Luke Reynolds

Costs of Doing Business - 2024/5 Medical Year

Luke Reynolds -

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…