International Medical Graduates in Victoria
Victorian health system
The Victorian health system provides a world-class service to all Victorians in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency; however, the needs of today's health system will be significantly different from the needs of the future.
Victorians are getting older and living longer. As a result, health care is becoming less about the treatment of endemic disease and more about the management of chronic disease into old age.
Victoria. A better state of health plans to address the challenges of the future, improve health services and ensure a sustainable health system for all Victorians by:
- providing better equipment and technology: technological advances in our hospitals have increased treatment options for people living in country Victoria
- providing more services close to home: more services in rural Victoria are being provided closer to where people live
- rebuilding and upgrading hospitals: over 40 rural hospital redevelopments
- recruiting more health professionals to country Victoria: there are several initiatives to get more medical professionals with more skills to more sites across the state.
Working in a Victorian hospital can provide you with valuable learning experiences that enable you to consolidate and extend your theoretical knowledge and technical skills. An orientation manual is available for use by international medical graduates working in the Victorian hospital system. This document was commissioned by the Department of Human Services and developed by the Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria.
It complements the medical board's orientation to professional practice and the hospital-based orientations of doctors to the workplace. It covers issues such as working in a hospital, professional behaviour of doctors, personal and professional supports, Australian medical systems (requirements to practice), health organisations and services.