In a bid to boost the number of rural practitioners, the Turnbull Government has ramped up funding for The University of Newcastle’s Department of Rural Health.
Students from campuses at Taree, Tamworth and Moree will now have access to longer rural clinical placements due to a 37 per cent funding boost, to be delivered over the next three years.
“That means in the undergraduate position when they’re here as medical, or nursing or physio students, or as young dentists or in the post graduate space,” said Federal Member for Lyne and Federal Assistant Minister for Rural Health, Dr. David Gillespie.
“Studies have shown that people that have a level of training and actually grow up in smaller towns are more likely to go back to those when they graduate,” said University of Newcastle’s Taree campus medical student, Ross Hayhurst.
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