Norman Swan
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first heard Jul 2005
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Pri and I spoke to the current president of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Doctor Philip Moreau, who's based in New Zealand.
So just before you go j just before you go on, Philip.
You say it's not really the purview of the college, but you're really the only college where it happens.
If you're in the college of physicians and you're doing a physician's training and you're a registrar in general medicine or a registrar in pediatrics, you're there to train and you can do the exam.
You don't have one registrar working next to another, um and they're both in the training scheme.
Why why is surgeons different?
I'm I'm still not really understanding it.
Maybe I'm just being thick about this.
But you're saying the states fund it.
But the states also fund you know, the other registrars in surgery, whether it's orthopedics, general surgery, or what have you.
So you've got two registrars working together, both funded by the state, yet the college only recognizes one of those positions, hypothetically, but or proportion of them.
So is it right to say that it's the it's the state's problem rather than the college's problem?
So I had a look at that that document, Philip, and I I saw in there that there's a mention about diversified pathways, including routes that may not lead to a fellowship from the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.
So it talks about broadening surgical capability.
Is this a suggestion that someone might be able to be an unaccredited registrar and attain
their full qualification for surgery without necessarily going through this racks pathway?
So
Again, just picking up on Priya's question about your strategy there.
So you've got somebody going on in a unaccredited position.
Most of them are not doing it because they love being in an unaccredited position.
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