteria a bit
harder to find in other states and territories, which is a problem.
But in New South Wales, it's delays either down the bottom.
So we go down here and we see to be
eligible, this job you need a medical degree and MBBS or equipment and you need
to be currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia.
So what does that mean?
That means if you're an AMG, that job is not open to you.
You have to have registration already.
Remember to get registered as an international doctor in Australia
the first time around, you actually have to have an employment
officer say so you have to have the job first before you can apply
for registration so that one is not applicable.
But let's have a look at this other one here.
So this is the Tweed Hospital,
which is kind of it's basically Tweed and the Gold Coast border each other
on the New South Wales Queensland border, again on the coast of Queensland.
And this is a Resident Medical Officer now working in emergency medicine.
So it's focused on need. Now, a lot of you,
if you're applying for these jobs, get WIBLE and into the medical board,
says I need to do emergency medicine, general medicine, surgery.
And I think it's 48 weeks full time.
If there's a job, I always say go for it
because you can at least get part of that experience accredited.
And if you do well enough, though, usually the hospital usually try and get
you the other terms and rotations you need, or you may be able to get a job
elsewhere because you've proven you can work in Australia.
So anyway, this is at the Tweed Hospital, Resident Medical Officer.
We sit down to the bottom here and here we are.
The magic words, MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible
for registration in the Medical Board of Australia.
So that means that an international medical who could apply for this job.
However, we have to dig into a bit
of detail here because they didn't say they want an Australian three or
equivalent as determined by the enormously competent authority pathway with relevant
experience in kind of critical care tort medicine.
So what does that mean?
It probably means that they're not after
an army doctor coming through the standard pathway.
But I think if you a fairly senior
and you've recently passed the M.S. one and possibly Part two and have some
emergency skills, you might still want to hit them up because they have taken
I've helped some doctors and we did
a video with one recently on the workshop website about her experience
from non-combatant authority countries to this particular health service.
But it would definitely mean that if you
safe from the UK and you've worked for three years and you've got some
of that experience, they would be open to having an application for you.
Now, remember, that's on the eastern coast of Australia, just south of Brisbane.
It's not a not a bad place to go.
You don't have to necessarily go
completely rural in Australia, get your first job.
So there's an opportunity.
Let's look at this next one.
So I think that was the only RMI level.
One might go back here
and we just quickly checked through the rest of them.
So mid north coast
West made check that one,
St Vincent's won't be Murrumbidgee because that's in rural Concord.
Won't be nor will RPI.
But let's just have a look at the Westmead
one, and I have to be registered for that one.
You have to have twelve months experience as a medical officer, not observer.
Ah, and Miramichi around Griffith
again have to have car registration. So that's interesting.
I would have thought they would have in a place like that, they would probably
need to be thinking about going for an IMC.
Can I say you might want to just keep watching that.
So that's the Resident Medical Officer one.
So I did also look at unaccredited trainees and you probably
want to go back and also look at senior residents as well as worth having a look
at before they sort of standard pathway jobs.
But if we had a look at the unaccredited
trainees that picked out a few and there are quite a few, I think,
and I didn't look through all of them as 41 in total.
So we probably have to go through yourself.
Here's one in western Sydney and obstetrics and gynecology.
This seems to be a lot of need for our energy doctors at the moment.
And again, MBAs or equivalent currently registered or eligible.
And you do need to have three years plus
greater experience and some experience in LNG.
But if you're an army that is maybe even
completed your LNG training, you've done the AMC pathway,
the certificate, part one, then you would be eligible for that.
And equally, if you're from the common authority.
Countries like the UK, Obstetrics and Gynecology, China.
Well, that would be perfect for you, wouldn't it?
Or the US or Ireland, etc. .
Here's another one again, back at the Northern District where
Tweedy's environ barns a nice place on the coast.
And this is an emergency medicine for non
accredited training eligible for registration.
Now, this time, they again,
they look like they're going for a competent authority doctor.
So someone from Canada, Ireland, the US, UK, etc.
with significant aid experience.
But they got another opportunity for you
if you wanted to get away from the northern hemisphere at the moment.
And here's another one, Grafton's same health district.
It's a rural, sort of rural regional district this northern New South Wales.
So they sometimes struggle to get enough doctors.
And again, oh, I'm sorry, this one, you do have to be registered.
So that shows you the distinction. I don't know.
I still had that one that he's on and we'll know,
which is just south of Sydney in cardiology for non accredited training.
