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University of Melbourne

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IMGs reject claims of higher board complaints

IMGs reject claims of higher board complaints

INTERNATIONAL medical graduates (IMGs) have rejected the findings of a study indicating international graduates are more likely than their Australian-trained counterparts to attract complaints and adverse findings.

$50k to lure GPs? They’d prefer a shot at surgery

INCREASING the prospect of procedural work would encourage more junior doctors to enter general practice than a $50,000 pay rise, a new study suggests.

$50k to lure new GPs? They’d prefer a shot at surgery

INCREASING the prospect of procedural work would encourage more junior doctors to enter general practice than a $50,000 pay rise, a new study suggests.

Professor Michael Kidd

Rush to MDs may ‘bankrupt’ health

AUSTRALIAN medical schools are rushing to switch from MBBS degrees to masters-level MDs in a cultural shift that will either “bankrupt the healthcare system” or bring Australian medical education on to the world stage, experts have said.

Gene research ‘links’ human to wallaby

SURPRISING new research into sequencing the first kangaroo genome – that of the tammar wallaby – has discovered a gene that may have assisted early human development. The research also reveals genes that might have been involved in the kangaroo’s characteristic hop and its unusual reproductive system. While at first glance there might be little to connect the tammar wallaby with humans, other than they are both mammals that lactate their young, scientists from the University of Melbourne and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have found we share thousands of genes. Studying ...