Medical school students brought in to ease hospital staffing crisis
Final year med students are being paid to complete discharge summaries, cannulation, venepuncture as well as scribing on ward rounds
More than 1000 paid positions for final year medical students have been created in a bid to ease staff shortages in NSW hospitals.
They will be called Assistants in Medicine, with their work including completing discharge summaries, cannulation and venepuncture as well as scribing on ward rounds and organising consults.
The measure originally began as a pilot involving students who filled roles to deal with the workforce holes at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said the program had been so successful it will be expanded to 1100 positions a year.
