Norman Swan
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15,981 appearances
143 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard 3d ago
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I opening.
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And terrifying.
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And remove the stigma.
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Agree.
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On ABC Radio National, you're listening to the health report.
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Last week we had a story about training doctors in Australia in the surgical pathway.
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And the fact that there appears to be a bottleneck and people are kind of grueling for years, not quite getting onto a training programme, no career prospects that are actually final, that are accredited surgeon positions.
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And we talked to the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.
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Who did put out a media release a few days later?
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Yeah.
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From doctors actually, from health professionals, which is the interesting part because let's start with Paul, who writes, These doctors also work in obstetrics and gynecology.
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So that's the Royal Australia-New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rands Cog.
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There is an urgent need for a health workforce plan, as the federal government seems to think that merely increasing medical student numbers is the fix when without further specialist training posts, there will
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will be an increasingly bad bottleneck.
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Fascinating stuff.
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Priya, not me, Priya with an eye, has written in and works in pediatrics, and says there are also many non-accredited registrar posts across Victoria.
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I did approximately two years of these before starting my training here.
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These posts are almost identical in the type of work you do.
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Whilst I have no doubt this extra clinical experience makes me a more accomplished specialist, it did lead
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