Costs of Doing Business - 2025/6 Medical Year

Bottom Line Up Front:

$6,081.80 to show up to work this year

AHPRA Registration Renewal - $1,058

• Was $1,027 last year
• 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

CICM Annual Trainee Member Fee - $2,228.33

• Was $2,040 last year
• Increased this year because reasons
• Mandatory
• Can not train in Intensive Care otherwise
• It is barely worth asking about what this fee gets us

Trip to Melbourne for Exam - $860.47

• Mandatory
• Accomodation - $502.92
• Flights - $246.56
• Transport
  • Uber to Airport - $61.79
  • Airport Buses - $49.20
• I wont be so petty to include food; I would have needed food regardless
• And, fortunately, I passed

Advanced Life Support Level 2 Course - $1,795

• Mandatory for Intensive Care training
• Essential knowledge

South Australia Working With Children Check - $140

• So they would let me do a Locum in South Australia
• I already have a Blue Card in Queensland
• Because why would states within a country share this vital information?

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…