Medical Training Review Panel: thirteenth report
Female Trainees
Up to Health workforce resources
- Foreword
- Acronyms
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: University Medical Education and Training- Chapter 3: Prevocational Medical Training
Chapter 4: Vocational Medical Training- Chapter 5: International Supply
- Chapter 6: Special Purpose Training Programs
- Chapter 7: Medical Training Review Panel Subcommittees and National Projects
- Appendices
In 2009, almost half (3,967 or 48.1%) of all advanced vocational trainees were female (Table 4.7). The number of female advanced vocational trainees within each specialty ranged from 13 in medical administration to 1,472 in general practice. Specialties with the highest proportion of females included obstetrics and gynaecology (67.9%), pathology (64.5%), and general practice (63.8%).
Training programs with a comparatively low proportion of females included medical administration (14.1%), surgery (23.1%) and intensive care (24.3%).
Table 4.7: Female advanced vocational trainees by medical specialty and state/territory, 2009
Medical specialty | NSW | Vic | Qld | SA | WA | Tas | NT | ACT | Aust |
| Adult medicine(a) | 169 | 160 | 57 | 33 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 465 |
| Anaesthesia | 81 | 74 | 40 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 246 |
| Pain medicine | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Dermatology | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 23 |
| Emergency medicine(b) | 101 | 73 | 70 | 26 | 39 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 340 |
| General practice | (c)472 | 360 | 284 | 123 | 143 | 47 | 49 | .. | (d)1,472 |
| Intensive care | 38 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 91 |
| Medical administration | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 44 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 89 |
| Occupational and Environmental medicine | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Ophthalmology | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Paediatrics(a) | 91 | 85 | 41 | 16 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 266 |
| Pathology | 96 | 53 | 41 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 233 |
| Psychiatry | 44 | 71 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 171 |
| Public health medicine | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 36 |
| Radiation oncology | 31 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 58 |
| Radiodiagnosis | 37 | 36 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 114 |
| Rehabilitation medicine | 41 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 85 |
| Surgery(e),(f) | 73 | 64 | 39 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 208 |
Total | 1,367 | 1,082 | 686 | 294 | 326 | 76 | 78 | 52 | 3,967 |
(a) These figures include trainees within the joint RACP and RCPA program and conditional advanced trainees.
(b) Total includes 12 trainees working overseas.
(c) ACT trainees are included in the NSW total.
(d) If registrars transfer between states/territories part-way through the year they will be counted against each state tally but only once in the total.
(e) Data for SET trainees only. No data available for BST, which is no longer accepting new applicants.
(f) RACS does not differentiate between basic and advanced surgical trainees as the surgical program is an integrated program (SET).
Source: Medical colleges and GPET