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Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha

General Practitioner
Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha trained in Sri Lanka and Oxford and passed the AMC exam in 1996. He was Associate Professor of General Practice at Monash University and a senior medical officer in the Australian Army reserve. He still practises as a GP in Melbourne.

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Is the profession prejudiced against IMGs?

I was taken aback to see an advertisement recently, in no less a publication than the Canberra Times, for a medical practitioner to join a GP clinic in rural Queensland. Nothing unusual in that, I can almost hear you saying.

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Is the profession prejudiced against IMGs?

I was taken aback to see an advertisement recently, in no less a publication than the Canberra Times, for a medical practitioner to join a GP clinic in rural Queensland. Nothing unusual in that, I can almost hear you saying.

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