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How to get into internship/residency in Australia? Tips and tricks for Malaysians' doctors! Part 2 of 2

Picture 1: Evening running after work Thank you for the overwhelming support in the first part of my article. So the question now is that? How can you apply for work in Aussie as a doctor? What are some of the tips and tricks to tackle this? In order to arrive to this step, you must first be qualified to apply for a job as a doctor in Australia. This means that you need to be eligible to be registered with AHPRA. Please refer to the flowchart in my first article to learn more about this ( click here ). Once you are eligible to apply for a job, next you need to know these: Each of the states in Australia would have their own recruitment campaign that will usually be made known online between May to July each year. You would need to create an individual account for each of the health system, e.g. Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory, etc in order to lodge your application with their state department of health. At this point of time, you must know which hospital in that state that you
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How to get into internship/residency in Australia? Tips and tricks for Malaysians' doctors! Part 1 of 2

Picture: My Queensland Health staff card The question that I often get asked is that: is it hard to get a job in Australia as a doctor? The answer is NO. It is not hard to land a job here in Australia as a qualified doctor. Let me explain it in detail in this write up.  Before that, some background info about myself, I am a class of 2020 graduate of Monash University with MBBS (Hons) and published first authorship paper. I did my house officer training in Malaysia with Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HUKM) before I decided to join Queensland Health for training in emergency medicine.  First and foremost, one need to understand that there are two important bodies for doctors in Australia: Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) : For registration and regulation of doctors and other healthcare professionals in Australia. Basically, you need to get AHPRA registration number in order to practice as a doctor in Australia.  Australian Medical Council (AMC) : For regulation
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I was boosted, why am I reinfected with COVID again?

Back in July 2021, many including myself were under the impression that the COVID pandemic would see no end to it soon. Daily cases were ranging between 18,000 to 20,000 cases per day. Preventive measures were much tighter too back then; 14 days of mandatory quarantine was enforced for all COVID positive cases, and 10 days for those who were exposed and symptomatic.  Don't let covid robs it all. I found myself while being in quarantine. My first COVID experience In my case, I was exposed to a fellow colleague at the ward pantry. I had to be in quarantine for 10 days. We had to do 3 swabs in total back then at the interval of day 3, day 7 and day 9 of exposure. My first two swabs were negative and only the third was positive. So I had to be quarantined for a further 14 days which totalled up my quarantine for a grand total of 24 days.  Symptoms wise, I had mild fever and diarrhoea only at the time. It was however not too bad. I was generally pretty much feeling normal back then. Not
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Day 3 of COVID Quarantine

It was just about a week ago when there was a COVID outbreak in my ward. All four patients who were under my care were tested COVID positive by PCR. At the time, COVID swab was done for every patient in the ward because one of our staff nurse was diagnosed as COVID positive. All of us were swab the day after and thankfully we were all negative. I was well until the 6th day of exposure. It was my off day, so I woke up rather late at 7am. It was not a pleasant morning to begin with. I had this nasal congestion with chesty cough and cold even with the aircond blasting at 24 degree celsius. My housemate is exhibiting similar symptoms too. So we then decided to do COVID test for ourselves and true enough, we were both positive that day. So how's life in quarantine so far? Pretty chill if I must say. The past few weeks in medical been really crazy. I was the only person who is responsible for the life of 180 patients across 6 wards during my oncall, and the only doctor working for the we
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