As Australia faces a GP drought, the number of medical graduates wanting to go into general practice has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade.
13.1 per cent of medical graduates say they want to pursue a career as a GP, the lowest proportion since 2012
“That was the moment, as clichéd as it sounds, where I just felt I wanted to be the doctor in those scenarios,” she said. “GPs out there have to be jacks of all trades, and they are – because that’s what the community needs.” Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Nicole Higgins said the decline was “a reflection of the last 10 years, where there’s been an undervaluing of general practice”. She hoped the federal government’s“It takes 10 years [of training] to be a specialist GP, so we need to value it,” she said.through the college in 2023, a 30 per cent drop since 2017. The 1248 accepted into the program is slightly down on the 2022 intake of 1313 graduates.
The number of students who hoped to work in rural and remote medicine jumped to 5.8 per cent, and 38 per cent of students surveyed said they wanted to practice in regional cities, towns and rural communities, regardless of their chosen field. Canceri completed a year-long placement in Bathurst under the state government’s Assistants in Medicine program, but as the hospital was unable to guarantee the position would be funded by the incoming Labor government beyond 2023, she moved back to Sydney earlier this year to take up an emergency medicine internship at Campbelltown Hospital.
“We need to continue to expand this, but also make sure that those graduates who wish to can stay in the regions during their internship and postgraduate training,” she said.
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