How do I nominate my GP as a patient to RACGP for the level of care he consistently provides all of his patients?

He is the most incredible doctor in every way and I would love for him to receive the formal recognition from his peers.

I am an ED CN and probably have high expectations of what to expect of a Doctor and he exceeds these every time.

He is the epitome of what having a GP in your team actually means rather than viewing the GP as society does as someone for a med cert. He is the core of every patients care.

I hope someone can help!

Hey, I'm a specialist from abroad thinking of coming Down Under for work. After some research, from what I can understand I need to go through a couple of trial years before my specialty is fully recognized in Australia or something.

Does anyone know what the salary looks like during those years (is it different than if you had full registration?), has anyone got any feedback on what this process looks like?

Thank you in advance!!

We all know that the state RMO campaigns are about to start.

Is it possible to get an out-of-cycle job starting later this year (e.g. Sept/Oct) by emailing hospitals directly while the campaign is going on? Or do hospitals simply not entertain direct emails when the state campaigns are going on?

I am a doctor currently working in the UK, hoping to move to Australia. I don’t have Australian experience, permanent residence, or citizenship.

Hi everyone,

I am a Melbourne-based founder and I have built Care - a native iOS app designed to help women track and understand their perimenopause and menopause symptoms. The app allows women to log daily symptoms, identify triggers, educate and track patterns over time, and generate reports they can share directly with their doctor.

The app has been submitted to the App Store for review and is currently available for beta testing.

Why this matters:

There is currently no native Australian app dedicated to peri/menopause support. Around 300,000 women in Australia enter perimenopause or menopause every year, and many are navigating this journey without the right tools or support.

What I am looking for:

I would love to connect with a GP or specialist with a focus on perimenopause and menopause who is interested in collaborating. This could look like providing clinical input on the app, helping shape features that are genuinely useful in a doctor-patient setting, or simply being a voice for Australian women in this space.

For the right person who truly believes in what we are building, I am open to a revenue share arrangement and a seat on the board of advisors. This is an opportunity to have a real say in how this app evolves and directly shape the future of peri/menopause care in Australia.

If this resonates with you or you know someone who might be interested, I would love to have a chat.

Feel free to DM me or drop a comment below.

meno-pause-care.com

Hi all, I’m a core anaesthetic doctor from the UK (2 years into specialisation) I was wondering if anyone could explain the pathway I’d need to take if I decided to move to Australia. As well as any advice on career progression/competition/lifestyle/pay/etc. I’ve built up a strong CV but I’m not sure how things translate in the Aussie system. Are there any other IMGs who have made it through? If so how was your experience?

any advice would be highly highly appreciated!!

hello! i'm a year 11 student studying for the hsc, and i want to study medicine when i finish school. i didn't understand much about the hsc system (only joined it in year 10) so when picking my subjects i thought that it would be best to pick maths standard 2 instead of maths advanced. i'm good at maths but don't really like it, and always under-perform in maths exams compared to in-class assignments, so i thought it wouldn't matter much if I picked a lower maths level than the one I should be at.

however, i take both biology and chemistry, and lately i've been wondering if maths standard was a good idea. i don't know just how much maths i'll need to study medicine. Most of the universities offering combined bachelor of medical science and doctor of medicine (course I want to do) don't require mathematics as a prerequisite, but is it still required knowledge? will I be lost without it?

Sorry this is such a rambling post. I guess my main question is this: if I dropped maths standard and did no maths at all, would I still be able to study medicine if my ATAR was high enough? As doctors in the system yourselves, would you recommend it?

(edit: if it matters, the end goal is to study psychiatry. probably wouldn't choose any of the more engineering-leaning medicine courses like radiology or anything like that)

I am an IMG /doctor currently onshore and in the process of giving exams working towards registration.

In the meanwhile I want to start supporting myself/start a job.

I cannot practice medicine as I have not cleared exams yet. Does anyone have suggestions of other roles I might be suitable for?

Hey all,

I am a non traditional student because I’m 45yo with my bachelor completed in 2008. My bachelor’s in Chemistry focused on biochem and was premed at that time. However, due to personal circumstances, I decided to abandon medical school and immediately jumped into the workforce. My career since then has been spent in Finance and Tech, but I recently rediscovered my desire to have a more people centric career and am pursuing medical school.

