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More than 200 international medical graduates and stakeholders came together in Melbourne for the first conference dedicated specifically to international medical graduates and their experiences with assessment, registration, and practising medicine in Australia.
The conference created space for international medical graduates to share their lived experiences — navigating assessment, migrating and adapting to a new country, achieving registration, and contributing to the medical workforce. Their stories reflected extraordinary resilience, professionalism, and a deep commitment to caring for the Australian community.
We also heard from stakeholders across assessment, education, training, regulation and employment about initiatives to better support international medical graduates in their journeys, including: