
Originally Posted by
GeorgeMD2B
Australian medical residencies are very long, usually, a graduate spends 2 years as a intern, and then specializes in their particular field of interest. GP residencies take about 3 years while other specialties take about 5, one thing, if you are not a graduate of an Australian school, you are going to have a very hard time practicing medicine there. It is also quite harder for foreign trained doctors in Australia to find work in more desirable locales such as the larger cities in the East Coast.