Medical Training Review Panel 19th Report

Proportion female (%)	Total
Proportion of total (%)
Less than 20 years	550	731	57.1	1,281	35.0
20-24 years	834	842	50.2	1,676	45.8
25-29 years	249	241	49.2	490	13.4
30-34 years	83	57	40.7	140	3.8
35-39 years	18	25	58.1	43	1.2
40 years and over	16	12	42.9	28	0.8
Total	1,750	1,908	52.2	3,658	100.0

Source: Medical Schools Outcomes Database

Information on the preferred type of medical practice in 2014, as reported in the MSOD questionnaire by students in their final year of a medical degree, is provided in Table 2.9

The most popular preferred types of medical practice among graduates were adult medicine/internal medicine and surgery, followed by general practice (476, 394 and 392 respectively).
Table 2.9: Preferred type of medical practice in final year of medical degree, 2010-2014

	2010			2011			2012			2013			2014
Specialty^(a)	Medical students	Proportion of total (%)		Medical students	Proportion of total (%)		Medical students	Proportion of total (%)		Medical students	Proportion of total (%)		Medical students	Proportion of total (%)
Addiction medicine	..	..		14	0.6		6	0.2		3	0.1		3	0.1
Adult medicine/internal medicine	287	16.3		430	19.1		444	17.7		456	16.6		476	19.5
Anaesthesia	170	9.6		171	7.6		213	8.5		193	7.0		183	7.5
Dermatology	31	1.8		35	1.6		48	1.9		44	1.6		42	1.7
Emergency medicine	135	7.6		195	8.7		211	8.4		229	8.3		186	7.6
General practice	218	12.3		282	12.6		370	14.7		469	17.0		392	16.1
Indigenous health	2	0.1		4	0.2		7	0.3		4	0.1		..	..
Intensive care medicine	57	3.2		53	2.4		53	2.1		59	2.1		64	2.6
Medical administration (e.g. managing a hospital)	2	0.1		10	0.4		5	0.2		1	0		2	0.1
Non-specialist hospital practice (e.g. career as a medical officer in a hospital)	3	0.2		1	0		1	0		5	0.2		4	0.2
Obstetrics and gynaecology	107	6.1		136	6.1		170	6.8		167	6.1		182	7.5
Occupational and environmental medicine	2	0.1		..	..		..	..		1	0		1	0
Ophthalmology	41	2.3		59	2.6		51	2.0		55	2.0		69	2.8
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	..	..		10	0.4		10	0.4		8	0.3		..	..
Paediatrics and child health	152	8.6		222	9.9		256	10.2		264	9.6		250	10.3
Pain medicine	..	..		1	0		2	0.1		2	0.1		2	0.1
Palliative medicine	..	..		6	0.3		8	0.3		13	0.5		6	0.2
Pathology	19	1.1		21	0.9		14	0.6		15	0.5		18	0.7
Psychiatry	46	2.6		48	2.1		67	2.7		82	3.0		74	3.0
Public health medicine	7	0.4		12	0.5		5	0.2		11	0.4		6	0.2
Radiation oncology	..	..		8	0.4		4	0.2		14	0.5		12	0.5
Radiology	40	2.3		37	1.6		53	2.1		51	1.9		54	2.2
Rehabilitation medicine	2	0.1		4	0.2		1	0		5	0.2		4	0.2
Rural and remote medicine	33	1.9		61	2.7		56	2.2		57	2.1		..	..
Sexual health medicine	..	..		2	0.1		6	0.2		4	0.1		4	0.2
Sport and exercise medicine	2	0.1		5	0.2		11	0.4		13	0.5		9	0.4
Surgery	407	23.0		406	18.1		436	17.3		440	16.0		394	16.2
Other	3	0.2		14	0.6		6	0.2		90	3.3		..	..
Total	1,766	100.0		2,247	100.0		2,514	100.0		2,755	100.0		2,437	100.0

1. 
   Data were collected from the medical students in their final year who answered the MSOD questionnaire.
   

Source: Medical Schools Outcomes Database
In 2015, a total of 567 international students of the 3,777 commencing medical students reported that they held temporary or other entry permits to Australia (Table 2.10). The highest numbers of international students came from Singapore (31.7%), Canada (20.5%), Malaysia (12%) and China (4.6%).

Table 2.10: International commencing medical students holding temporary or ‘other’ entry permits by place of birth, 2015