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Med grads face no-man’s land
Hundreds of international medical students could miss out on internships when they graduate next year due to a “tsunami” of domestic graduates and a shortage of clinical places.
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1.It has been financially advantageous to Universities to enroll OS students in Medical Courses.
2.It is interesting that Australian students could not buy there way into some Australian programs in the same way OS students could.
3. Why are universities crying foul now when this situation has been predicted and known to the universities for many years and they are the ones who recruited OS students at the expense of Australian students?
4. There were medical and political forces at work to cause the workforce shortage of Australian doctors. An oversupply (relative) may be not such a bad thing for some areas and some patients.
5 Australian undergraduates and graduates are very reluctant to go to non-metropolitan areas of medical need for training and internships. So again there may be some good for patients appear out of the Tsunami of graduates.
6. Most new graduates will not want to work the traditional long hours as has been done in the past and the changing demographic of students means less full time equivalents.
7. There are more opportunities for 8.00 to 4.00 jobs in medicine and these are being filled in preference to the unpopular after hours work. A 28 hour week is less that 25% of the time in a week that patients can get sick. Try finding an after hours GP sometime.
8. Not everyone who studies medicine becomes a practicing doctor and we should not expect them to. This is the same in all professions. It is called competition and doctors may have to accept a degree of that in their life.
9.In my time in Medicine I have not noticed doctors doing poorly. I think we will survive this well.
10.The devastating longstanding short supply of doctors in some rural and regional areas of Australia is the real issue and not the concern of medical schools for their OS income stream. I suspect a self interest here.
The author should be sensitive about your language use.
Many people in Japan and their friend outside of Japan still suffer from the 3.11 disaster. ‘Tsunami’ claimed many lives.