What would help solve the rural workforce crisis?
17th April 2012
By Jo Hartley
Debate around the alleged use and abuse of IMG doctors to prop up the rural medical workforce has been raging on Australian Doctor’s website since a report on the registration and support of IMG doctors was tabled in Parliament in mid-March.
The report Lost in the Labyrinth, drawn up by the House of Representatives’ standing committee on health and ageing, officially acknowledges the discriminatory nature of the 10-year moratorium