Visa in Oz for doctors..Lets discuss and help.. Sender: mvt550

Hello again, The topic is huge - you are unlikely to find all the answers you need on this forum!

I do need to warn you about one thing.

You are quite right that the AMC exam will allow you unconditional registration which will give you a satisfactory skills buttessment for a 60 point occupation.

HOWEVER, depending on what PR visa you're looking at, you may well also need to satisfy the recent work experience criteria in an occupation on the SOL - you will find that the SOL doesn't just have "medical pracbreastioner". Every medical pracbreastioner occupation on the SOL is a specialist occupation (including general pracbreastioner) with specific job duties etc. There is no occupation listed on the SOL for junior doctors-doctors in postgraduate training (eg RMO in Australia). In particular, if you look closely at the ASCO job descriptions, RMO is EXCLUDED from the SOL.

So a 60 point skills buttessment is easy enough to get after pbutting the AMC but doesn't mean you will satisfy the work experience criteria.

Essentially the addition of medical pracbreastioner occupations to the SOL a couple of years ago was intended for medical specialists only - not for doctors still undergoing postgraduate training. BUT I have heard of (but don't personally know any) doctors in training successfully getting PR so perhaps DIMA isn't very clued up about the difference!!

Madhu

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