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Employed medical practitioners: FTE rate by remoteness areas, 1997
Type of practitioner Major city Inner regional Outer regional Remote/
Very remote (b)		 Total (c)
Clinicians 290 167 141 116 255
Primary care 112 94 88 80 108
Hospital non-specialist 29 12 13 20 26
Specialist 110 53 34 12 91
Specialist-in-training 37 7 6 4 30
Other clinicians . .  . . . . . . . .
Non-clinicians 26 7 7 7 20
Total 315 174 148 123 275
Employed medical practitioners: FTE rate by remoteness areas, 2007
Type of practitioner Major city Inner regional Outer regional Remote/
Very remote (b)		 Total (c)
Clinicians 310 178 150 192 287
Primary care 95 85 84 106 99
Hospital non-specialist 40 21 15 45 37
Specialist 116 54 38 29 102
Specialist-in-training 56 17 12 12 46
Other clinicians 2 2 1 1 2
Non-clinicians 22 7 7 12 19
Total 332 186 157 204 305

  1. Based on a standard full-time working week of 45 hours.
  2. Care should be taken when interpreting 2007 data for Remote/Very remote areas due to the relatively small number of employed medical practitioners who stated that their main job was located in this area.
  3. Includes medical practitioners who did not provide information on their main job location.

Source

AIHW Medical Labour Force Surveys, 1997 and 2007.