Definition
These data elements are used in conjunction with each other to describe the volume of new health professional graduates within an establishment.
For the purposes of this data element cluster, new health professional graduates include any person who has graduated from a course and gained a qualification to practice as a health professional in Australia.
Dental, nursing, allied health and other diagnostic profession graduates who are in an existing new graduate training program and in their first or second year post graduation are considered new graduates.
Medical graduates that have graduated from a university medical school and are undertaking postgraduate prevocational medical training are considered new graduates. This first year is sometimes known as the intern year or postgraduate year one. Many junior doctors work for one or more years after their intern year to gain more experience. This is sometimes known as the postgraduate year two or postgraduate year three.
New health professional graduates may be employed by an establishment while undertaking clinical/professional education and training requirements as part of a new graduate program.
For the purposes of this data element cluster, new health professional graduates include the following medical, dental, nursing, allied health and other diagnostic professions:
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker
• Audiology
• Chiropractic
• Dentistry
• Dietetics
• Exercise physiology
• Medicine
• Medical laboratory science
• Midwifery
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Optometry
• Oral health
• Orthoptics
• Orthotics and prosthetics
• Osteopathy
• Paramedicine
• Pharmacy
• Physiotherapy
• Podiatry
• Psychology
• Radiation science
• Social work
• Sonography
• Speech pathology
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.
| Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # | |
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| No data elements have been assigned to this grouping. | ||||||
Comments
Guide for use:
The New health professional graduate cluster comprises two data elements that provide information on the total number of new graduate full-time equivalents (FTEs) and the profession of those students. In the case of new medical graduates, the cluster also describes the year of their postgraduate training.
The New health professional graduate cluster describes the following information for an establishment:
| Profession | Total number of FTEs |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Audiology | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Chiropractic | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Dentistry | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Dietetics | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Exercise physiology | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Medicine | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Medical laboratory science | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Midwifery | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Nursing | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Occupational therapy | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Optometry | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Oral health | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Orthoptics | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Orthotics and prosthetics | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Osteopathy | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Paramedicine | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Pharmacy | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Physiotherapy | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Podiatry | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Psychology | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Radiation science | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Social work | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Sonography | N[NNN{.N}] |
| Speech pathology | N[NNN{.N}] |
References
Related content
| Relation | Count |
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| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |