OSCA 2024 · 264337 · Skill level 1
Intensive Care Specialist: OSCA 264337
ABS OSCA 2024 v1.0 · visa lists checked 21 October 2026
Intensive Care Specialist is OSCA 2024 code 264337. It corresponds to 2 ANZSCO codes (253317 and 253321). All of them are on Australia's skilled visa lists, which still use ANZSCO codes.
ANZSCO equivalent
ANZSCO codes for OSCA 264337
Skilled visa lists still use ANZSCO codes, so this is the code that decides your visa options.
ANZSCO 253317
Intensive Care Specialist
On the Core Skills Occupation List, Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List.
Visas for ANZSCO 253317ANZSCO 253321 · in part
Paediatrician
On the Core Skills Occupation List, Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List.
Visas for ANZSCO 253321
The job
What an intensive care specialist does
Investigates, diagnoses and treats patients in need of intensive and critical care.
Skill level 1: Bachelor degree or higher, or at least 5 years of relevant experience
Registration or licensing is required.
Also known as
- Intensive Care Medicine Specialist
- Intensivist
Main tasks
Main tasks
- Examines and manages critically ill patients with life-threatening organ system failure, those at risk of clinical deterioration, as well as those requiring resuscitation
- Manages patients in an intensive care or high dependency unit, and maintains precise patient records
- Monitors and adjusts ventilation settings for patients on life support, and prescribes and administers medications and treatments
- Requests laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures, and analyses results with other medical information to make diagnoses
- Oversees end-of-life care and the diagnosis of brain death
Unit group 2643
Other occupations in Physicians
- 264331 General Medicine Physician
- 264332 Cardiologist
- 264333 Endocrinologist
- 264334 Gastroenterologist
- 264335 Geriatrician
- 264336 Haematologist
- 264338 Medical Oncologist
- 264341 Nephrologist
- 264342 Neurologist
- 264343 Paediatrician
- 264344 Public Health Physician
- 264345 Respiratory Physician
- 264346 Rheumatologist
- 264399 Physicians nec
Questions
OSCA 264337: common questions
What is the OSCA code for intensive care specialist?
What is the ANZSCO code for OSCA 264337?
Is Intensive Care Specialist on Australia's skilled occupation lists?
Does Home Affairs use OSCA codes for visas?
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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA 2024 v1.0 (CC BY 4.0); Department of Home Affairs, checked 21 October 2026. General information only, not immigration advice.
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