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plabotomy · Credits: 17311 My Scrapbook

Hi all this is a new post to share information about and discuss about the Area of Need Pathway (AONP) to Australia . I will share all the information I have on the AONP. This is information I have and may not be a 100% accurate. Feel free to add, comment or question! Lets us discuss and clarify all our doubts on the AONP

The AONP is for those doctors who have a minimum of 2 years of experience in India or 1 year in the U.K. ie post internship experience

By definition they will send you where they have a shortage, hence area of need!!! Don't expect to land up immediately in a major city!!!

You are usually granted a visa of one year at a time, extendable to upto a maximum of four years

During the four years to progress further you must pass the AMC exam (both parts) and then take up one year of supervised training before you become eligible for full registration. Once you have full registration you are free to pursue your career anywhere in Australia

If your training post is at the Registrar/ PHO level then you can apply for exemption to the one year supervised training, after passing the AMC. No guarantees on exemption

After completing two years in the AONP you are eligible to enter the GP program

Advantages:
1. You are working as a clinical doctor while preparing for your AMC

2. You are therefore gaining Australian experience, i guess this will be better than having no Australian experience when competing for jobs

3. You are of course being paid and therefore not being a burden to anyone back home

4. Since you know more about the Australian system, it will be an advantage in the clinical exams

Disadvantages

1. You are in the AON which may be a rural inaccesible area

2. Hospitals may be so short that they promise you the moon but you maybe in for a shocker when you actually get there

Feel free to add anymore information to what I have added

Cheers

Plabotomy

plabotomy · Credits: 17311 My Scrapbook

More Advantages:

Well your accommodation etc is sorted out before you reach there

Your tickets and relocation costs are borne partly or wholly by the recruiting hospital. The rule of thumb here is that the closer you are to a city the less the expenses paid

Plabotomy

plabotomy · Credits: 17311 My Scrapbook

well i thot it was one year for uk experience but now im not sure

although i wud have 14 months exp by feb when i plan 2 go

a friend of mine go rejected 2day owing to lack of exp

by feb he would have 21 months of uk exp plus MRCS part2 plus every imaginable course under the sun: ALS, ATLS, EPLS, BSS and CCrISP

with regards to how to apply well there are direct ads by the hospitals and recruitment agents ( I cant give websites without the rxpg guys going snip)

I would take the recruitment agents cos of the additional help u get during ur processing!!

plabotomy · Credits: 17311 My Scrapbook

Hey all I am an Indian doctor who has got an offer to work in two different hospitals

1. A&E in a hospital near Brisbane, Queensland
2. Pediatric A&E, Adelaide, Southern Australia

which one should I take? Keeping in mind the sentiments of the Ozzies following the situation involving Dr. Death?

drss · Credits: 4681 My Scrapbook

thnx a lot dear..................u r doing a gr8 work.just kepp doing it.many of us r folowing pple like u.our best wishesh will help u to acheive wat u wanna be......thnx again dear.nd good luck for ur choices thr..

shabbir · Credits: 142 My Scrapbook

Dear All, I have been offered AON job in Australia as a HO in a costal town at 4 hours drive from Sydney. I am presently in UK, post PLAB , registered with GMC and working unpaid as Honorary SHO in Medicine. I have done MRCP part1 and am taking MRCP part 2 in December. I want to stay in Uk and there is around a 60-70% chance that i might get a job in the hospital in UK in which I am doing honorary SHO job in Feb. But the job situation is very volatile here these days and there is no surety of anything. I am otherwise a PG in medicine and have completed my requirement for PACES. So it is a matter of passing the exams.
I want to delay that the job offer in Australia but dont know how to convince my sponser. And I am quite discouraged by the things about Australia that i hear from this site, the time it takes to move on to a training post. Can any one advise me what to do.
Thanks in advance....

mass · Credits: 195 My Scrapbook

Helloo PPL I have completed my completed my graduation and have 1 yr experience in Pakistan can i apply for the AONP and where do i apply from

plabotomy · Credits: 17311 My Scrapbook

Hey Mass
Sorry dude
I think most people ask for a minimum of two years experience for the AONP
But you could try though
There always have been exceptions

mass · Credits: 195 My Scrapbook

Hi plabotomy,
Sure no harm in trying ...... Can you please mail me the site address where i can apply online or where i can download the forms. plus wat kind of documents they need .... and yeah thanks for the fast reply

plabotomy · Credits: 17311 My Scrapbook

hey mass
i applied through an agency called latitudes dot com dot au
you could try them
all the best

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