Costs of Doing Business - 2024/5 Medical Year

Bottom Line Up Front:

$10,492 to show up for work this year

AHPRA Registration Renewal - $1027

• Mandatory
• Pay money to unelected random office people to maintain a spreadsheet of names and registration numbers
• Doctors pay more than physios, nurses etc
• Because it costs more money to enter our details into a spreadsheet because reasons

Mater Short Course - $1,300

• Not quite mandatory
• But it’s seen as a suggested investment into exam preparation

Transthoracic Echocardiography Course - $750

• Mandatory
• Literally a requirement for Intensive Care Training in Australia
• $750 is the cheapest you’ll ever get one

CICM Annual Trainee Member Fee - $2,040

• Mandatory
• Cannot train in Intensive Care otherwise

CICM Part One Exam Application Fee - $5,375

• I paid the fee this medical year, but don’t actually sit until March
• It’s an exam handwritten on paper, not carved in gold
• Naturally, mandatory
• And if you do well enough…..you get the grand prize of having to fly to Melbourne to sit the verbal part of the exam…

Caveat: Naturally, I am happy to participate in my own existence; and none of this is truly mandatory. I could just lay down in a ditch.

But if you want Australian-trained specialists looking after you…