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Support for new doctors needed
12 March 2008
AMA Victoria is urging the Health Minister to channel extra funds and resources into training and supporting Victoria’s new doctors as the State Government moves to double its overseas trained doctor intake over the next six years.
The call comes as a Victorian DHS officer arrives in London, specially briefed to “sell” the advantages of moving to Victoria to practise medicine.
“By 2014 one in four Victorian doctors will be overseas-trained,” said AMA Victoria President Dr Doug Travis.
“We have already seen an increase in the number of overseas trained doctors practising in Victoria and they are doing a great job at filling the medical workforce shortages left by inadequate Federal Government planning more than a decade ago.
“We are going to see the number of overseas trained doctors double by 2014 – to make up one quarter of the medical workforce – so we must be prepared to offer our new doctors the training and support needed to maintain Victoria’s high standards of health care.
“Government needs to provide assistance to existing doctors to allow them to take on larger training and support roles.”
Dr Travis said he was pleased that the UK recruiting move was under way but he was disappointed that it had to be done.
DHS Projected Victorian Medical Workforce Supply and Demand November 2007
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Year
|
No. of overseas trained doctors
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% of medical workforce
|
|
2006
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1,889
|
11.9
|
|
2007
|
2,174
|
13.6
|
|
2008
|
2,469
|
15.3
|
|
2009
|
2,804
|
17.2
|
|
2010
|
3,171
|
19.2
|
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2011
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3,562
|
21.2
|
|
2012
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4,042
|
23.1
|
|
2013
|
4,557
|
25.0
|
|
2014
|
5,111
|
26.9
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