For general surgery, ENT, and orthopedics , or for any surgical branch, entering is very difficult and very lengthy. Australians don’t recognise degrees other than MBBS so you all will have to do the specialization again and it takes 8 to 10 years if everything goes all right. However- there is one way for specialist to practice, you can be “specialist” in the area of need.
Re: Treatment of doctors in Australia by Bertuff
Average Australian doctor will not be very happy to take us. You can understand this, there is nothing wrong in it. I remember in India, I didn’t like doctors from overseas and donation colleges, although it can feel bad but that the truth. Similarly here they don’t like and this is well understood. There are a lot of doctors in India who get the degree without knowing the position of spleen (I know one personally), and because of that everyone suffers. So the Australians say that you are not a qualified doctors, if you are- PROVE IT. But remember, after clearing the AMC exams, there is no distinction and doctors and the patients likes you. You have proved that you are efficient. There is no race difference here. Because some fraud cases overseas, all the applications of doctors are now processed only in Australia. You must remember that whites are very strict in doctors and once granted registration, they trust you a lot. They have their own rules and they are good that’s why you want to come here. So I say not to criticize them but prove your efficiency. They need you, its just the selection and time. Even when they need the doctors, they will not break the rules. So don’t get disheartened, you will enjoy more later if you will got it with difficulty, if it would have been so easy, there would have been no fun, like going US or UK is no fun now. And remember, Australians are learning from the mistakes of US and UK. So they will not keep the doors open for you for long.