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It's early days for the 2015 Ballot season -- a period of more than 6 months when medical students apply for internship (to start work in the latter half of January). Each state/province has its own Ballot and its own criteria for selecting and allocating its interns. All have promised to give all their own domestic graduates jobs. Three (ACT, Victoria, and WA) prioritize their own international students above out-of-state domestic students. Some states employ merit-based criteria for selection of candidates within each of their priority groups, while most select them randomly.
The current gross numbers for the country as a whole are the following:
Unique applicants: 3676
NB1: these numbers are for state ballots only, and do not include Commonwealth Medical Internship (CMI) spots that will likely be made available for international students again this year.
NB2: I don't yet have the number of New Zealand student applicants, who for a majority of states are in a higher priority group than int'l students. Such prevents knowing how many state balloted spots are available to int'l students.
NB3: final numbers will not be known until next year, as spots tend to be magically 'created' along the way, candidates shuffle around or sometimes hold onto multiple acceptances for a period, others leave the country or take a year off, and (at least for the past two years) the ~100 CMI spots were made available late in the season. To date, in every year, there have been more spots available nationwide than grads trained in Australia who ended up wanting a job (e.g., two years ago when 176 int'ls were not placed by Ballot, ~100 CMI spots were offered to them, and about half remained unwanted/unfilled). Hopefully, the Commonwealth spots will continue for int'l students, but there are already enough spots to accommodate all domestic students moving forward as the annual grad numbers level out (with the peak to be realized in 2015).
The current gross numbers for the country as a whole are the following:
Unique applicants: 3676
Domestic students: 3004
International students: 480
Other (foreign students): 192
Total intern spots: 3210International students: 480
Other (foreign students): 192
NB1: these numbers are for state ballots only, and do not include Commonwealth Medical Internship (CMI) spots that will likely be made available for international students again this year.
NB2: I don't yet have the number of New Zealand student applicants, who for a majority of states are in a higher priority group than int'l students. Such prevents knowing how many state balloted spots are available to int'l students.
NB3: final numbers will not be known until next year, as spots tend to be magically 'created' along the way, candidates shuffle around or sometimes hold onto multiple acceptances for a period, others leave the country or take a year off, and (at least for the past two years) the ~100 CMI spots were made available late in the season. To date, in every year, there have been more spots available nationwide than grads trained in Australia who ended up wanting a job (e.g., two years ago when 176 int'ls were not placed by Ballot, ~100 CMI spots were offered to them, and about half remained unwanted/unfilled). Hopefully, the Commonwealth spots will continue for int'l students, but there are already enough spots to accommodate all domestic students moving forward as the annual grad numbers level out (with the peak to be realized in 2015).
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