Paediatric Surgeon (ANZSCO 253516)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Paediatric Surgeon on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Paediatric Surgeon comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Paediatric Surgery is one of RACS' nine named surgical specialties, assessed through the same Specialist Assessment process as the college's other eight. RACS reviews scope of practice, training history, recent specialist practice and continuing development on paper first, and only proceeds to interview if that review does not already resolve the case to "not comparable" — where it does, the interview component of the assessment fee is refunded rather than charged.

Where these applications come unstuck

Paediatric surgery is a narrow subspecialty, and RACS' recency-of-practice standard — roughly twelve months worked in the specialty within the past twenty-four — assumes a documented, continuous caseload specifically in paediatric cases, not general surgery with occasional paediatric work folded in. A surgeon whose overseas practice mixed adult and paediatric caseloads needs to demonstrate the paediatric-specific component clearly, since RACS assesses comparability against Australian paediatric surgical training specifically.

An honest read on this pathway

RACS' three outcomes apply here as elsewhere: substantially comparable up to twelve months FTE supervised practice, partially comparable up to twenty-four, both under RACS-approved supervisors, with 28 days to accept the recommended pathway once issued. Paediatric Surgery carries no separate fast-track or reduced requirement within RACS' structure — it is one of nine specialties assessed on the same document-first, interview-if-needed basis.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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