Dermatologist (ANZSCO 253911)

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 Dermatologist 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 Dermatologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

The Australasian College of Dermatologists assesses this code, not the AMC — but ACD's own site could not be reached for this research (it returns an access-blocked response on every path tried). What is confirmed comes from the AMC's own 2023 accreditation report of ACD, which rates the college "Met" against Standard 9, assessment of specialist international medical graduates, in both 2022 and 2023, and notes ACD's IMG assessment processes remain largely unchanged, with added website guidance on upskilling timelines and interview preparation.

Where these applications come unstuck

The AMC report confirms ACD runs a live, regulator-approved SIMG comparability process; it does not itself publish ACD's specific comparability category definitions, supervised-practice durations, or any expedited-pathway eligibility. Do not assume dermatology mirrors RACP's or RACS' twelve/twenty-four-month figures — those numbers are college-specific and dermatology's have not been independently confirmed here. Treat any figure quoted for ACD from a source other than dermcoll.edu.au itself with caution.

An honest read on this pathway

ACD's process is confirmed to exist and to be in current regulatory good standing, which is a genuine, sourced fact worth having. But the operational detail an applicant actually needs — timeframes, category definitions, country-specific rules if any — sits only on ACD's own site, which this research could not access. Check dermcoll.edu.au directly before relying on any comparability figure for dermatology from elsewhere.

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.

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