Re: Native English

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:31:55 +1100, Peter Moylan
<peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robert Bannister wrote:

I hope I've got this wrong, but as far as I can make out, in Western
Australia at least it is the doctor's trade union or whatever they
call it that keeps new graduates out, so that the government is
forced to make up the shortfall with non-English speaking doctors
from the Balkans. I suspect this is how "Dr Death" came to be
employed in Queensland too.

For the basic MBBS, or whatever the first qualification is called, I
believe it's the federal government that decides how many new students
may be accepted in each university each year. Of course the graduates
still have to be accepted into hospitals as interns, but I think the
real bottleneck is at the point where first year students arrive.

In the case of specialists, there is a longstanding argument between the
government and the Painters and Doctors Union over who is to blame for
the shortage. It seems very likely to me that the established
specialists are indeed trying to keep the competition down.

House painters or artsy-fartsy painters have joined forces with
physicians in Australia?

--
Al in St. Lou
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