IMGs face a series of obstacles to practise in Australia, which regulatory agencies should address
In 2018, international medical graduates (IMGs) made up 31% of the medical workforce.1 Their contribution was recently acknowledged by the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Health:
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We thank the de‐identified IMGs who generously contributed their oral histories for this research. Neville Yeoman’s research was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program fee‐offset scholarship, which waives fees during his PhD candidature. The funding source played no role in planning, study design, data collection, analysis or interpretation, reporting or publication of this work.
Alan Roberts is principal of an organisation that runs and charges a fee for training programs to assist IMGs to pass the AMC examinations. In that role, he often hears of difficulties they encounter with the processes required after they pass the examinations.