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In United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, the term doctor is more common (and in formal/legal contexts, medical practitioner as well), as physician refers to specialists in internal medicine.
Overseas trained doctors in Australia (OTDs) are medical practitioners who completed their core medical training overseas. Historically, from time to time there has been a shortage of qualified medical practitioners in Australia, especially in rural Australia, [1] and the Australian Government has at times encouraged immigration for such graduates to Australia.
In 2015, Australia had (on average) 3.52 physicians per 1000 population and, in 2022–23, 2.5 hospital bed per 1000 population. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] At the 2011 Australian Census 70,200 medical practitioners (including doctors and specialist medical practitioners) and 257,200 nurses were recorded as currently working. [ 12 ]
List of countries by physicians per 10,000 people [1] Country Physicians per 10,000 people Year Afghanistan: 2.535 2020 Albania: 18.826 2020 Algeria: 9.868 2019 Andorra: 36.262 2015 Angola: 2.443 2022 Anguilla: 15.132 2018 Antigua and Barbuda: 28.979 2017 Argentina: 40.818 2022 Armenia: 31.174 2019 Australia: 39.812 2021 Austria: 55.083 2022
International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Pharmaceutical Medicine [1] International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies [ 1 ] International Committee of the Red Cross
Also: Australia: People: By occupation: Medical doctors / Women scientists: Women physicians This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Australian medical doctors . It includes medical doctors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is an Australian public company by guarantee formed as a professional association for Australian doctors and medical students.The association is not run by the Australian Government and does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the Medical Board of Australia [1] and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. [2]
William Osler Abbott (1902–1943) — co-developed the Miller-Abbott tube; William Stewart Agras (born 1929) — feeding behavior; Virginia Apgar (1909–1974) — anesthesiologist who devised the Apgar score used after childbirth