Are you worried that medical internship recruitment is going to
be disrupted in 2020?Well, there's some good news for
you in his next video.
so just finish putting the final touches on my medical
internship update for 20 2021 and the good news is
that despite the whole covert 19 situation internship around Australia
gets on schedule with applications being open on may the
fourth so in this video I'm going to cover for
you a number of things about the Australia internship process
for 20 2021 firstly, I'll cover the key things that
you need to know about the process.
I'll talk about the key dates that you need to
be aware of as well as some of the fun
facts about the internship in Australia and some things that
you might need to take into account with the whole
covert 19 theme.
Finally, we'll round out with some of the common questions
that I hear about internship in Australia.
So as I say, the good news is that applications
for medical internship are going to be open as scheduled
or by the fourth.
The whole internal recruitment process is a massive endeavor that's
coordinated between the eight States and territories with a set
of common dates are intended to ensure that the process
runs smoothly.
The other good news is that the Australian medical council,
which is the authority that governs medical schools in Australia
and the medical board have both made some reassuring announcements
in the last few weeks.
Firstly, about how the current interns will be assisted to
progress towards general registration this year, which is an important because
we have to move the current interns through to enable
new interns to come in as well as how medical
schools will be allowed some flexibility to ensure that following
you medical students can graduate on time and take up
an internship in 2021 I'll leave a link to the
document from the medical board below as well as several
other links to some key videos and blog posts that
will help you with this whole internship application process.
So for 2021 we expect around 3,600 internships to be
offered in Australia with 50 being on offer in the
Northern territory all the way up to new South Wales, which
has Willow truly pushed past the 1000 Mark with 1039
posts on offer this year.
Now bear in mind that these are the best figures
based on what is known now in April and they're
generally subject to change.
Normally that might go up a little bit as the year
goes on and hospitals put in additional requests for extra
interns, key dates, so the first key dates that you
really need to be aware of, the 4th of May, 2020 when intern
applications open for all States and territories and the 4th of June, 2020
when they close.
Now you must get your application in by this date
of 4th of June.
There's generally no allowance for a late application in any
state or territory and it's not just a case of
putting it all together on the day.
Even if you're already applying to one jurisdiction, it's likely
that you're going to need a couple of documents and
some other things in order to complete the application, so
don't leave it to the last minute more or less a bit
later.
The next day is the 13th of July, 2020 which is where the first lot
of offers come out.
Usually starting with some of the strategic internship positions such
as the Aboriginal internships in new South Wales and rurally internships
in a number of States and territories.
Towards the end of this, the first lot of main round offers come
out, by which point most of the internship positions in
the system have been offered to those city highest on
the priority list and you're probably observing that the dates
are aligned across the country and there's a reason for
this.
The reason that the dates are aligned is that for
some years now there has been an agreement amongst the States
and territories and the Commonwealth government to coordinate the internship
process in order to provide a guarantee of internship for
the domestic medical graduates.
The aligning of the diets helps with this process and
facilitate something called the national internal audit, which is a
process that basically shows that medical students aren't holding onto
multiple offers at the same time and they delight in
the whole process.
So some things that you are going to need in
order to apply are as follows.
Firstly, you will need your medical intern placement number.
The IPN is a unique nine digit number which has
been generated by opera and has been provided to medical
schools for distribution to funnel your medical students.
The number is used as part of that national audit
prices I mentioned and the IBN number is not the
same number as your oper registration number or your student
university number.
If you've not received your IPN, you should check with
the medical school as you'll probably need it.
Also, the majority of States and territories require you to
upload an academic transcript as proof that you're indeed medical
students, but also request evidence that you satisfactory make all
the medical board requirements including the English language requirements.
This might seem a bit ridiculous given that you've been
attending medical school in English for the last four or
five years, but it is the law, so check whether
you may need to submit an UpToDate English test result
or some other form of documentary evidence of your natural
English such as a high school certificate.
My States and territories will also request a CV.
Your resume for you for tips on resumes, see the
blog post in the link in the description below it
as well as the video series that I've just started
about medical student resumes.
