Talk:Medical education in Australia

Should add the disparity between social classes within medical school cohorts. Most, if not all, medical students, within an undergraduate level, come from affluent families and hence, they are severely over-represented. However, given the competitiveness, universities seem to 'sweep' this suggestion out of the blue and justify this disparity by claiming that the UMAT is a 'fair' indicator of being a doctor. It really is just a way to mitigate their idiocy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.138.39.158 (talk) 00:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Q1

Q1:

Just wondering where you got this information?

"Some states (e.g. New South Wales) also require junior doctors to undertake a second generalist year, that is their first RMO year. Other states permit streaming from the first RMO year."

Do you have links to specific references? Which states permit streaming from first RMO year? Thanks, this is for personal interest as I am studying medicine here.

Q2:

For those of us in the US system, the terminology is somewhat different, so I have to ask:

When you say that some specialty training occurs at the registrar rather than resident level, do you mean that the programs offer merely a formal curriculum support, while you are directly (and fully) responsible for the care of your own patients? In the US residency system, all training occurs under the direction of the attending physician (the exact equivalency to "registrar" vs "consultant" is unclear to me; in short the person who is ultimately accountable for the care of the patient, and under whose name the patient is admitted), whether the individual is an intern (1st year out of medical school), resident (basic specialty training), or fellow (pursuing subspecialty training, e.g. plastic surgery, cardiology, etc.).

2. The registrar is a mid-level doctor who is still undertaking training towards their fellowship; inpatients are still admitted under a consultant (for consultant think "attending"). --Daveb 11:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Question: What does it mean to "skoll schmeer (without spillage)"? Answer: To be a true blue medical student, most likely from the University of Adelaide where all the best Schmeer Skollers are born

Prerequisites/eligibility criteria for postgraduate medical education

I'd like to have detailed information about the prerequisites/eligibility criteria (academic as well as non-academic), for postgraduate medical education in Australia.

• Why? These change year to year, are rather lengthy, and can be found elsewhere.203.101.233.39 08:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Relevance of sections on GP education

The last two sections on the page seem as though they've been written by someone involved with ThinkGP. My search has admittedly been brief, but I couldn't find anything from an independent source to support the claim that Reed Exhibitions is "the major provider of conference-based education and training", or that ThinkGP is "the largest single provider of online education to GPs in Australia". Since these sections deal with the ongoing education of GPs I believe they still have value, but I think more unbiased information needs to be sourced and the biased-sounding sentences should probably be rewritten.

(The passages I particularly have problems with are: "A key online provider is ThinkGP, which is the largest single provider of online education to GPs in Australia. Established in 2005 by GP Dr John Crimmins the site has become an excellent litmus test for the uptake of online learning for Australian GPs. The uptake of online education by GPs is currently being studied by Monash University who feel this should influence the standards of education delivery to GPs in the future." and "The major provider of conference based education and training for Australian GPs is Reed Exhibitions that has run the GPCE in four major cities for over 20 years.")

Anyone have anything to contribute in this area?

Zingiberal (talk) 10:08, 8 December 2015 (UTC)