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…
Tag: Medical students
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…
The ‘hidden curriculum’ in medical schools undermines general practice, says top dean
The RACGP and ACRRM have failed to fill training positions, and a generation of GPs are nearing retirement — so it is no surprise alarm…
Govt to scrap $27 million in GPs’ medical school debts – as long as they go rural
GPs will be freed from the burden of their medical student fees under the latest plan to fix the workforce crisis, a plan that will refund…
Medical students reveal 15-point plan to make general practice the most attractive specialty
Creating a ‘GP assistant’ role for medical students and letting GP registrars receive teaching payments are among 15 recommendations for convincing new graduates to train…
Is it now better to be a ‘nice’ doctor than a good one?
I recently examined a GP case for a final-year medical school live exam. Both I and the simulated-patient actor, a layperson, independently graded the medical…
How we became doctors in the old days – in 8 steps
Go back to the 1950s, and the progress through to established practice was very different — both personally and professionally — from the way it…
Why the junior doctor title is an insult and needs to go
Clinical Professor Scarlett McNally, an English orthopaedic surgeon, believes it is time to drop the term ‘junior doctor’, arguing that “it is demeaning and anachronistic…
Doctors told to give up the human skeletons in their closets
Bones were acquired on a 'mass scale' by doctors last century, but now they're being asked to dispose of them ethically.
