I suspect few local graduates fully appreciate the challenges IMGs face in coming to work in Australia.

In fact, the difficulties they face are staggering, and not enough is being done to help them.

The result is that they are invariably stressed to a level we cannot appreciate. Clearly this has a negative effect on their health and welfare.

Those of us panel doctors who work with doctors’ health services across Australia — and deal with stressed medical practitioners on a daily basis — do receive calls from IMGs.