1999 Medicine Handbook - Professional accreditation

Professional accreditation

Hospital appointments
Affiliated teaching hospitals

The following is presented for the information of potential graduates.

Hospital appointments

The Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1973 demands a preregistration year in an accredited hospital. Many graduates seek appointment as interns in one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the university in which they had their clinical training. Others gain this experience in other hospitals in Victoria or even interstate or overseas. Graduates receive their final registration after completion of the compulsory preregistration year and are eligible for registration in another State of Australia.
It is understood that (i) interstate hospitals accepted by their medical boards for the purposes of a preregistration year will be recognised for accreditation; (ii) graduates in their preregistration year will not be able to prescribe outside their accredited hospital; (iii) emergency treatment may be given by a graduate in his or her preregistration year but only as a person with expert knowledge and not as a medical practitioner (this provides protection against any complaint of malpractice); (iv) graduates spending their preregistration year overseas should inquire from the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria whether they will receive Victorian registration.

Affiliated teaching hospitals

In every appointment the hospital takes into consideration the association of the applicant with that hospital, including the general character and disposition of the applicant evidenced during his or her training there, the performance of each applicant at his or her final examination and such other matters as appear to be relevant.
It is anticipated that the accepting hospitals affiliated or associated with the university and other appropriate hospitals in the State of Victoria whether or not associated with Monash would offer, at the end of 1999 for a period of one year, an internship for all graduates who seek such appointments, with the exception of full-fee paying international students.