Medical Training Review Panel 19th Report

Total (%)	45.9	47.2	49.6	48.8	50.7	51.4	52.5	45.9	45.5	46.3	46.6	46.7	48.1	47.6	49.9	50.4	52.0	52.6
53.6
Total number	2,322	2,393	2,488	2,456	2,538	2,650	2,845	2,930	2,758	3,015	3,181	3,421	3,967	4,494	5,116	5,536	6,160	6,733	7,399

1. 
   Addiction medicine, palliative medicine, sexual health medicine and sport and exercise medicine were recognised as specialties in 2009.
   
2. 
   Until the end of 2014, the AGPT program was managed by GPET, which was owned and funded by the Australian Government.
   
3. 
   Data include trainees undertaking pathology and RACP jointly up to 2010.
   
4. 
   The total proportion of female surgical trainees, including Australian, New Zealand and overseas trainees was 24.4%.
   

Source: Medical colleges and the Australian Government Department of Health

Table D24: Advanced trainees: Proportion of females by state/territory, 1997-2015

Year	NSW	VIC	QLD	SA	WA	TAS	NT	ACT	AUS
1997	41.8	39.5	40.0	37.7	39.1	38.3	57.1	44.4	41.0
1998	43.5	41.3	40.7	43.4	44.2	35.2	39.5	53.3	43.0
1999	44.8	43.3	41.6	44.7	45.1	45.1	50.6	45.2	44.1
2000	42.6	43.9	43.0	45.2	43.5	43.8	40.3	42.8	43.2
2001	45.5	46.3	42.0	45.2	41.1	48.3	46.3	45.9	44.8
2002	46.1	47.8	40.9	41.4	44.4	43.1	53.5	42.9	45.1
2003	48.0	46.1	43.6	45.3	47.2	56.4	53.5	39.0	46.4
2004	46.3	46.7	44.0	44.1	46.0	52.4	50.6	42.1	45.9
2005	45.3	46.2	44.2	41.4	46.1	51.3	55.7	40.3	45.6
2006	46.9	47.7	46.0	41.4	46.8	49.1	55.9	39.8	46.3
2007	47.5	47.5	45.2	43.6	46.0	43.8	60.4	30.8	46.6
2008	46.3	45.0	44.3	44.9	42.7	46.9	59.2	33.3	45.1
2009	39.2	49.4	46.2	47.2	45.2	48.7	60.0	42.6	48.1
2010	50.0	48.8	46.1	46.4	48.9	57.6	52.3	40.1	47.6
2011	53.8	49.9	47.3	48.2	47.3	51.2	61.6	34.5	50.2
2012	52.7	50.8	46.8	50.2	50.9	52.7	60.1	35.8	50.3
2013	53.4	52.5	48.8	52.2	54.2	53.6	57.7	39.9	52.1
2014	54.0	53.4	49.4	50.9	53.8	55.3	58.6	45.1	52.6
2015	54.0	54.6	50.0	54.7	55.5	56.4	58.8	50.9	53.6

Source: Medical colleges and the Australian Government Department of Health

Table D25: Vocational training positions/trainees: Total, advanced, female advanced and part-time advanced trainees, 1997-2015

