Let's grow our own medical professionals

• Study the first step for medical centre -  The Border Mail

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  • A PLAN to build a regional centre at Wangaratta to train medical graduates and retain health expertise in the North East and Riverina has been given a boost with the Victorian Government agreeing to fund a feasibility study.
    
    
    • This is the ONLY way to keep medical graduates in rural areas. The, reason we lose our graduates to the city is that, in completing their courses in capitol city universities, they meet and mate with others doing professional courses. Once married (or paired off), they have to consider the professional careers of both parties and the likelihood is that the opportunities they are exposed to are in the city of their tertiary education. Now, with a complete medical training facility in a country location (e.g. Wangaratta), the students will most likely come from regional areas. As they pair off and seek their career location, there is a much higher probability that they will spend their careers in the rural locations. It was once pointed out by a prominantan local politician that "Doctor's wives want to live in upmarket suburbs of the capital cities and living in 'the bush' is inconceivable to these ladies. Breed them here, educate them here, and keep country medicine viable. - post by gnaylor