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A brief history of the specialties from Federation to the present
Author(s) -
Storey Catherine E
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja14.00136
Subject(s) - content (measure theory) , library science , information retrieval , computer science , political science , mathematics , mathematical analysis
In Australia, medical colleges have formed the framework on which specialisation has developed, and there are now 16 specialist medical colleges that represent all current major medical specialty groups (Box; and Appendix, online at mja.com.au). In 2011, there were about 24 000 specialists and 12 500 specialists-in-training.1 While specialisation is now an established part of the medical landscape, this was not the case at the time of Federation.