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Last Updated: Nov 18, 2006 - 12:32:53 PM |
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AMA Sets Out Strategy To Get More Doctors Working in Rural and Regional Australia
AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, warned today that country Australians are experiencing a severe inequity of access to medical services that could last generations unless urgent concerted coordinated action is taken to address the rural medical workforce crisis. Releasing the AMA Position Statement on Regional/Rural Workforce Initiatives in Sydney, Dr Haikerwal said training a medical workforce with the necessary skills and the desire and motivation to work in country practice will take time and significant resources and incentives.
Nov 26, 2005 - 4:29:00 PM
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Birrell Report Reflects AMA Recommendations on OTD Assessment
AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today the AMA welcomes the latest report by Professor Bob Birrell, Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, into overseas trained doctors (OTDs) as an honest and intelligent appraisal of existing OTD assessment processes in Australia.
Sep 29, 2005 - 9:10:00 PM
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States Must Increase Advanced Surgical Training (AST) Places
AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today that the State Government Health Departments must increase the number of Advanced Surgical Training (AST) places they are offering this year and improve access to surgeons downstream - or risk a training bottleneck that will compound the already dire medical workforce shortages hitting Australian communities.
Sep 14, 2005 - 1:57:00 AM
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Stop Passing the Buck on Surgical Training
AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, said that State and Territory Government's needed to take the issue of surgical training more seriously, otherwise recent efforts to increase surgical training numbers would be wasted.
Apr 11, 2005 - 8:32:00 PM
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