Year	Training positions/trainees	Advanced training positions/trainees	Proportion advanced training positions/trainees (%)	Female advanced trainees	Proportion female advanced trainees (%)	Part-time advanced trainees	Proportion part-time advanced trainees (%)
1997	6,422	5,665	88.2	2,332	41.2	296	5.2
1998	6,818	5,561	81.6	2,393	43.0	337	6.1
1999	6,910	5,645	81.7	2,488	44.1	388	6.9
2000	7,262	5,680	78.2	2,456	43.2	368	6.5
2001	6,835	5,661	82.8	2,538	44.8	325	5.7
2002	7,213	5,874	81.4	2,650	45.1	357	6.1
2003	7,273	6,126	84.2	2,845	46.4	534	8.7
2004	8,188	6,387	78.0	2,930	45.9	704	11.0
2005	8,710	6,059	69.6	2,765	45.6	932	15.4
2006	9,317	6,514	69.9	3,018	46.3	676	10.4
2007	11,249	6,833	60.7	3,181	46.6	739	10.8
2008	11,668	7,324	62.8	3,421	46.7	556	7.6
2009	12,958	8,249	63.7	3,967	48.1	1,052	12.8
2010	14,679	9,432	64.3	4,494	47.6	971	10.3
2011	15,478	10,214	66.0	5,116	50.1	1,416	13.9
2012	16,740	10,996	65.7	5,536	50.3	1,220	11.1
2013	17,888	11,832	66.1	6,160	52.1	1,576	13.3
2014	19,158	12,791	66.8	6,733	52.6	2,075	16.2
2015	20,069	13,810	68.8	7,399	53.6	2,229	16.1
Change 1997-2015 (%)	212.5	143.8	-22.0	217.3	30.2	653.0	208.9

Source: Medical colleges and the Australian Government Department of Health

Table D26: New fellows by medical speciality, 2000-2014

Medical specialty	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Change 2000–2014	Change 2000–2014 (%)
Addiction medicine	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	3	1	4	3	2	..	..
Adult medicine	159	129	170	168	190	181	247	209	303	397	346	362	456	438	307	148	93.1
Anaesthesia	95	123	165	133	128	198	135	150	234	197	243	223	229	256	208	113	118.9
Anaesthesia - pain medicine	..	..	..	..	..	5	5	7	11	9	17	12	19	14	27	..	..
Dermatology	8	14	21	9	12	13	14	23	11	11	26	21	20	23	31	23	287.5
Emergency medicine	40	61	34	82	80	58	78	69	95	82	77	78	135	115	137	97	242.5
General practice
RACGP	365	324	670	746	661	671	628	592	819	928	^(c)835	^(d)1,037	^(h)1,216	^(j)1,096	1,283	918	251.5
ACRRM	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	21	22	40	28	^(e)38	63	85	74	..	..
Intensive care	11	22	20	15	20	29	23	36	62	63	60	50	63	^(k)52	40	29	263.6
Medical administration	9	7	6	10	15	4	13	11	10	9	18	^(f)14	19	13	28	19	211.1
Obstetrics and gynaecology	54	49	46	57	29	28	49	46	66	56	82	90	81	68	99	45	83.3
Occupational and environmental medicine	3	1	4	4	6	6	6	6	11	11	5	2	4	8	9	6	200.0
Ophthalmology	25	21	20	30	20	26	16	30	14	11	26	^(g)29	^(i)38	^(l)36	37	12	48.0
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	4	8	11	9	..	..
Paediatrics	40	41	51	55	57	74	73	47	114	116	91	102	146	134	102	62	155.0
Palliative medicine	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	8	6	7	16	15	39	..	..
Pathology^(a)	42	35	37	43	41	48	46	77	68	64	94	88	99	98	95	53	126.2
Psychiatry	80	70	82	70	109	85	90	72	147	125	154	131	136	141	133	53	66.3
Public health medicine	11	11	13	6	8	4	13	15	13	12	15	4	7	7	12	1	9.1
Radiation oncology	14	12	10	9	10	19	9	12	11	18	13	22	20	23	17	3	21.4
Radiodiagnosis	46	26	36	40	37	39	74	54	54	44	54	77	115	100	79	33	71.7
Rehabilitation medicine	13	10	13	12	15	13	19	24	21	13	22	23	26	20	33	20	153.8
Sexual health medicine	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	0	3	3	3	5	..	..
Sport and exercise medicine	..	..	..	..	..	..	7	3	5	1	1	3	2	^(m)2	4	..	..
Surgery	111	103	108	117	115	155	155	176	171	^(b)174	^(b)184	^(b)212	^(b)217	^(b)193	^(b)183	72	64.9