General Practice
General Practice (Family Medicine) in Australia can be a very challenging and fascinating experience, given the large geographical distances across the various regional or rural areas. General Practice here is very similar to that in other westernised countries with most GPs providing a full range of primary care services to them.
In some practices, some GPs may choose to provide obstetric services, minor surgery clinics and may even provide some anaesthetic services to local hospitals.
GPs earn their income in Australia through Medicare rebates and private fees on a fee-for-service basis. Some practices may offer salaried positions where a GP is contracted to work a fixed number of hours for a fixed salary.
In Australia, since 1997 there have been some restrictions on Overseas Trained doctors obtaining Medicare rebates when working in cities and so non-Australian doctors are restricted to working in rural or outer Metropolitan areas if they want to work as GPs in Australia.
International Family Medicine / GP Qualifications accepted as equivalent in Australia:
| UK | MRCGP (and JCPTGP or PMETB) |
| EIRE | MICGP |
| USA | Certificate of the American Board of Family Practice |
| Canada | Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians of Canada |
| Sth Africa |
Fellowship of the Faculty of General Practice of the College of Medicine of South Africa OR Membership of the Faculty of General Practice of the College of Medicine of South Africa |
| Australia/ NZ | FRACGP (Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of GPs) |
Alternatively any graduate from any of the above countries with over 2 years General Practice experience can potentially work as a GP.
We are also able to assist GP registrars looking for hospital or GP placements.
Other qualifications will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. For further details or to discuss your individual requirements please contact us.
