Are you Eligible?

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Are you eligible to work as a Radiologist in Australia?

Radiologists the following qualifications are eligible for fellowship to the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Radiologists:

• UK FRCR with GMC CCT Certificate
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with GMC CCT Certificate

There is an exam that Radiologist’s will complete after 12 months of practising in Australia to gain Fellowship

Are you eligible to work as a General Practitioner in Australia?

GPs with the following qualifications are all eligible for fellowship to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners:

• UK MRCGP with GMC CCT Certificate
• UK MRCGP with PMETB CCT Certificate
• UK MRCGP with JCPTGP CCT Certificate
• Irish graduates of ICGP holdng MICGP membership
• GPs from USA holding Certificate of the American Board of Family Practice

For more information regarding your eligibility please contact us at Poole Medics today.

Earnings

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Contact us at Poole Medics for an estimate of your potential earnings.

High earnings and low rates of tax are attracting medical professionals to Australia. Salaries and conditions are very appealing in comparison to contracts offered currently by the NHS in the UK.

General Practitioners working in Australia can expect to earn between AUD$240,000 and $350,000 per year. If you were to work 40 hours a week, seeing 35 patients per day, you could earn between $250,000 and $300,000 per year.

Radiologists working in Australia can expect to earn between $400,000 and $500,000 per year. This would be working Monday – Friday, 9.00am – 5.30pm reporting on 70-100 cases per day from X-ray, CT, Ultrasound, Nuclear, PET, Mammography & MRI. Some practises offer and percentage based equity arrangement or partnership after 12-24 months.

Poole Medics have established relationships with local financial planners who can advise you about potential earnings in more detail.

Of particular note are the attractive financial incentives being offered to secure medical professionals in rural and remote areas (because of high demand). Generally speaking, the more remote the area, the higher the salary you can earn. While remote locations won’t appeal to everyone, they do present the adventurous minded medical person with a fantastically different and exciting experience that can complement and enhance a career.

Australia offers a unique outdoor lifestyle where you’ll meet new people and have new experiences. The landscape, the warm climate, the high standard of living with premium housing, great schools and fantastic uncompromised earning potential is attracting many medical professionals to make the transition for a year or longer.

Australian is a vast country that is so geographically and aesthetically different to anywhere else in the world yet culturally similar to the UK, due to its long history and established migration schemes. Many UK expats feel quite at home in Australian making the transition relatively smooth.

The Australian lifestyle is one of the best in the world. As the sunniest capital city, Perth, in Western Australia in particular is a great place to live. It has wide open spaces and a dry, Mediterranean-style climate, dominated by deep blue skies, clean air and people who love the outdoors. It has some of the best beaches in the world with fine white sand and brilliant clear turquoise water.

Perth has the sophistication of a modern city without the usual congestion and overcrowding. It boasts superb restaurants serving all kinds of cuisine and the world renowned wine growing regions of Margaret River and the Swan Valley. You’ll find a vibrant cafe scene, great pubs, exciting night life and many dedicated shopping districts. These have seen a resurgence in recent years as the city has been enjoying the benefits of a mining boom for the past ten years or so.

Perth also has a vibrant cultural scene and is home to many major arts organisations and cultural institutions. Every summer, the city hosts the Festival of Perth, Perth’s own world class arts festival. The Perth Cultural Centre in Northbridge is home to the Western Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts (PICA), the State Library and the State Theatre Centre. The West Australian Ballet and West Australian Opera have performance seasons throughout the year as does Black Swan State Theatre Company and the Perth Theatre Company. A very special and popular Perth past time is outdoor cinema. There’s not much that compares to lying back on an outdoor chair, a glass of wine in hand, watching a great movie on a balmy summer evening!

In terms of family life the options are endless. Perth has a wide range of sporting and recreational activities and importantly quality schooling and excellent universities.

Housing comes in all sizes, from large houses with a backyard and swimming pool to brand new inner city apartments.

A typical weekend in Perth could involve swimming, playing sport, bush walking (where you’ll encounter amazing flora and fauna), shopping, dining out, picnicking at national parks or a day on the river or the beach.

Australians are fairly fanatical about their sport, with cricket, rugby union, rugby league and soccer being extremely popular.

Perth is very close to South East Asia and many Western Australians take advantage of cheap holidays in Indonesia and Asia.

As a multicultural society, Australians welcome people from all over the world. Australia’s strong Aboriginal culture, widely seen as one of the oldest known living cultures on earth, dates back more than 40,000 years.
Australia is a progressive and politically stable country that offers its people a first class integrated health system providing medical professionals with opportunities to work across a wide range of clinical specialities in cosmopolitan cities or in rural communities.

Population
With a population of just over 20,000,000, and a land area of 7,686,850 sq km, making it the sixth largest country, Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world.

Language
Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia, including 45 indigenous languages. The most commonly spoken languages other than English are Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Mandarin.
States and Territories
Australia is made up of six states and two territories as depicted in the map below. There is an estimated distance of 4000km or 2485 miles from the east coast of Australia to the west coast and it takes about four hours and 15 minutes to fly from Perth to Sydney