Building A National Health And Hospitals Network - Training Record Numbers Of Junior Doctors In General Practice
The Australian Government will invest $148 million to ensure that more junior doctors can experience a career in general practice before they become a fully fledged doctor.
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15 March 2010
The Rudd Government will invest $148 million to ensure that more junior doctors can experience a career in general practice before they become a fully fledged doctor.
The Government’s investments will expand overall training capacity in the system, as well as encourage more graduating students to choose a career in general practice.
The numbers of Australian medical students that are graduating in the next five years are expected to double from 1,738 in 2008 to around 3,108 in 2014.
To help ensure more of these students have access to training opportunities in general practice when they graduate from medical school, the Government will expand the successful Prevocational General Practice Placements Program to 975 places by 2013-14, up from the 400 places which are currently available.
This investment will provide an additional 575 students per year with the opportunity to undertake a 10-12 week placement in general practice after they graduate from medical school.
As a result, it:
- will more than double the number of places available in the program currently;
- represents a 250 per cent increase in the number of places available in this program since the Rudd Government came to office.
This allows them to make these choices based on good training and experience in General Practice, during the years where most doctors choose their future career.
For those students who do not eventually become GPs, their personal experience becomes a vital part of improving the integration between the hospital system and GP services in the community.
This investment builds on the Commonwealth’s commitment to permanently fund 60 per cent of teaching and research in our public hospital system.
This major investment will build on the Commonwealth’s commitment to taking full funding and policy responsibility for all GP services and primary care.
This investment will be included and offset across the forward estimates in the 2010-11 Budget, consistent with the Government's strict fiscal strategy.
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