Fed: AMA says medical training is being downgraded

AAP General News (Australia)
02-18-2005
Fed: AMA says medical training is being downgraded

The Australian Medical Association says the quality of medical training is being eroded
because of the downgrading of public hospitals.

AMA president Dr BILL GLASSON has told a medical training conference that Australia's
great public hospitals are being destroyed because of a funding shortage.

He says public hospitals used to be icons of medical training.

Now, he says, private hospitals are carrying out 50 per cent of surgery across the country.

Dr GLASSON says public hospitals no longer have enough positions for junior doctors
and, due to the emphasis on service delivery, don't spend as much time training students.

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KEYWORD: MEDICAL GLASSON (SYDNEY)

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