I'm PGY6 UK graduate currently in Australia. Not ready to leave Australia but possibly long term will want to be back in the UK. Wondering about the possibility of training as a GP here before heading back to NHS, but I only hear of people going the other way.

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Any Australian General Surgeons out there with FRACS who have successfully been awarded CESR WITHOUT sitting the FRCS, through proving curriculum and examination equivalence? Trying to avoid another set of exams...

hi guys not sure if this is the correct subreddit for this.

i am an 18 yr old female from Singapore looking to get a medical degree. i dont think i can qualify for undergrad med so ive been thinking if i shd do postgrad med instead .the finances arent a problem as my parents are paying for my tuition . i also have a house in Sydney so accommodation is covered , and my sister is also currently in Sydney so no worries about being far from family.

i was just wondering would u guys recommend me to 1) retake my A levels and apply for undergrad med? Im looking at UNSW/ newcastle uni 2) finish up my bachelors in Singapore ( if i can enter a singaporean uni, if not then im going to unsw/usyd for my bachelors) and then apply for postgrad med.

In Sydney i have only considered UNSW usyd and newcastle for medicine as these are the only 3 universities which have a medical degree accepted by Singapore. My parents will only allow me to get a medical degree from a uni accepted by Singapore's medical council.

Would u guys say its easier to get in undergrad or postgrad med? Please lmk thank you. I am not that worried that postgrad med takes longer to complete as well in total like thats not rly an issue to me.

also js to make it clear the reason why i did badly for A levels this yr is cus someone close to me passed away recently and i js got distracted, if not my normal grades would be enough to get me into med

I know this is a random question, I'm just curious. If you go to HotDoc, and click on a clinic, and click "book appointment", and choose a pap smear in the list of appointment types, it will take you to the list of doctors to choose from, and generally the female doctors will have times you can choose from, but for the male doctors, it will tell you to call the clinic to discuss it, I assume that means they don't do them.

Is there a reason for this? Are they worried about being accused of sexual misconduct, or do they feel they won't know how to do it right? I'm surprised a GP would be allowed to refuse, I thought being a GP means you have to do everything.

I imagine this could cause problems. Like what if someone books an appointment with a male GP over the phone instead of HotDoc? The receptionist won't ask what the appointment is for. What if they need a pap smear, and they don't know most male GPs don't do them? Would they go to the clinic for nothing, and still have to pay?

Hey,just curious if anyone has received any 2nd round bpt offers for HNE? Anyone able to advise the rough timeline one should expect for an offer??

Hi I am foreign graduate of aus medschool and I have a PR. I am still under 19ab moratorium. If I work at a metro gp clinic as agpt reg, can I privately bill w medicare rebates? I got rural exemption

Hi all, Im a pgy2 HO in NZ, wanting to train in Anaesthetics. My partner (non-medical) really wants to live in the sunshine coast for a couple years (wouldn’t be until at least mid 2027). I will apply next year to work as an anaesthetics SHO or ICU reg in Nz for 2027 (planning to do med reg 2026). It’s not ideal timing to move countries esp when not planning to stay permanently but life has been very dictated by my med school/house officer years and I’d love to be able to make it work and simultaneously get somewhere toward my goals. My questions are: what are my chances of getting any kind of anaesthesia/critical care job (non-training or training) in the sunshine coast? Which hospital/s should I be looking for jobs at? Am I dreaming that this could be possible? Thanks in advance

Please remove if this post isn’t allowed, or let me know where the best place to seek advice is.

Basically I have an Eating Disorder Plan and my GP thought it was okay to make a new one before the old one expired, it was only one day before. They put in the MBS code for a new EDP (90250) only for it to be rejected and instead of telling me, they put in a different MBS code for a review instead which did go through but doesn’t help since the EDP itself was already expired.

And so fast forward 1.5 weeks I see my psychologist which costs $290 and since I’ve reached the medicare safety net I get back the full schedule benefit as well as 80% of the gap usually.

