The facts that shape your strategy
Start with the four signals that affect pathway choice. Detailed evidence and caveats remain available below.
What Intensive Care Specialist does
Your duties—not your job title—are what determine whether ANZSCO 253317 is the right code for your assessment.
“diagnose and treat internal human disorders and diseases using specialist testing, diagnostic and medical techniques. Medical Registrars training as Specialist Physician s are included in this unit group”
Unit group 2533“Investigates, diagnoses and treats patients in need of intensive and critical care. Registration or licensing is required.”
Occupation 253317- examining patients to determine the nature and extent of problems after referral from General Medical Practitioners and other medical specialists, and undertaking laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures
- analysing test results and other medical information to make diagnoses
- prescribing and administering drugs, and remedial and therapeutic treatment and procedures
- recording medical information and data
- reporting specified contagious and notifiable diseases to government health and immigration authorities
- may admit or refer patients to hospitals
- may consult other medical specialists
Default edition — 27 June 2013
- examining patients to determine the nature and extent of problems after referral from General Medical Practitioners and other medical specialists, and undertaking laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures
- analysing test results and other medical information to make diagnoses
- prescribing and administering drugs, and remedial and therapeutic treatment and procedures
- recording medical information and data
- reporting specified contagious and notifiable diseases to government health and immigration authorities
- may admit or refer patients to hospitals
- may consult other medical specialists
Employer nomination only — 482, 186, 187
Salary context for this unit group
This is a unit-group benchmark, not a promise of individual earnings. Location, experience, employment type and overtime all affect pay.
Specialist physicians, all employees — May 2025 survey. The bar shows the unit group’s relative position across the ABS earnings survey.
Compare routes by how they work
Visa numbers alone are hard to interpret. Grouping them by applicant goal makes the shortlist easier to understand.
Choose your pathway type
These are occupation-level possibilities, not a personal eligibility result.
What the 80-point figure means
Two different scores get called “the minimum”. Here is which is which.
Subclass 189 — Skilled Independent — June 2026 · lowest score invited, not a pass mark.
Subclass 189 — Skilled Independent
between 65 and 90, most recently 80.
Round-by-round recordLowest score invited
- June 202680
- November 202580
- August 202580
- November 202475
- September 202480
- June 2024—
- December 202365
- May 2023—
- December 2022—
- October 2022—
- August 2022—
- April 202290
— not listed in that round’s published results. DHA publishes the occupations invited in each round, not the ones that were not, so this does not mean nobody with this occupation was invited.
Scores move between rounds. The most recent result does not set the next one.
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Check my points →Expressions of interest lodged in SkillSelect
How many expressions of interest name this occupation, and the scores they hold.
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) - Points tested stream
A permanent visa for invited workers with skills Australia needs, to live and work anywhere in the country.
Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)
A permanent visa for skilled workers nominated by a state or territory.
Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491)
A provisional visa for skilled workers who want to live and work in regional Australia, nominated by a state or territory.
⚠ These pools are counted separately by visa subclass and are not additive — one expression of interest can name more than one subclass.
Source: Australian Government SkillSelect data, July 2026. Counts EOIs with a submitted or lodged status.
Your first four decisions
A shorter, action-led sequence replaces the original seven-step list. Later lodgement steps only matter once the pathway is confirmed.
Match your actual duties—not only your job title—to Intensive Care Specialist 253317.
Map qualifications, employment proof and practical experience.
Compare the routes above side by side before committing to one.
Improve English and points, then pursue the strongest route first.
Medical Board of Australia
MedBA decides whether your skills and experience meet the Australian standard for Intensive Care Specialist 253317.
- A skills assessment is tied to the occupation you nominate — the code on this page is what gets assessed, not your job title
- Requirements, fees and timing are set by the assessing authority, not by the Department
- A positive assessment does not by itself produce an invitation or a visa
- Most skilled visa applications need it decided before you lodge, so start early
Published list snapshot
Select a state or territory to inspect its published-list status. Always confirm on the nominating body's own page.
Select a region on the map — or use Tab and Enter — to see its published-list status.
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- NSWUnit group on published list
- VICNo list published
- QLDOn published list
- SANo list published
- WAOn published list
- TASOn published list
- NTNot on published list
- ACTOn published list
Employer-led alternatives
Some employers can sponsor workers under an agreement negotiated with the government. Whether one is open to you depends on the employer, the industry and the terms of that agreement.
There is no published list of which occupations each agreement covers, so this page cannot tell you either way. Only the employer holding the agreement can.
Where these skills sit
Related roles may share duties, but a migration assessment is always against the single occupation you nominate.
What applicants usually need clarified
This page names a skills assessing authority. Does that body decide my visa?
No. A skills assessing authority assesses whether your qualifications and experience meet the Australian standard for the occupation, and issues an assessment. The Department of Home Affairs decides the visa. A positive assessment is one requirement among several — it does not create an entitlement to a visa and it does not bind the Department’s decision. Which body assesses a given occupation is set by legislative instrument; it is not a choice you or we make.
This occupation is listed for a visa on this page. Does that mean I qualify for it?
No. A listing means a legislative instrument specifies this occupation for that visa. That is one criterion. Each visa has its own separate requirements — which may include age, English, a skills assessment, nomination or sponsorship, work experience, and in some cases a points score — and those are assessed against your circumstances, not against the occupation. A listing tells you a door exists. It does not tell you that you can walk through it.
Why does this page show two sets of duties, and does the code I nominate matter?
ANZSCO — the occupation classification — has more than one edition, and different migration instruments designate different editions. The Skills in Demand and Employer Nomination instruments specify ANZSCO as in force on 23 November 2022. Both editions appear here because which one applies depends on the instrument governing the visa you are applying for.
The code matters. Visa routes are specified per code, so two codes describing similar work can carry different routes. Establishing the correct code before you apply is not a clerical step.
See where you stand against everyone else applying in this occupation
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