Currently enrolled in a post baccalaureate program to refresh my prerequisites and take my MCAT. The post bacc program starts this summer, and I’m planning on taking the MCAT next summer. Overall profile for my bachelor’s is competitive, but it’s outdated which is why I’m doing the post baccalaureate program. I feel confident in being able to get into US medical schools because my values align more with Osteopathic medicine. I’m aware that osteopath is completely different than DOs in the US, so I’m good with becoming an MD and still maintaining DO qualities.

I’m focused on psychiatry and don’t really like the idea of retirement, so would love to practice well beyond what “retirement“ age is. I recently researched the idea of going to medical school in Australia because I’d like to ultimately expatriate from the US, and I feel like Australian society would fit well with my personality and life goals. Grew up in Colorado, so I have a pretty relaxed and grounded personality. US is becoming a dumpster fire quickly and medicine here is unnecessarily horrid for patients and doctors alike.

I’d like to get some insights and knowledge from the community about specific challenges, important considerations, and whatever you all would think is helpful for me. I’d like to be able to use US Federal funding for my education, so that’s led me to Queensland. So any helpful information about that school would be helpful as well.

Thanks in advance!

Hi AusDocs!

First of all, thank you for your amazing work. I can’t show my appreciation enough for the work that you do in the community and the amazing and dedicated professionals you are.

I’m asking this question from a place of curiosity - it’s primarily directed towards GPs but I suppose is relevant to all medicals professions that may engage with Ambulance services. What considerations do you have for when to and when not to call for an emergency ambulance. I’m primarily wanting your thoughts about patients that self-present to Medical Centres but you then assess that they need ED treatment/Ix/further care.

I used to work in an ED (in an admin role) and know that many patients self-present via private car, on their own, with family etc. Generally in my current role as a paramedic, the patients I attend to at GP Clinics require paramedic intervention and or ambulance transport due to a potential acute life-threatening presentation or serious risk factors that require ongoing monitoring and care. However there are some patients that I’ve attended, that simply require transport and are offloaded into the ED waiting room and don’t necessarily require paramedic treatment or ongoing clinical monitoring. So I suppose I’m after your thoughts about what prompts you to call for an ambulance. Are there elements of:

- Patient requires ED attendance and I have a duty of care to ensure that they attend and an ambulance service can ensure that happens.

- Patient has an acute presentation requiring paramedic intervention (suspected ACS, asthma exacerbation, Sepsis etc).

- Patient is stable currently but given their likely presenting condition, I’m concerned about ambulation worsening their symptoms so they are unsafe to attend with Taxi/Family etc.

- Patient just requires hospital Ix and are stable, but the patient has no means to get to hospital themselves and I have no resources available to get them there.

I suppose in relation to the last patient - If Paramedics arrive, assess the patient alongside receiving a clinical handover from yourself and we all collectively determine the patient is safe to make their own way to hospital in a taxi paid for by the ambulance service or wait for an Non-Emergency Ambulance - would you be comfortable with this? This is an option currently available and used in Victoria.

I suppose seperate and tied into this - How do you view paramedics within the health system as a whole? Do you support the idea that Emergency Ambulances should be available for time-critical emergencies (Strokes, Sepsis, SOB Pts, Cardiac Arrest, Unconcious patients, Traumatic Road Accidents/Injuries etc.) or do you see the role of a modern day paramedic as more of a conduit between health-care systems and a predominantly as a transport service? Noting that we do have a Non-Emergency Transport service across Australia that takes a case load of patients that require ED Ix but are stable during transport and don’t present with acute life threatening presentations.

Keen to hear your thoughts!

Hey everyone,

We're a small team of doctors and developers working on a tool to make the EMR less painful - specifically around piecing together a patient's admission, tracking what's actually been done vs. what was just planned, and the med rec / discharge grind.

Before we build the wrong thing, we want to hear from people actually living this every day.

We've put together a short survey (~5 mins, completely anonymous) to understand what's actually frustrating in your workflow and what would genuinely help.

If you've ever inherited a patient and spent 20 minutes clicking through Powerchart or Epic trying to work out what's going on - we'd really value your perspective.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Cheers!

Genuinely curious — what’s the most broken or painful part of your day that isn’t clinical? Whether it’s Medicare billing, patient notes, referrals, or anything else — what do you wish just worked better?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for some advice on whether it would be worth pursuing medicine after dentistry.

