Why does everyone assume medical students are from rich families?
Medical students who are struggling financially say they are shocked that a $427 million budget investment to pay students during placements will not include medicine.…
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Paying medical students to work as clinical assistants could fix specialist shortages, experts say
Paying final year medical students to work as clinical assistants — a model successfully trialled during COVID-19 — could be the key to easing workforce…
It’s time to stop the bandaid solutions and get serious about fixing general practice
The release of the RACGP’s Health of the Nation 2023 report this week has further generated essential discussions about the attraction and retention of the…
Most GPs would not recommend the specialty to students or junior doctors: RACGP survey
GPs’ job satisfaction is falling, and fewer than half would recommend general practice as a specialty, according to the RACGP’s latest Health of the Nation…
RACGP wants Medicare rebates for GPs teaching students and registrars
Medicare rebates for GPs to teach medical students and registrars will bolster training and ultimately boost the GP workforce, says the RACGP. The workforce crisis…
‘I always wanted to be a doctor – 12 kids later I’m about to start medical school’
As she entered her teens in the 1990s with an obsession for the British TV show called Casualty, Rosemary Murphy set her heart on making it…
Med schools need ‘zero-tolerance policy’ on derogatory comments about GPs: report
All medical schools should have GPs in senior academic roles to counter negative biases against the specialty, says a report by Medical Deans Australia and…
We know how to lure medical graduates to general practice, but no-one is listening
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…
GP placements for medical students ‘too little, too late’
Tisshapaa Sivagnanan wants to be a rural generalist. As a medical student, she completed two GP placements in North and Central Queensland, then a six-week…
Is general practice becoming less attractive to medical students? Here’s what new data tell us
“The most terrifying statistic in healthcare” has become a little scarier, with another fall in the percentage of medical students whose first-choice specialty is general…
