Junior doctors go cold on GP training

And the Medicare freeze is to blame, says former RACGP president Dr Liz Marles
Dr Liz Marles
Dr Liz Marles.

The GP training program has failed to fill all its places for the second year running, as the number of junior doctors applying to join the specialty declines.

New figures reveal that 2015 doctors applied for the 1500 places on the program — with 1437 eventually filled (see box, below).