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The potential of workplace‐based assessment of international medical graduates
Author(s) -
Singer Andrew H
Publication year - 2016
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/mja16.00794
Subject(s) - citation , government (linguistics) , library science , management , political science , public relations , sociology , medicine , computer science , philosophy , economics , linguistics
j 5 S e p te m b e r 2 0 16 F outside Australia. Each year, about 2500 of these medical practitioners, known as international medical graduates (IMGs), seek general registration with the Medical Board of Australia. For many IMGs, this has included sitting the clinical examinations conducted by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) as part of the Standard Pathway for IMGs. The eligibility standard for registration is set at the expected level of an Australian medical graduate at the time they complete their internship. Concerns have been expressed about the accessibility of these examinations and the ability of IMG candidates to pass them. Some of these problems were highlighted during an inquiry in 2011e2012 by the House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Health and Ageing, Lost in the labyrinth.