It is pleasing to see an increase in the number of students interested in rural medicine in the latest Medical Schools Outcome Database National Data Report.

It shows that the efforts of medical schools and interest groups to expose medical students to rural practice is paying off in some ways.

However, other findings from the survey are frustrating to me and other medical students looking to enter general practice in a few years’ time.

Medical students are aware of the current uncertainty within general practice and are not immune to the media coverage that general practice has been attracting.