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...
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...