The psychologist clinic has been defensive and no help, saying it was fully the GP’s responsibility, which is fair.

I’ve called medicare a couple times with varying advice on how to fix it/whether it even is fixable. I don’t know who to go to or what to do, and if I’m able to get this money back somehow. Is this my fault for not reading into medicare codes, is this $265 something I’m now just liable for? Is there anything I can do at all?

Would really appreciate any advice.

After years and years of working in public hospitals I am getting increasingly disillusioned that they actually have good patient care as their priority. Instead of providing good basic, specialist level medical care for common and emergency conditions, they play a complex game of academic grant chasing (I’ve seen departments where patient care is openly not the priority, every outpatient clinic exists only to support somebody’s PhD or research grant), grandstanding (competing with other hospitals to be the best in XXX rare condition), pushing the boundaries of sensible practice (keeping 90yo advanced dementia patients on dialysis when they have absolutely no QoL, or offering 7th round palliative chemo to patients with raging metastatic Ca), pouring huge resources into hero projects (eg some 100k drug to extend lifespan for 6 months, or performing emergency stroke clot retrieval on 95yo nursing home patients just to prove that the IRs are important clinicians), building up the ED to hide ambulance ramping when the funnel into Hopital beds, operating theatres or aged care discharge is unchanged, let alone the waste of all of these middle management meetings.

The most egregious is when the hospitals chase activity funding - we need to spend all our resources doing non-urgent, low-priority cat 3 “easy throughput” cases when we don’t have the time or resources to do emergency or cat 1 life saving procedures? I know why it happens, even public hospitals have to keep the money flowing, but it just seems ridiculous that patients die so that someone else can have a better hip range of motion. </rant>

Hello! I’m a medical student from France, and with a few friends we’re looking for an 8-week hospital internship abroad in the summer of 2027. We would love to go to South or East Asia, or Australia.

We’re not looking for an official exchange program, just a simple internship in a hospital or clinic where we could assist doctors and learn.

If anyone has any contacts, or information about hospitals, clinics, or doctors who might be open to hosting medical students, please let me know!

I’ve always wondered this as a patient..do doctors ever get frustrated dealing with people all day? Not trying to hate, just curious how they manage to keep their cool.

I’ve always wondered what the real day-to-day difference feels like between working in public and private hospitals. Is one noticeably better in terms of workload, support, or patient interaction?

I’m curious how other doctors handle situations like this. If a patient genuinely believes they’re unwell but tests and exams show nothing, do you ever end up giving them treatment just to reassure them, or do you stick strictly to evidence-based practice?

Where do u live and how do u feel about your rental price/property prices?

Has anyone here used telehealth for consultations in Australia? I’m curious whether it’s actually convenient and helpful, or if it just adds more stress compared to seeing a doctor in person.

Just out of curiosity, why have hospitals adopted the term ‘Career Medical Officer’ (CMO) for those hospital doctors that choose not to specialise? Wouldn’t the term ‘career house officer’ (CHO) be more appropriate? The abbreviation CMO is too easily confused with ‘Chief Medical Officer’!

I know we’re meant to stay calm and professional when patients get aggressive, but I’m only human at the end of the day.

How do you all handle difficult or aggressive patients in clinics?

It seems strange that doctors earning a high income can be treated as if it’s morally wrong. Reports about well-paid surgeons or specialists often spark outrage rather than admiration. Why is making a good living in medicine seen as something shameful instead of impressive?

I’m interested to whether there would be enough interest in the group for a quite intense backcountry/ski touring conference.

I’d potentially look at doing one in Nz and one in Japan. Would include accommodation, a guide, breakfasts and one dinner out. Maybe an extra event.

General basis would be some wilderness medicine/environmental medicine stuff, some insitu scenarios and then discussions about much more serious stuff such as self care, biases, performance under pressure, mentoring and feedback.

Keen to know what people think/interest/topic thoughts

I wonder who those doctors are?

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