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APPENDIX 3 - TRAINING PLACES AVAILABLE IN EACH SPECIALITY AREA AND GENERAL PRACTICE TRAINING IN 1997 AND 1998

HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT BILL (NO 2) 1996

APPENDIX 3 - TRAINING PLACES AVAILABLE IN EACH SPECIALITY AREA AND GENERAL PRACTICE TRAINING IN 1997 AND 1998

The number of training places in GP training in 1997 and 1998 is 400 in each year.

Based on verbal advice from the specialist medical colleges, the Department's estimate for the number of first year specialist training positions in 1997 is as follows (please note that some specialities are included in the numbers for the whole college, eg Physicians include the list of sub- specialities which appears below, others are enumerated where possible):

General Practice 400

Anaesthetics 125

O & G 25

Psychiatry 93

Opthamalogy 22

Dermatology 6

Radiology 35.5

Radiation Oncology

Physicians 260

Internal Medicine

Paediatrics

Public Health

Occupational Medicine

Rehabilitation Medicine

Surgeons

General surgery 54

Cardiothoracic 10

Neurosurgery 11

Paediatric surgery 4

Plastic and reconstructive 6

Urology 20

Orthopaedics 41

Otolaryngology 9

Vascular

Emergency Medicine *

Medical Administration *

Pathology *

TOTAL: 1122

* denotes data not yet available.

NOTE: The Department also undertook to write to each medical specialist College and request information on the number of positions which they believe will be available in 1998.