Some States and territories have a template for CVS that
they suggest you use or in some cases require you
to use.
To be honest, these templates are pretty poor in the
mind and I wouldn't recommend using them.
If you have to, and if you're thinking about developing
a resume for your future career, then now's a really
good time to be designing your own resume.
The risk of using a template is that you don't
stand out from other candidates.
You also need to provide things like proof of your
identity, citizenship, residency, visa, and if you've had something like
a name change along the way, you'll have to provide
evidence about that as well.
The state and territory bodies who administer the intense application
process have a responsibility to ensure that you are eligible
to apply for provisional registration at the end of the year in order to
work as an intern.
They collect all this information to check everything is in
order so that you are indeed eligible to apply.
Employers can get rightly annoyed when told that someone who
has been given an offer is ready, but then they
spend a few more months fixing up an English test or something like
that.
However, it is ultimately your responsibility to ensure that you
are eligible for registration and this continues through the rest
of your careers and doctor, so you should also be
checking these things yourself.
Now in time to fathom, given the amount of communication
from health departments, medical schools, and student colleagues and vloggers,
but year there are a handful of medical students who
do forget to apply for their internship.
This means having to wait another year.
Don't let that be you.
There are even more students who do leave their application
at the last minute only to find out that they are missing
a vital document and then get a real panic trying
to locate him.
So here's what I suggest you do.
As soon as the application page opens for each state
and territory that you're going to apply to, make sure
you register and then goes back through the process for
applying as possible.
So you can see if there are some sort of
documents you need to attain or questions that you can't
answer it right now.
It's also important to know where you sit in the
priority list.
Each state and territory has a slightly different order for
clarity, but it hasn't.
He goes something like this.
If you're an Australian citizen or permanent resident and went
to medical school and that state or territory, you are
top of the list.
If you're an Australian citizen or permanent resident and went
to a medical school in another state or territory or
New Zealand, you'll probably second.
If you're an international student who studied medicine in Australia,
you're probably next and then other applicants come in the
order below that.
Now there are parties within priorities and some States and
territories also have priority pathways to ensure that groups such
as Aboriginal and Torres Strait, all it is and doctors
who wish to work in rural or regional areas can
be offered their preference placement early.
So a big tip is that if you're an international
student and like the idea of working rurally, it's probably
a good idea to consider rural pathway as it will
likely boost your chances of obtaining an interim position offer
earlier in the process.
And then you don't have to worry once you have
your application in.
For most medical students is a bit of a waiting
game to find out an offer.
But for some in States like Victoria, Queensland or the
Casey new South Wales rural preferential recruitment process, you may be
conducting a number of interviews with hospitals across a short
period of time.
I guess for those of you who are in front
North America, this is as close as we get to
the map system.
Now if you're one of the many students who do
need on to take an interview for your internship, the
chances are that this year it's not going to happen face
to face and it's not as likely there'd be a
video interview.
Now this can be a little bit better cause he's
not not having to travel long distances to get to
different hospitals, but there is a lot more than you
think to video interviewing.
So for a rundown on this checkout, the rest of
the video idea about how to ice the video interview.
So have you ever been deciding where you want to
work as an intern Well there are lots of considerations
when it comes to putting in your application for internship.
Everyone's a bit different.
Some graduates feel like they would like to be close
to home and family to help with the transition, I
would say is a chance to get away and explore
a new place in a location and then others are
already focusing on the longterm career prospects of certain locations.
I think this last piece is a little bit overrided
because generally speaking, as an intern you have to work
in a range of terms and you're not really getting
exposed to many sub specialty areas.
That being said, if you do have an interest in
something other than medicine, surgery or emergency medicine as a
future career, you should probably investigate whether this particular specialty
is offered at the hospitals or networks that you applied
to.
So for example, if you really did set keen on
doing radiology as a career, you should try to track
the very few locations that might offer this option to
either.
In terms of residents.
