Starting your career

  • Requirements to practice

    To work as a medical practitioner in Queensland, you must be registered with the Medical Board of Australia.

  • Training

    We have educational and clinical training to support doctors wanting to continue their professional development or medical education.

  • Career structure

    There are a variety of career paths medical practitioners can take while working with us.

  • Salaries

    Our medical practitioners enjoy a wide range of benefits, generous leave entitlements and a competitive salary.

Rural and remote opportunities

Make a healthy career move

Have a passion for improving people’s lives? A health career in regional, rural and remote Queensland will give you a career with purpose, plus excellent benefits and allowances.

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Medical recruitment campaigns

We run campaigns every year to recruit medical interns, resident medical officers (RMOs) and registrars for positions across Queensland.

GP trainee incentive scheme

Train as a GP in Queensland in 2025 and get a one off payment to help with your costs.

Read about our GP trainee incentive scheme

Great work-life balance

Find out about your leave entitlements and watch Daniel’s story about his day-to-day life as a Senior Medical Officer working in rural Queensland.

Senior Medical Officer, Atherton
Duration: 01:26

Transcript for Daniel's healthy move

[Peaceful piano music plays in the background]

>> Daniel:

I really love that I get to raise my girls in Atherton. It’s this amazing place with beautiful landscapes, pristine rainforest right there on your doorstep.

I thought ‘wouldn’t it be amazing if I could live here and not just have to travel up for a holiday’ and then I got into medicine and thought, ‘hang on a sec, this is a career that can take me anywhere.’

I still have to pinch myself occasionally that I’ve got work that I love, living in this place that I love and I get to do all the things that I love to do.

Halfway through med school I made the decision to go and train rural. The things that you’re exposed to and the responsibility that you have is just enormous. If something comes through the door, you’re front and centre, it’s on you. There’s just this huge variety of moments and you’re right there for them. That’s what I love about rural medicine. Every single one of my days is something completely different.

I feel like I’ve grown immensely not just because I’m now a father of two beautiful girls but coming here and starting as a junior doctor and working through the ranks to become a senior doctor, the responsibility that entails to the hospital, to the community, you can’t help but respond to that with personal growth.

Coming here has been the best decision I’ve ever made for my career, my family and I wouldn’t change it for anything.

>> Voiceover: With hundreds of health  jobs available in regional, rural and remote Queensland, make a healthy career move today.

[Background music Fades]

[Text on screen] Ongoing training and professional support. Attractive salary packages. Relocation and housing support.

[Text on screen] Search for Queensland Health Jobs

[Queensland Government Crest appears on screen]

[Tagline on screen] Queensland, Good jobs, Better services, Great Lifestyle.

End of transcript

Taking the next steps in your medical career

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Hear from our team

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Dr Steven Johnston

Senior Medical Officer/General Practice Anaesthetist
Weipa Integrated Health Service

I love being a general practice anaesthetist (GPA). It’s great to be able to support the local obstetrics service. Becoming a GPA was definitely one of the best decisions I ever made – I love the work, I love the place.

Dr Katherine Lynch

Senior Medical Officer
Longreach

There is so much opportunity out here. You can do more here than what you can do in the city. You come out here, you will make a difference to people's lives. You will gain skills that you would never have got the opportunity to gain and you will get to do so much. You'll experience a community that is really, truly grateful for having you here.

Dr David Walker

Executive Director of Medial Services and General Practitioner,
Central West

I came to the area in 2006 and loved the town, fell in love with the people, made lots of friends, and ended up staying. Rural medicine is what you make of it and I’ve been really lucky to get opportunities here that I probably wouldn’t get anywhere else. I get to practice at the top of scope and look after patients for as long as I can.

Last updated: May 2025

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