Health professional graduate trainee cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

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METEOR identifier:Help on this term544932
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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

Collection and usage attributes

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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: 

ProfessionTotal number of FTEs
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workerN[NNN{.N}]
AudiologyN[NNN{.N}]
ChiropracticN[NNN{.N}]
DentistryN[NNN{.N}]
DieteticsN[NNN{.N}]
Exercise physiologyN[NNN{.N}]
MedicineN[NNN{.N}]
  • Addiction medicine
N[NNN{.N}]
  • Anaesthesia
N[NNN{.N}]
  • Dermatology
N[NNN{.N}]
  • etc.
N[NNN{.N}]
Medical laboratory scienceN[NNN{.N}]
MidwiferyN[NNN{.N}]
NursingN[NNN{.N}]
Occupational therapyN[NNN{.N}]
OptometryN[NNN{.N}]
Oral healthN[NNN{.N}]
OrthopticsN[NNN{.N}]
Orthotics and prostheticsN[NNN{.N}]
OsteopathyN[NNN{.N}]
ParamedicineN[NNN{.N}]
PharmacyN[NNN{.N}]
PhysiotherapyN[NNN{.N}]
PodiatryN[NNN{.N}]
PsychologyN[NNN{.N}]
Radiation scienceN[NNN{.N}]
Social workN[NNN{.N}]
SonographyN[NNN{.N}]
Speech pathologyN[NNN{.N}]

 

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termIndependent Hospital Pricing Authority

Relational attributes

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Has been superseded by Health professional postgraduate and vocational trainee cluster
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Hospital teaching and training activities DSS 2014-15Health, Retired 31/10/2017
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 27/11/2017

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1Establishment—full-time equivalent health professional graduate trainees, total N[NNN{.N}]Mandatory55
2Health professional graduate trainee—qualified profession type, code N[N].NMandatory30
3Medical graduate trainee—medical specialty type, code N[N].N[N]Mandatory25