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| Estimating the age of a doctor. |
| In 999 out of 1000 cases it takes at least six years at university for someone to get the degree or degrees required to get registered as a doctor. |
| And 999 out of 1000 doctors started university when they were 17 years of age or older. |
| So it is very unlikely that a doctor will have become a doctor before they were 23. |
| So, on this basis, if a doctor was awarded his or her degree or degrees in say, 1970, (as per the NSW Medical Board's website,) they were born in 1947 at the latest, and so, conservatively, they would be aged 63 in 2010. |
| These are the assumptions MQ&A makes in estimating the ages of doctors - which we do for the convenience of our readers. (You could easily do it yourself.) |
| Of course, if the doctor started university when he or she was older than 17, and/or they took longer than 6 years to get their degrees, then adjustments have to be made accordingly. |
| And, of course, if the year they were awarded their degrees is wrong on the NSW Medical Board's website - and this sort of thing can happen with the NSW Medical Board - then our calculations are completely invalidated. |
Created: 8 Feb 2009 Updated: 15 Apr 2010 |