One thing you might want to also take into account
is the fact that pyrites we interns vary quite considerably
across the country, but the annual salary of a new
South Wales intern being only 69,000 compared to $79,000 salary annually
for a Victorian in in 2021 also the rates of
pay for the various Massina grades of hospital doctors do
vary as well as well as do some of the
other conditions like whether you get leave for professional development
or even a fund for professional development.
So it's definitely worth taking this into consideration.
Finally, each year the Australian medical student association produces a very
useful intern guy with lots of information about the composition
of the intern training networks across the country.
We're currently waiting on the 2020 version, but I'll leave
a link in the description to the 2019 version.
So finally, throughout route out with some of the common
questions I get about the internship, the first one is
about special circumstances.
What have I have special circumstances, which might make it
hard for me to work in certain places.
Well.
The answer is that all States and territories do have
processes for considering special circumstances, some of the types of
circumstances that are generally approved or things like where you
may have certain health conditions that mean you need to
be close to a certain hospitals specialist or where you
have dependents such as young children prior to school age
and relocate.
You care Rangers generally request to stay in certain locations
for reasons such as work commitments partners.
Unless that partner is a doctor and wants to work
in the same place as you or the needs of
school aged children are not granted.
The next question is about deferring your intern offer.
Is it possible to defer an intern offer Well, the
answer to this will partly depend on how long you
wish to defer for.
If you just wish to defer for a couple of weeks at the start of the year,
it might be possible to negotiate this with your future
employer.
However, if you want to take the better part of
a year off, then it's going to be a lot different
and you'll need to check the policy of the state
or territory that has provided you an intern or in
some cases, for example, in Victoria you will be committed
to differ and your place will be whatever for you,
but in most other cases you will need to reapply
the following year and you should check whether your priority status will
alter.
In most cases it works.
Also bear in mind that it's really unclear how long
you can defer comments in your internship, but the medical
board of Australia does expect that once you start internship
that you will have completed this process within three years
time.
So what if you're adopted from a country outside of
Australia where you've done your medical degree outside of Australia,
can you apply for an internship Look, this is possibly
the most frequent question I'm asked on this blog and
on my blog and in my career as a career
doctor.
And the answer is unless you obtain your medical degree
from a New Zealand medical school, then the short answer this
question is no, and I'd love to stop there and
I really think you should as well, but there are
rare circumstances where you might just be able to obtain
an internship when you have a medical degree degree out
of Australia.
The medical board strongly advises against this option and for
good reasons because the whole Australian medical internship system is
designed to ensure that Australian medical graduates are given a
provisional year in the system and it's not designed around
the needs of international graduates.
There are other pathways for international redness.
So as a result of this, it is still very
rare to be offered a chance.
And if a certain state or territory does offer the
option, you'll notice that it's the lowest only priority list.
So there's absolutely no guarantee.
Some States and territories will not even consider an application
from an IMG.
And as I said, others will only do so in
limited circumstances and as the last party, but being the
Northern territory, South Australia and Queensland.
Finally, is it possible to miss out on internship But
the answer to this question is that whilst it is
theoretically possible for some medical graduates to miss out in
internship, either the ones that are guaranteed that the international
students who come to do medical school here in Australia,
all the evidence for the last eight, nine, 10 years
shows that no one has truly missed out on an
internship offer if they've remained in the process for long
enough.
Also, bear in mind that the Commonwealth has stepped in
in the last few years and provided additional internship positions to help with
the situation around medical students from other countries completing internship.
So was only Australian citizens in post residency guaranteed an
interim position under the agreement between all the state, territory
and federal government.
There are generally enough interim positions available for those students
who have come to Australia to study here.
And as I said, the additional interim positions offered by
the Commonwealth tends to provide enough, excess jobs for the
rest.
It's also clear though, that many graduates do choose to
drop out of the application process themselves.
So not everyone who applies gets an offer at the end of the day.
The assumption is that some graduates take up simmer intern
opportunities in other countries upon very duration.
So there you go.
There's the Roundup of internship for Australia for the 2020
application year for 2021 positions.
As I said, as more information comes to light, I'll
be updating the related blog post on this, particularly around
increases in numbers or anything that might change because of
the COBIT 19 situation.
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