And this might well get soaked up by a local trainee.
But you can see, again, currently registered or eligible
for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
Now, I do want completion of FRSC people
one, but that's like or eligible for registration.
So I think this one might be if you're clear with them and you contact this
person, say you have done your cardiology training overseas.
Anyone, any one of those two year time
limited to a short term special specialist medical training pathway registrations got
a lot of cardiology experience and you're pitching yourself in that way.
They may well be keen to offer you a position.
So I would have a look of that.
Is another one in emergency medicine in Sydney, Camden and Campbelltown
hospitals, south west Sydney eligible for registration here.
They want at least two postgraduate years
and experience in the day, but that one may well suit an AMC pathway,
standard pathway, a doctor or even a competent authority pathway doctor.
Definitely worth a look in another one from mid north coast.
You know, and gee, I remember saying they
seem to be having a dearth of aging trainees at the moment.
Again, all eligible for registration in this case, even though it's in the same
district that was after competent authority.
And I don't seem to be knocking people out
on the basis of competent authority this time around.
So you probably want some orange
experience, but that one might be suitable again four times the standard pathway.
Doctor, No.
One in general medicine back in Shellharbour, which is near Wollongong
in New South Wales, eligible for registration and no other
sort of, well, minimum two years of experience,
which I don't know what the minimum to experience doesn't translate to outcomes.
I should should be something slightly
different in terms of the, you know, the ability to do the work.
But that's may just give you my high horse.
But anyway, anyone that would be
one that I am sorry doctor could probably apply for.
And then finally, mid north coast Kempsey emergency medicine,
again eligible for registration needs, two years postgraduate experience.
So lots of opportunities there suddenly now.
And as I said, having gone through all
the unaccredited training is all there is, Eremos or some of the other ones.
So you may find some other opportunities amongst those 160.
If you do not clear.
Let me a comment below.
Please provide the link so I can go and look at it,
because I don't want to go through 160 job
titles just to find the one you're referring to.
Yes.
So if got any confusion, leave a comment below for me.
Now, remember, just there's a Segway.
People sort of often interested in salaries and what you earn for this job.
So we do have a recent blog post on the AdvanceMed blog.
We can check that out. And it does differ from state to tier,
if you were an intern, resident registrar, etc.
, which is the trainee doctor.
Erm so that gives you a bit of info about that.
But you're probably asking what about other states and territories.
Well I didn't have a look through Queensland.
There were a few jobs advertised, not any that I found that we're going to accept.
And I am gee I didn't actually find any in Queensland, nor did I find any way
in the same CV which is Victorian, won the match, didn't seem to have
any current sort of resident level matches available.
But particularly with Victoria, you've got to look at the local hospitals
themselves because they often advertise individually for a lot of jobs.
So there wasn't much there.
W.A. Oh sorry, South Australian healthcare and I didn't find much.
Most of these jobs are consultant level, so there wasn't really much there.
But another place that you can look is
this WA again, there wasn't anything about 24 jobs and there weren't any that I
identified that would have been okay for and AMG.
But another place you can go, somebody work.
I recommend indeed I find it a bit clunky,
but seke I think is a good aggregation site.
You can say if you put in health care,
medical and residents and registrars, 116 jobs advertised.
So this is like an aggregation site
for all of Australia and not pick up all the jobs advertised 116.
So obviously not picking up all the New South Wales ones, for example.
But I do tend to pick up a.
Are you from around the traps and there are a couple that I found
like this one in central Queensland, which if you
click on apply for this job,
you get taken through to the the website and then you can get a roll description.
So this one,
that's maybe possible because you have to have a degree to enable registration.
And it is in Rockhampton.
So it's it's regional.
So they may well be looking for some additional images to top up their roster.
And there's nothing else that says you can't be an orange.
So you might want to consider that.
But another one that pops up regularly is
Northern Territory and they are definitely advertising for Resident Medical Officer
as you look at the job description here, which we have.
Again, it's got these magic words,
ability to obtain registration prior to commencing a position and all else you
need is completion of a medical internship with a relevant institution.
So, again, that well may be one that is open to all applicants.
So that's a quick sort of synopsis of where the opportunities are.
Remember, the key thing you're looking
for, there is some words to the effect or eligible for registration.
There may be some doubts.
If so, contact the person nominated on the job.
Yeah, if you come across the position you're not sure of and you want to get
my intake on it, please put the link in the description
below and a comment and I'll try and have a look at it as quickly as possible.
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