Medical Training Review Panel 19th Report

Medical Graduates

Current data

In 2014, a total of 2,968 domestic students graduated from Australian medical schools (Table 2.23). From 2010 to 2014 the number of domestic medical graduates increased in each state and territory. The greatest increases were in New South Wales and Victoria by 68.2% and 66.9% respectively.

Table 2.23: Domestic medical school graduates in Australian universities, by state/territory, 2010-2014

University	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Change 2010-2014	Change 2010-2014 (%)
	New South Wales
Newcastle/UNE	104	70	140	147	171	67	64.4
Notre Dame Sydney	..	103	106	107	109	..	..
Sydney	221	222	237	231	256	35	15.8
UNSW	166	187	198	203	219	53	31.9
UWS	..	86	91	108	104	..	..
Wollongong	63	67	66	72	73	10	15.9
Total NSW	554	735	838	868	932	378	68.2
	Victoria
Deakin	..	109	123	136	115	..	..
Melbourne	212	234	231	240	297	85	40.1
Monash	181	219	290	297	244	63	34.8
Total VIC	393	562	644	673	656	263	66.9
	Queensland
Bond	74	81	69	85	78	4	5.4
Griffith	151	133	150	144	138	-13	-8.6
Queensland	332	290	307	314	311	-21	-6.3
James Cook	94	88	92	136	160	66	70.2
Total QLD	651	592	618	679	687	36	5.5
	Western Australia
Notre Dame Fremantle	86	98	104	114	95	9	10.5
UWA	207	172	165	183	179	-28	-13.5
Total WA	293	270	269	297	274	-19	-6.5
	South Australia
Adelaide	94	97	111	127	137	43	45.7
Flinders	102	109	113	111	110	8	7.8
Total SA	196	206	224	238	247	51	26.0
	Tasmania
Tasmania	89	67	97	104	85	-4	-4.5
	Australian Capital Territory
ANU	83	75	87	85	87	4	4.8
Total	2,259	2,507	2,777	2,944	2,968	709	31.4
Annual change		248	270	167	24
Annual change (%)		11.0	10.8	6.0	0.8

Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc

The number of international students graduating from Australian medical schools fluctuated over the period 2010-2014 with a slight decrease of 5 graduates or 1.1% (Table 2.24).

Table 2.24: International medical school graduates in Australian universities by state/territory, 2010-2014

University	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Change 2010-2014	Change 2010-2014 (%)
	New South Wales
Newcastle/UNE	21	20	29	23	32	11	52.4
Notre Dame Sydney	..	..	..	0	0	..	..
Sydney	35	32	38	48	43	8	22.9
UNSW	55	36	46	58	53	-2	-3.6
UWS	..	..	9	7	23	..	..
Wollongong	4	10	11	8	5	1	25.0
Total NSW	115	98	133	144	156	41	35.7
	Victoria
Deakin	..	0	1	4	2	..	..
Melbourne	90	89	83	86	21	-69	-76.7
Monash	94	70	67	62	63	-31	-33.0
Total VIC	184	159	151	152	86	-98	-53.3
	Queensland
Bond	1	1	1	2	2	1	100.0
Griffith	0	0	..	0	0	0	..
Queensland	77	98	130	114	94	17	22.1
James Cook	3	2	3	2	20	17	566.7
Total QLD	81	101	134	118	116	35	43.2
	Western Australia
Notre Dame Fremantle	0	0	0	0	0	0	..
UWA	25	27	21	28	30	5	20.0
Total WA	25	27	21	28	30	5	20.0
	South Australia
Adelaide	40	21	24	24	29	-11	-27.5
Flinders	14	19	19	11	18	4	28.6
Total SA	54	40	43	35	47	-7	-13.0
	Tasmania
Tasmania	11	28	16	12	25	14	127.3
	Australian Capital Territory
ANU	4	4	9	8	9	5	125.0
Total^(a)	474	457	507	497	469	-5	-1.1

1. 
   Excludes all offshore programs, including UQ Ochsner and Monash Malaysia.
   

Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc

Trends

Each year the number of total medical graduates increased, except for 2014 where there was a slight decrease. The decrease was 0.1% from 2013 to 2014, however, there was an overall increase of 31.4% in domestic graduates across the last five years from 2010 to 2014 (Table 2.25). Also approximately half of all medical graduates, both domestic and international, were females (51.4% for domestic and 48.2% for international in 2014).

Table 2.25: Medical graduates: Domestic, international and proportions of females, 2010-2014

Student type	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Change 2010-2014 (%)
Domestic	2,259	2,507	2,777	2,944	2,968	31.4
Proportion domestic (%)	82.7	84.6	84.6	85.6	86.4	4.5
Proportion female (%)	54.1	55.0	53.2	52.8	51.4	-4.9
International^(a)	474	457	507	497	469	-1.1
Proportion international (%)	17.3	15.4	15.4	14.4	13.6	-21.3
Proportion females (%)	54.2	51.6	52.9	49.1	48.2	-11.1
Total	2,733	2,964	3,284	3,441	3,437	25.8
Annual increase (%)		8.5	10.8	4.8	-0.1

1. 
   Excludes all offshore programs including UQ Ochsner and Monash Malaysia.
   

Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc

In 2014, 79.4% of all medical graduates were Commonwealth-supported. Of these, 73.7% were HECS-HELP funded students (Table 2.26). From the years 2012-2014, there was a decrease in those Commonwealth-supported students in the MRBS Scheme (-26%), and for fee-paying students there was an increase in number of domestic students (47.4%).

Table 2.26: Medical graduates by type of student place: Number and proportions of places, 2012-2014

Type of student place	2012	2013	2014	Change 2012-2014	Change 2012-2014 (%)
	Medical Graduates
Commonwealth-supported	2,612	2,765	2,730	118	4.5
HECS-HELP only	1,879	1,931	2,012	133	7.1
BMP Scheme	633	733	644	11	1.7
MRBS Scheme	100	101	74	-26	-26.0
Fee-paying	663	667	699	36	5.4
Domestic	156	170	230	74	47.4
International^(a)	507	497	469	-38	-7.5
Other	9	9	8	-1	-11.1
Total	3,284	3,441	3,437	153	4.7
	Proportion of places (%)
Commonwealth-supported	79.5	80.4	79.4
HECS-HELP only	57.2	56.1	58.5
BMP Scheme	19.3	21.3	18.7
MRBS Scheme	3.0	2.9	2.2
Fee-paying	20.2	19.4	20.3
Domestic	4.8	4.9	6.7
International	15.4	14.4	13.6
Other	0.3	0.3	0.2

1. 
   Excludes all offshore programs, including UQ Ochsner and Monash Malaysia.
   

Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc