Pathologist (ANZSCO 253915)

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 Pathologist 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 Pathologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia assesses this code, but RCPA's own site returns an access-blocked response on every path tried, so this research draws on the AMC's accreditation reports of RCPA instead — a 2016 report, the most recent this dossier could locate, and a 2024/25 report of RACP that describes the joint RCPA link. RCPA assesses across seven named fields: general pathology, anatomical pathology including cytopathology, chemical pathology, haematology, immunology, microbiology, and forensic pathology.

Where these applications come unstuck

The confusable-code trap runs in the opposite direction from Clinical Haematologist (253313): RCPA runs joint training programs with RACP in haematology, immunology and allergy/immunology, and completing one of those joint programs awards both FRCPA and FRACP together. An applicant whose overseas training resembles a joint-program stream may have a plausible route to this code even if their day-to-day clinical work looks more like the RACP-assessed Clinical Haematologist role — the training stream, not the job title, decides it.

An honest read on this pathway

RCPA's own current comparability category definitions and supervised-practice durations could not be confirmed — the AMC material sourced here describes RCPA's specialty structure and joint-program links, not its standalone pathway timeframes, and the most specific RCPA-only report available is a decade old. Treat the field list and joint-program link as solid; check rcpa.edu.au directly, or contact the college, before relying on any specific timeframe.

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