City GPs blamed for putting students off the bush
CITY GPs are putting young doctors off rural practice, according to experts, who say it is time to “point the finger” at educators and supervisors who are biased against the bush.
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Rural practice
The following articles have the tag Rural practice
‘Every day a surprise’ for award-winning rural GP
A GP who has practised in the NSW town of Gunnedah for three decades has declared “I have become a part of the community and the community has become a part of me” after being named the Westpac RDAA Rural Doctor of the Year.
More trainees welcome but rural incentives a priority
THE imminent expansion of the GP workforce must include strategies to ensure new doctors head to those areas where they are needed most, rural doctors say. RDAA and ACRRM have both welcomed the pledge to boost training numbers but warned that funding must go toward encouraging new doctors to practise in the bush. “We need to make sure that rural practice is financially viable so that [GP registrars] are actually going to want to join us in the future,” said RDAA president Dr Nola Maxfield. “There should be a loading on Medicare for services delivered in ...
Students focus on outback images to promote rural practice
STUNNING images of Australia seen through the eyes of the next generation of doctors and other health professionals have been used to promote rural practice to fellow students. From breathtaking landscapes, spectacular sunsets and wildlife, to still life and self-portraiture, the photo competition was designed to showcase the diversity of rural and remote practice settings. More than 300 students entered. Fiona Langelaan, co-chair of the National Rural Health Students’ Network, which ran the competition as part of its annual conference held last month in Cairns, said that she was excited to see the work of so many ...
Call for government to control practice locations
FEDERAL regulation of general practice location and size could be the first step in solving Australia’s GP workforce problems, according to a leading primary care academic. In a controversial submission to the National Primary Health Care Strategy, Associate Professor Graeme Miller, medical director of Sydney University’s Family Medicine Research Centre – which runs the BEACH program – has called for the introduction of limits on the number of MBS-supported practices in one geographic location. While GPs at existing practices would not lose their MBS rebates, GPs working at new practices would only have access to the MBS ...