Career pathways
Becoming a nurse
The nursing profession offers diverse range of specialties and opportunities, including:
- midwifery
- paediatrics
- aged care
- oncology
- palliative care
- critical and emergency care
- rehabilitation
- mental health
- rural and remote nursing
- education
- research
- health promotion
- illness prevention
- occupational health and safety
- health service management.
How to become a registered nurse
To become a registered nurse, you will need to complete an accredited course at a recognised university.
- Two-year fast track programs are now available.
- Upon successful completion, you can apply for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia registration
Find out more
University of Tasmania School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Phone: 03 6324 3318 (Launceston campus)
- Phone 03 6226 4699 (Hobart campus)
- Website: www.snm.utas.edu.au
Becoming an enrolled nurse
To become an enrolled nurse, you will need to complete a Diploma of Nursing through a recognised training organisation. Upon successful completion, apply for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
Find out more
TasTAFE
- Phone: 1300 655 307
- Website: www.tastafe.tas.edu.au
Becoming a midwife
The midwifery profession includes opportunities to work in:
- clinics
- maternity wards/hospitals
- neonatal units
- primary care settings
- family planning clinics
- community health centres
- education
- research.
How to become a registered midwife
To become a registered midwife, you will need to complete an accredited course at a recognised university.
- Upon successful completion, you can apply for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia registration
Find out more
The Office of the Chief Nurse and Midwife supports midwifery education in Tasmania in partnership with the University of Southern Queensland (USQ).
- Phone: 03 6166 1570 (Office of the Chief Nurse and Midwife)
- Phone: 07 4631 5315 (University of Southern Queensland)
- Website: https://usq.edu.au/study/degrees/bachelor-of-midwifery-graduate-entry
View the USQ handbook on the Bachelor of Midwifery
Becoming a doctor
The medical profession includes opportunities to work in:
- accredited university teaching hospitals
- mental health
- palliative care
- public health
- alcohol and drug services
- community health centres
- education
- research.
Public hospital training opportunities
Interns and Resident Medical Officers programs
You will gain training in:
- medicine
- surgery
- general training
Registrar programs
You will gain training in:
- general practice
- gastroenterology
- neurology
- paediatrics
- endocrinology
- genetics
- cardiology
- surgery
- ophthalmology
- psychiatry
- radiology
- pathology
- obstetrics and gynaecology
- emergency medicine
- anaesthesia.
How to apply
- You must complete an appropriate university qualification with the University of Tasmania.
- You must be registerable under Tasmania’s Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1996.
Find out more
University of Tasmania – Hobart campus
- Phone: 03 6226 4757
- Website: www.medicine.utas.edu.au
University of Tasmania – Launceston campus
- Phone 03 6348 8792
- Website: www.medicine.utas.edu.au
Download more information about medical careers with us in Tasmania
Becoming an allied health professional
Exciting opportunities for allied health professionals in:
- major hospitals
- rehabilitation
- palliative care
- health promotion
- oral health
- child health and development
- disabilities
- mental health
- schools
- occupational health
- research
- universities.
Download information about a career in allied health
Information regarding specific professions
Download information about specific allied health professions:
- Audiologist
- Oral Health Therapist
- Dietitian and Nutritionist
- Environmental Health Officer
- Epidemiologist
- Health Physicist
- Medical Physicist
- Occupational Therapist
- Orthoptist
- Perfusionist
- Pharmacist
- Physiotherapist
- Podiatrist
- Psychologist
- Radiation Therapist
- Radiographer
- Social Worker
- Speech Pathologist
- Welfare Worker
