Volume 189 - Issue 3
South African medical graduates in Australia
Author: Peter C Arnold
Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 184. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01974.x
Published online: 4 August 2008
Published online: 4 August 2008
To the Editor: More than 2000 graduates of South African medical schools have migrated to Australia since 1948. Unlike many immigrants from Europe before and after World War II, all were fluent in English and most were able to start practising almost immediately.
In chronicling this unique migration and its contribution to Australian health care, I am trying to contact, by email, as many as possible of the 1800 South African doctors now practising here, as well as surviving spouses or children of the 100 or so who have died since arrival. As a 1961 graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, I have a particular personal interest in this migration.
Assisted by a sociologist and a statistician, I have prepared an email questionnaire. Responses will be de-identified before analysis.
I would be grateful if graduates of South African medical schools would contact me by email.