Longer placements could ease rural doctor shortage

RF
Updated July 23 2019 - 9:45am, first published July 19 2019 - 4:20pm
Twenty-nine-year-old student doctor James Greenhalgh had two main choices for his third year placement - stay in Adelaide to work in a city hospital or travel to the NT to work remote.
Twenty-nine-year-old student doctor James Greenhalgh had two main choices for his third year placement - stay in Adelaide to work in a city hospital or travel to the NT to work remote.

Despite more doctors than ever before churning through Australian universities, hospitals are still struggling to attract workers to remote regions.

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