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released: 22 Oct 1999 author: AIHW media release

Provides statistics on all medical practitioners registered with the medical board in each State and Territory of Australia in 1997. The number and characteristics of all registered medical practitioners are presented including statistics showing: employment in medicine by age, sex, type of practitioner, work setting, hours worked, country of initial qualification, residency status and geographic region. Also includes data on the number of students enrolled in and completing tertiary medicine courses, levels of international migration within the field, and Medicare statistics.

ISSN 1327 4309; ISBN 978 1 74024 015 4; Cat. no. HWL 13; 92pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (51KB PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of figures and tables
    • List of supplementary tables
  • Body sections
    1. Main features (268KB PDF)
    2. Primary care practitioners (76KB PDF)
    3. Specialists and specialists-in-training (68KB PDF)
      1. Specialists
      2. Specialists-in-training
    4. Hospital non-specialists (56KB PDF)
    5. Medical workforce in hospitals (66KB PDF)
      1. Public hospitals
      2. Private hospitals
    6. Rural and remote medical workforce (53KB PDF)
    7. Aboriginal health service employment (51KB PDF)
    8. Migration of medical practitioners to and from Australia (75KB PDF)
      1. Overseas-trained Australian citizen or permanent resident medical practitioners
      2. International migration by medical practitioners
    9. Medical education and training (52KB PDF)
    10. Medicare statistics (61KB PDF)
  • End matter (90KB PDF)
    • Explanatory notes
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Related publications

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above.

Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. Significant changes were made to the survey design in 2000. Data from the 1997 to 1999 surveys have been revised to enable time series comparisons.
  2. New table added August 2005.

Recommended citation

AIHW 1999. Medical labour force 1997. National Health Labour Force Series. Cat. no. HWL 13. Canberra: AIHW.