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Health professional graduate trainee cluster

Definition

These data elements are used in conjunction with each other to describe the volume of health professional graduate trainees within an establishment.

For the purposes of this data element cluster, health professional graduate trainees include any person who has graduated from a course and gained a qualification to practice as a health professional in Australia, does not qualify as a new health professional graduate, and is commencing or undertaking postgraduate training in the health professional field.

Health professional graduate trainees may be employed by an establishment while undertaking clinical/professional education and training requirements for an accredited course.

For the purposes of this data element cluster, health professional graduate trainees 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

  • Any person undertaking medical vocational training in a recognised medical speciality training program accredited by the Australian Medical Council. These trainees are also known as registrars.
  • Registrars in hospitals or health services undertaking medical vocational training in non-accredited training positions.
  • Any person undertaking training for a certificate or diploma qualification from a specialist medical college accredited by the Australian Medical Council.

• 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.

Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Medical graduate trainee—medical specialty type, code N[N].N[N] - - mandatory 25

Comments

Guide for use:

The Health professional graduate trainee cluster comprises three data elements that provide information on the total number of graduate trainee full time equivalents (FTEs) and the profession of those trainees. In the case of medical graduate trainees, the cluster also describes the medical specialty.

The Health professional graduate trainee 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}]
  • Addiction medicine
 N[NNN{.N}]
  • Anaesthesia
 N[NNN{.N}]
  • Dermatology
 N[NNN{.N}]
  • etc.
 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


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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