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Registered health professional—principal field of medicine, medical practitioner code N

Definition

The field of medicine in which a medical practitioner spent the most hours in the week before registration, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Registered health professional—principal field of medicine, medical practitioner code N

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Medical practitioner principal field of medicine code N ".
Data Type Number
Format N
Maximum character length 1
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 General practitioner (GP)
2 Hospital non-specialist (salaried)
3 Specialist
4 Specialist-in-training
5 Other clinician
6 Non-clinician
Supplementary Values 9 Not stated/inadequately described

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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