Rural medical schools and regional placements helping address doctor shortages in country Australia
ABCMaggie-Kate Minogue was seven when she realised she wanted to be a doctor. She believes rural medical schools could play a critical role in overcoming doctor shortages in country areas. "There is a lot of optimism about future training pathways and encouraging the upcoming high school and university students to embrace rural culture and to stay rural while training," she says. Dr Kane believes rural medical schools and increased clinical student placements outside the big cities are important ways to encourage the next rural generation to study medicine. "The pathways for a rural person to become a doctor has become more streamlined in recent years through various access initiatives, as well as the establishment of rural clinical schools," Dr Kane says.
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