Standards and reports

The Board has developed Standards: Specialist medical college assessment of specialist international medical graduates. These Standards support specialist medical colleges in conducting assessments of specialist international medical graduates (SIMGs) and explain what the Board expects of colleges when they are assessing SIMGs.

Reports

Specialist medical colleges’ specialist pathway data

From 1 July 2014, specialist medical colleges report their specialist pathway activity directly to the Medical Board.

Reporting is annual by calendar year. The Board has published the data commencing from the first full calendar year of reporting (2015).

A summary of each specialist medical college’s 2023 data is available.

External review of specialist medical colleges’ assessment of international medical graduates

Recommendation 25 of The Independent review of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health professionals was:

The Medical Board of Australia to evaluate and report on the performance of specialist colleges in applying standard assessments of International Medical Graduate applications and apply benchmarks for timeframes for completion of assessments.

In response to this recommendation, the Medical Board commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to undertake an external review of the performance of the specialist medical colleges in their assessment of SIMGs.

• Deloitte Access Economics - Final report - External review of the specialist medical colleges’ performance – specialist international medical graduate assessment process (3.54 MB,PDF), Word version (3.35 MB,DOCX

The Board provided colleges with an opportunity to correct any errors of fact in the report. The following colleges provided corrections:

The Board accepted the report and issued a media statement and a response to Deloitte’s recommendations.

Board's response

• Medical Board of Australia response to the External review of the specialist medical colleges’ performance – specialist international medical graduate assessment process (85.5 KB,PDF), Word version (62.0 KB,DOCX)

Media statement

• Board publishes report of external review of the specialist medical colleges’ assessment of international medical graduates

Retired versions

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