Medical Practitioners who wish to migrate to Australia can now apply under the General Skilled Migration Program. Medical Practitioners have now been included on the Skilled Occupations List.
The skilled occupation of Medical Practitioner was allocated 60 points Medical Practitioners are also on the Migration Occupations in Demand List. This means that Medical Practitioners receive priority processing and applications will be processed within six months.
The Australian Skills assessment process for Medical Practitioners is:
If the candidate’s occupation is medical practitioner, the candidate must make an application to the Medical Board in the State or Territory where they wish to practise for full medical registration.
Candidates must provide evidence of full medical registration which serves as a skills assessment for the purposes of applying for migration under the Australian General Skilled Migration Program.
Applicants must provide evidence of full medical registration which serves as a skills assessment for the purposes of migration under the Australian General Skilled Migration program.
The Australian Immigration Department will accept these certificates issued by the State or Territory Medical Board as evidence of full registration:
* full/unconditional/general medical registration; or
* conditional Specialist registration; or
* Full/unconditional/general medical registration.
Candidates that did not complete their medical studies in Australia in an Australian Medical Council (AMC) approved school must take the AMC examinations and complete a period of supervised practice
For further information on the AMC examination process visit the AMC website.
Once you have passed the examination and supervised practice of the AMC examination, you must apply to the Medical Board in the State or Territory in which you intend to practise for full/unconditional/general medical registration, which entitles you to practise in Australia.
Conditional Specialist registration
Overseas trained specialists whose specialist qualifications are not recognised in Australia, must apply through the AMC/Specialist Medical College to have their specialist training and qualifications assessed. The assessment determines if their qualifications are equivalent to Australian trained specialists.
For further information see the Australian Medical Council website.
Once you have received recognition by an Australian Specialist College, you must apply to the Medical Board in the State or Territory in which you intend to practise for conditional registration in your specialist field of practice.
Medical Practitioners can also apply to work temporarily in Australia. This is called the Temporary Medical Practitioner visa. The Temporary Medical Practitioner visa covers medical practitioners (specialists in any medical field) and permits Australian employers to recruit overseas doctors, mainly in regional and rural areas, without touching the opportunities of Australian residents. Australian organisations (businesses, communities or Government agencies) can sponsor medical practitioners from overseas to work in Australia for up to four years. The Australian sponsor which can be businesses, communities or government agencies must be the direct employer of the doctor.
For medical practitioners or students who are interested in the testing service for admission to Australian medical schools, click here.
ASSISTANCE WITH THIS VISA OR OTHER VISAS?
You might wish to talk to a migration agent about this visa. Migration Agents in Australia give Australian visa advice. Migration Agents in their work of giving Australian visa information are supervised by an official government agency. Here is a general link to the Migration Agents Registration Authority so that you can better understand what migration agents do with regard to visas, their responsibilities and your rights as a member of the public in regard to Australian immigration, migration and emigration visas and Citizenship.
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