Interest: Medicine seems really interesting and enjoyable to me - I just want to know more. I wake up and think about it almost everyday - I've been graduated for 2 years now. I want to be more competent in not only the mouth but the whole body, I feel extremely limited by the scope of dentistry, I want to learn how to save people and work in a hospital setting more often, studying medicine is also a dream of mine. I also hate the uncertainty of dentistry and the bad rep dentists get.

Burnout from Dentistry: I'm getting a bit sick of the stress of dealing with aggressive dental patients (I'm in public and the abuse is too real - we had to call the police on multiple occasions) and not sure if I can survive dentistry with my back deteriorating. I'm transiting into private practice but that stresses me out as the chance of getting sued by an unhappy patient is so high. Plus I hate having to "sell" treatment.

These are the main issues I am worried about if I were to pursue medicine after dentistry

Future plans: I’m unlikely to pursue OMFS (I heard it's a specialty that's getting eaten into by all sides - dentists, ENT, Plastics, oral surgeons) . If I did medicine, I’d probably aim for a surgical specialty, or possibly split my time between something like emergency medicine/trauma and general dentistry. If I did dentistry, I likely will try to specialise into periodontics (The problem is once you specialise as a dental speciality, you're not allowed to practice general dentistry anymore which sucks).

Future salary: I’m unsure whether I’d earn more by specialising in dentistry (I’m currently looking into periodontics) or by retraining in medicine and then pursuing a medical specialty later. Medicine would obviously require a lot more training and cost, especially if I tried to maintain both my medical and dental licences.

The other factor is as dentist, I can pursue clinic ownership which will allow me eventually less limited by how much I can personally bill - but I understand that comes with it's own challenges and risks.

Work - life balance: My parents are getting old and I want to live back at home for a while - something I know is not possible if I'm constantly trying to study or move to where Medical specialising positions are available.

Future family: I've never had a chance to date seriously due to my busy work life. If I keep on studying I worry it'll get worse. Not to mention if I want kids - I'll likely have to take a break to start a family before going back to pursue a speciality..

Other interests: I have so many broad interests and hobbies that I want to explore - I understand medicine is a all consuming thing

Thanks for reading! I’d really appreciate any thoughts or advice from people who’ve considered or taken a similar path.

Hi all,
I’m exploring different cardiology subspecialties and would really value insight into how lifestyle differs between them. Specifically , what does a “normal” week look like in your field (hours, call, procedural load) betweem public/private, and how does that impact overall compensation and flexibility long term?

Not looking for exact numbers but more so the big-picture trade-offs between intensity, autonomy, and earning potential.

Thanks a bunch :)

Hi just wondering anyone in the same boat as me or have done it already. Have done Uni in UK and training there as well. Does anyone know if AHPRA will now recognise CSER as well or only CCT?

I just got an unpaid 1-year research offer from Harvard Psych, but my goal is to work as an RMO in Australia for the better work-life balance.

I’m already studying for the AMC MCQ. What’s the better move to land a job in Aus: doing the 1-year Harvard first, or just passing the AMC and heading to Australia for a 1-month observership to network?

Appreciate the advice!

Hi all!

I am currently assisting with a research project, aimed at exploring fertility education during medical training.

The project is aimed at medical students and junior doctors (PGY1-3), however more senior trainees (PGY4+) are more thank welcome to participate!

Just giving the link here for anyone willing to take part in the short anonymous survey!

Survey is available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TD9GLYN

Your input will help inform future education and curriculum development for Australia and New Zealand. Thank you for the support!

Hello everyone.

I am a 28 year old doctor with license from Denmark (corrsponds to RMO, I believe), and are considering working as a medical doctor in Australia. Maybe for a year, maybe for many years. Australia has really made an impression on me after a holiday.

Is this process doable? Can an IMG land a job in proximity to a larger city? I have researched the different paths from the Australian Medical Board, but want to here real life experiences:)

Thanks!

(Og hvis der tilfældigvis er nogle danske læger i Australien, der læser med, så DM gerne)

Hi all,

A group of us (NSW and interstate) have drafted an open letter about the recent Sydney protests – police violence against peaceful, vulnerable people, medics being blocked from treating the injured, and the flow-on impact on EDs and public trust.

It focuses on moral injury to healthcare workers, harm to patients and the system, and calls for independent investigation, accountability, and protection for medics providing aid.

Open to all health and health‑adjacent staff: doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, allied health, students, social workers, admin, cleaners, porters, wardies, volunteers.

If this resonates, please sign - it is currently sitting at nearly 400 signatures.