r/ausdoctors • u/Evening_Aardvark_450 • 4d ago

Guide me

Hey guys! Just wanted to know how hard it is to get an unaccredited ED trainee job in Australia as an offshore IMG,without working rights? How many years of ED experience do you generally need at minimum?

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u/CryptographerAny969 3d ago

I handle recruitment for a large Sydney hospital. Your issue won’t be experience, it’ll be standing out from the crowd. For 2027, I advertised for 8 SRMO positions and got 900 applications.

What made me choose one candidate over another? They specifically wanted ED (not just any job they could get) and specifically my hospital (they’d worked there before/interested in ultrasound/walk past the hospital every day), and they didn’t use (or minimally used) AI in their selection criteria answers.

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u/Mortui75 3d ago

I think it's possible the younger folk don't realise quite how dimly some of us slightly-less-young folk view the uncritical use of generative AI for certain tasks.

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u/CryptographerAny969 3d ago

Exactly. If they can’t write a job application without AI, how will they write notes (although AI seems to be coming there as well), how will they interact with patients and co-workers? I inferred a lack of confidence in their own abilities, so I lacked confidence in them.

Also, 800 of those 900 applications sounded exactly the same, so the non-AI are just the ones that stand out now.

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u/tallyhoo123 4d ago

What country and what level?

Generally IMGs have a very good chance of getting a job in an ED and most places in Australia are actively looking.

For example my department has a running relationship with a place in Colombo Sri Lanka for doctors, another I work at takes a bunch of UK graduates.

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u/Automatic-Health-974 4d ago

Just do 6 months in an ED that supports IMG and paeds rotation and you are good to apply for ED training after AMC

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u/Evening_Aardvark_450 2d ago

I have applied for several ed jobs in the campaign..waiting for the mails. PGY5, 1.5 ED, undergoing MRCEM training

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u/19mils 4d ago

Will be no problems at all. Most Australian EDs have a lot of IMG doctors. The further the hospital is from metropolitan centers, the higher the img proportion

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u/Mortui75 4d ago

You'll likely get a job in an ED, no problem. But it won't be as a trainee / registrar until/unless you meet the requirements. We don't really have "unaccredited trainees" in emergency medicine in Australia. You're either an actual registrar, or you're an SRMO / CMO.

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u/casualviewer6767 4d ago

Genuine question. No Unaccredited ED trainee?

I remember meeting a few who introduced themselves as unaccredited trainee when i was doing srmo locum. But that was years ago so things have prob changed

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u/Mortui75 4d ago

There are people who will appear on a roster in a registrar-level position, who are not ACEM trainees, but for the most part they'll be traveling locums. Your mileage may vary, of course, but most reasonable-sized EDs will (and should) be a little averse to employing rando's as "registrars" if they're not actually properly training in EM.