In Mater Mothers' Hospital NICU, my first clinical medical experience in Australia finally started. However, difficulty of the practice in English was far more than I had expected. I just managed to handle everyday's duty, not excelled more than that. Probably because my days there were like that, I started to feel that only experiencing somewhat of clinical practice wouldn't give me real fruitful achievement for my career. To establish proudful capability, I thought I needed to hang on more and more in Australia. Then, I started studying to switch to Standard Pathway. The Standard Pathway is for overseas doctors seeking General Registration with the medical board. Please see the website of AHPRA for details. Once overseas doctors get the General Registration, there will be no limitation in that they need to work under supervision in a certain hospital only and in that their time period of clinical practice is maximum three years or something. Also, it gives a choice to do locum jobs outside a regular job. Furthermore, it enables overseas doctors to obtain Permanent Residency visa of Australia. Lots of bonuses. In order to obtain the General Registration, two exams such as one written exam and one clinical exam are to be passed and one year hospital rotation training including three core departments such as general medicine, surgery and emergency medicine is to be completed. AHPRA entrusts those two exams to an institute called Australian Medical Council (AMC). Please see the website of AMC for details. During two years and two months in MMH NICU, I managed to pass the AMC part1 (written exam). Then, I moved to Redland Hospital to do the hospital rotation and I managed to pass AMC part2 (clinical), complete the hospital rotation and obtain the General Registration. Finally, I also obtained the Permanent Residency visa of Australia owing to the achievement.
Myself and my colleagues at MMH NICU |