Meet Tasmania’s New Generation of Doctors
Tasmania’s newest generation of doctors are being encouraged to consider a career in rural general practice, in a federally funded initiative spearheaded by Ochre Health.
The Rural Junior Doctor Training Innovation Fund is an internship program designed to recruit graduate doctors to work in rural and remote regions, beginning in Tasmania in January 2018. Coordinated by Ochre Health, the program will place 1 intern per centre into 5 rural medical centres across Tasmania for a total placement period of 13 weeks.
How it works
During this time, interns will accompany a senior GP on rounds in the local hospital, provide supervised consultations with patients, and generally get a broad exposure to the rigors of work as a rural GP.
Ochre will coordinate 20 intern placements throughout 2018, with the support contract running until 2020. Ochre Co-founder and chairman Dr Ross Lamplugh, who himself lives in Tasmania, believes that this program will be a boon to those young doctors who qualify.
“The rural primary care term will provide interns with hands-on patient experiences in multiple settings that will be beneficial to their careers, regardless of the future direction they will take.”
The first cohort of interns are spread across 4 of Ochre’s Tasmanian medical centres, with a 5th intern doing their placement in an independent medical centre in the Huon Valley.
Dr Jacqueline Lim – Queenstown
Dr Emily Doole – King Island
Dr Daniel Lack – Flinders island
Dr Eliza Burke-Polden – St Helens
Dr James Robinson – Huon Valley Health Centre
For more information on the program, please click here.
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