AI.. A COISA TA BRABA...DIFICIL ENCONTRAR POSICAO PARA RESIDENTE..POS FACULDADE..O INTERNSHIP DAQUI.. .Internship cuts may cause graduate exodus A SHORTFALL in medical internships next year will force possibly hundreds of new graduates to quit Australia, partly due to the axing of a popular GP placement scheme. An audit by the National Medical Intern Data Management Working Group of offers received so far indicates about 240 foreign-born Australian graduates will miss out on state or territory positions in 2015. “If these students don’t find internships they will go overseas and they won’t come back,” said Australian Medical Students’ Association president Jessica Dean. “Australia will lose those doctors.” She said the outflow of locally trained talent – even as the country imports foreign-trained practitioners to ease doctor shortages – was both wasteful and ethically dubious. “Completing an internship is essential for a graduate to work as a doctor in Australia. If the government is serious about correcting the ongoing doctor shortage, it makes sense to completely utilise the gradating Australian shortage.” The training bottleneck has grown predictably as intern places have not kept pace with growth in the number of medical students. The loss of the Prevocational General Practice Placements Program (PGPPP), an alternative to hospital internships that was abolished in the May federal budget as a cost-cutting measure, will add to the squeeze on graduate training positions as of this year. In South Australia, the abolition of the PGPPP scheme led to the removal of 23 intern positions, AMSA said. To shore up internships for international students, the current federal government pledged $10 million over four years to fund “up to 100” internships annually outside the state and territory system. Last year, the so-called Commonwealth Medical Initiative paid for just 76 positions in the private sector, a number that would still leave more than 100 graduates out in the cold. A decision on the number of this year’s intake is expected in November. “We are hoping the government will consider funding more places this year, but in the current climate we are not holding our breath,” Ms Dean said. The association was “disappointed” that Health Minister Peter Dutton has so far not been available to discuss the issue, she said. AMA vice president Dr Stephen Parnis described the prospect of Australian-trained medical graduates being forced overseas as a “shameful waste”. “There are many Australian communities, particularly in rural and regional Australia, that are in desperate need of doctors,” he said. “It is a shameful waste of a vital resource if we have hundreds of medical graduates unable to become doctors because of short-sighted governments.” “Every year we get a commitment to medical training from governments, and every year we seem to be getting a lack of commitment to provide sufficient intern positions. “All governments must sign up to a medical training plan, and stick with it, Dr Parnis said.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:32:39 +0000
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