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released: 9 Jun 2000 author: AIHW media release

Provides statistics on all medical practitioners registered with the medical board in each State and Territory of Australia in December 1998. The number of 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 initial medicine courses, levels of international migration within the field and 1998-99 Medicare statistics.

ISSN 1327 4309; ISBN 978 1 74024 015 4; Cat. no. HWL 15; 70pp.; OUT OF PRINT

Supplementary tables

List of tables, time series 1997-2001(11K PDF) Note 1

  1. All employed practitioners (169K XLS) Note 2
  2. All employed practitioners by region (109K XLS)
  3. Primary care practitioners and hospital non-specialists (156K XLS)
  4. Specialists and specialists-in-training (176K XLS)

Related publications

Recommended citation

AIHW 2000. Medical labour force 1998. National Health Labour Force Series. Cat. no. HWL 15. Canberra: AIHW.