The foreign doctor merry-go-round

Wednesday 2 November 2016

I wrote recently how there has been a flood of overseas-trained doctors (OTDs) into Australia over the past decade, whose numbers have ballooned-out by a whopping 111%:

And that these OTDs have driven a 47% rise in the total number of doctors in the decade to 2014-15, around 2.5 times the 19% growth in the Australian population.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.