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Hi,
That's correct. If you aren't finished with your training in a specialty, then you can apply through one of two pathways: the General (competent authority) pathway, or the specialist pathway.
The General pathway helps to certify all of your medical credentials and allows you the same standing as any other trainee doctor, thus being able to switch training pathways and specialties in the future (if you should want to). The Specialist pathway is stating that you only want to gain certification in the specialty of your training (whether completed or not) and when completed, can only work in that field.
Your process needs to involve the following steps:
1) get your medical credentials approved by the AMC.
2) Once you've obtain recognition by the AMC as a doctor (including your IELTS), then you can decide if you want to go down the competent authority path or the specialist pathway.
3) If you're gong down the specialist pathway, you'll then take your assessment by the AMC and then apply (in this case to RANZCOG) to have your training to date assessed against the Australian training system and ask to be placed somewhere on their training schedule.
4) Once you've been given your assessment (and essentially what level of training they'll consider you to be at, as well as any other requirements they may ask of you), you can then start applying for training positions.
The key thing is ensuring you've got the ability to actually work in Australia. If you are not a permanent resident or citizen, then the training programs can not consider your application till they have reasonably attempted to fill the spot with a local applicant. This will make your progress extremely hard (not impossible, but it'll take a good deal of networking and charisma to set something up).
I don't know anyone personally who's gone through the competent authority pathway, unfortunately. Sorry I can't help more specifically with that.
Does this help?
That's correct. If you aren't finished with your training in a specialty, then you can apply through one of two pathways: the General (competent authority) pathway, or the specialist pathway.
The General pathway helps to certify all of your medical credentials and allows you the same standing as any other trainee doctor, thus being able to switch training pathways and specialties in the future (if you should want to). The Specialist pathway is stating that you only want to gain certification in the specialty of your training (whether completed or not) and when completed, can only work in that field.
Your process needs to involve the following steps:
1) get your medical credentials approved by the AMC.
2) Once you've obtain recognition by the AMC as a doctor (including your IELTS), then you can decide if you want to go down the competent authority path or the specialist pathway.
3) If you're gong down the specialist pathway, you'll then take your assessment by the AMC and then apply (in this case to RANZCOG) to have your training to date assessed against the Australian training system and ask to be placed somewhere on their training schedule.
4) Once you've been given your assessment (and essentially what level of training they'll consider you to be at, as well as any other requirements they may ask of you), you can then start applying for training positions.
The key thing is ensuring you've got the ability to actually work in Australia. If you are not a permanent resident or citizen, then the training programs can not consider your application till they have reasonably attempted to fill the spot with a local applicant. This will make your progress extremely hard (not impossible, but it'll take a good deal of networking and charisma to set something up).
I don't know anyone personally who's gone through the competent authority pathway, unfortunately. Sorry I can't help more specifically with that.
Does this help?