Emigrating to Australia: medical employment
24 August 2016 by News DeskEmigrating to Australia: The Doctor workforce is increasingly specialised with more female clinician specialists and GPs.
Emigrating to Australia: Medical practice in Australia has changed over the last decade with a major shift toward a medical workforce with more specialist roles.
The total number of registered medical practitioners increased from 67,890 in 2005 to 97,466 in 2015.
The majority of these (83,871) were practitioners employed as clinicians.
The supply of medical practitioners working in general practice (GPs) changed little between 2005 and 2015, ranging from 109 per 100,000 people in 2008 to 114 in 2015 (24,655 to 28,329 GPs).
In contrast, the supply of non-GP specialists increased from 121 to 143 per 100,000 people between 2005 and 2015 (21,953 to 31,189 employed specialists).
The supply of specialists-in-training increased from 43.4 to 74.8 per 100,000 people (7,268 to 15,336 specialists-in-training).
“This suggests that while the supply of GPs is keeping pace with population growth, the number of medical practitioners working in, or training to take on, specialist roles is growing faster,” said AIHW spokesperson Dr Adrian Webster.
Emigrating to Australia: medical employment
There were 29,269 non-GP specialists employed in clinical roles in 2015 (94 per cent of the total), according to a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
As in previous years, most (58 per cent) were employed in one of the broad speciality groups of physician (22 per cent), surgery (15 per cent), radiology (6 per cent), obstetrics and gynaecology (5 per cent), paediatrics (5 per cent) and pathology (4 per cent).
A greater proportion of non-GP specialists in clinical roles were female in 2015 – 29.5 per cent, up from 20.9 per cent in 2005 and a higher proportion of GPs were women – 42.1 per cent in 2015, up from 36.5 per cent in 2005.
GPs had the highest proportion aged 55 or older (40.5 per cent) of all clinician groups in 2015, according to the report, Medical Practitioner Workforce 2015.
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