No More Foreig[?]

The End Of A

Useful Scheme

No More Foreig[?] Doctors

Papua-New Guinea has endei scheme for using New Austn doctors who do not have Britis Australian registration.

A PPOINTMENTS as grad A medical officers in Papua- Guinea must now have registration. The Departmen Territories arranges no ] examinations of doctors with ( seas qualifications until the local registration.

The system of BMA registon in Australia varies in diffi States. Some States require 1 years of residency before a foi doctor can apply for registrs when he might also be require attend further study at the versity. Some other States dc have residency qualifications they generally require refr courses to be undertaken for va periods. Tasmania requires foreign registered doctors worl five years for the Austr government after local registn Often, newly registered fo; doctors in Australia have to for long periods before they practise.

Doctors Were Scarce The scheme for use of fo doctors in New Guinea was proved by the Government after the war when doctors hard to get. Doctors who ap were given a special examin to prove their qualification, a: they satisfied the examiners were immediately given app ment in the Territory withou need for registration in Aust The scheme became fai Some doctors who worked in Guinea later went back to tralia to practise. Others wei America.

One or two of those who pra( in New Guinea turned out 1 unsatisfactory with insuff qualifications—a risk that Government had to take, generally speaking the scl which was never meant to be thing else but a stop-gap one successful, and got P-NG m< authorities through a very di: period. Most of the New tralians were highly respected efficient officers.

Now that scheme has ended In Sydney in November, D B. Cyran, who graduated medicine from the Universil

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ig, Poland, said that he had 1 in the last year for a n as medical officer in New i, although his interests have articularly in the psychologi- Id.

Changed the Scheme

Dyran said he sat for a two xamination in Melbourne, but was a delay of some months he was told that subsequent 3 application it had been 1 that no more foreign > would be appointed as il officers, grade I. in Papua luinea unless they first had l or Australian registration, said he was informed that were sufficient local doctors >ming forward and that P-NG d allow for graduates under edical cadet scheme, er this scheme, the Govern assists students to undertake il courses on condition that erve as medical officers in the )ry after graduation, tudent who is assisted only e year of his university course uired to serve two years in Guinea after graduation. One s assisted for four years or must agree to work for five in the Territory.