‘If you identify me I’m finished’: The IMG surgeons surviving life under RACS
The untold story of the specialist IMGs on the college pathway for recognition in Australia.
Ten years ago, AusDoc wrote about the medical profession’s ghosts, the IMGs being brought in en masse to work as GPs in the rural and remote communities where few doctors wanted to go.
Isolated professionally and geographically, many were often exploited, with supervision done by phone with someone they barely knew and had probably never met.
