NEW regulations coming into effect immediately mean overseas trained doctors seeking visas to work as general practitioners in Australia will be required to obtain a Health Workforce Certificate from a Rural Workforce Agency.
The arrangements mean overseas trained doctors will be directed away from well-serviced metropolitan areas to areas of workforce need, in particular regional, rural and remote communities across the country.
Minister for Regional Services and Decentralisation, Bridget McKenzie, said the initiative would reduce the numbers of overseas trained doctors entering the primary health system by about 200 each year for the next four years under the skilled migration program.
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