mahi

hi all

I Just couldnt understand the difference between the "Standard Pathway (AMC Examination ) " and the "standard pathway ( workplace based assessment )". My brother did his MBBS from Bharatpur, Nepal. He cleared immidiately the required certification from "Medical Council of India" and now is General Medical Practitioner in Rajasthan Government.

What steps he has to follow to immigrate to Australia.

I hope to get the answer soon from the forum, as has happened always here with great contributors on it.

Mahi.

ponyrama

Mahi

Your brother may want to consider employer sponsorship route rather than general skilled migration route. There are many vacancies for Doctors, especially in rural and remote australia and health departments are willing to sponsor doctors from overseas who are appropriately qualified.

For example:-

http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/aon/index.asp

This is the link to the NSW health - Area in Need program which explains what overseas trained doctors have to do to gain employment in Australia. Each state health department will have a similar programme I think.

Hope this points you in the right direction.

mvt550

The workplace based assessment pathway is NOT operational at present.
It is intended to be an alternative pathway to the AMC exam pathway in future. It is unclear how long it will be until it is operational but as far as I know there is no expected date so it is likely to take some time yet!!


So as things stand at the moment your brother can either use the standard pathway and sit the AMC examination or he could try the specialist pathway where he applies for recognition as an overseas trained specialist. This is likely to involve a lot of paperwork!

If he chooses to sit the AMC exam - he can do the MCQ overseas - they have several centres including Mumbai and New Delhi.

mahi

thank u Ponyrama and mvt550. Kindly continue doing goodwork as you doing right now and help those who really need great help of yours.

both of you have shown me the way. But both are different ways. One suggested by ponyrama does not require AMC Pathway, as I read it and found that in this particular path one has to go through the vacancies announced by the provinces there ( here NSW ), and contact them directly, get registration on successful interview, and then temp visa ! no AMC !

Here I hope the time too can be very little, as in AMC - MCQ, it might take may be more than 2 or more years as the time betn MCQ and the clinical test itself is 9 - 16 months approx.

One more clarification if u can make - are these two pathways both valid for my bro ?

thanking u

mahi