4 reasons general practice is failing to attract new doctors
“We have heard it loud and clear from our members that general practice is on its knees and is not sustainable”. These are not the…
Tag: Medical students
First medical school for Top End
Darwin is to get its own medical school to start training doctors for the NT.
Bonded medical scheme reopens after contract fiasco
Doctors in legal limbo from the government's bungle are still 'in the dark' about their individual circumstances, says the AMA's Dr Hashim Abdeen.…
‘No penalties’ for doctors in bonded scheme contract fiasco: Hunt
Last month, participants in revamped bonded medical program were told that health officials had botched their paperwork.
Doctors on bonded schemes in ‘legal limbo’ after govt contract bungle
The Department of Health says doctors could have breached conditions of previous agreements as a result of its blunder.
New medical school admissions test ‘favours male applicants’
The UMAT was scrapped this year and replaced with a new computer-based exam.
Applications open for the AMA’s Indigenous Medical Scholarship
The scholarship is valued at $10,000 per annum, paid for the full course of a medical degree.
Med student’s clinical guide for darker skin viewed 100 million times
UK student Malone Mukwende's handbook of signs in patients with black and brown skin aims to fill a gap in current medical textbooks.
Becoming a doctor is stressful, but failure isn’t always bad
As appears to be my thing these days, in the early hours of a recent morning, I started thinking about the stresses of exams. I…
Is medical education ‘too male, too pale and too stale’?
UK students responding to a survey on gender bias report that if you don't look like 'an old white guy' you're not welcome: BMJ Open.
