The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Activities Report 2022

This comprehensive report presents information about the surgical workforce and its distribution, along with details about surgical training and examination results. The data is captured from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 and provides a comparison of information from 2021.

If you are a government health department; or related agency; or interested in surgical or RACS activities, then the Activities Report provides you with invaluable insights that can contribute to decision-making, reporting and research.

Key findings

In the report, there is a range of insightful data available from across RACS in the areas of skills training, specialist international medical graduates, surgical education and training, examinations, workforce distribution and professional development and standards. We have summarised some key findings below.

Fellowship and Trainee admissions
In 2022, RACS admitted 268 new Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Fellows. We also have 1264 surgical Trainees.

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