After decades working as a doctor in Northern Australia, Dr Jacki Mein’s journey to becoming an RVTS registrar – and ultimately RVTS Chair – had a surprising start, writes Patrick Daley. With a love of the ocean, Dr Jacki Mein always wanted to be a marine biologist. While her career path ultimately was a medical...
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Incredible journey: Two RVTS alumni, three kids, two dachshunds…and their path to rural practice Husband and wife doctor team, Dr Erin Hawkey and Dr Ian Murphy, completed their advanced Rural Generalist (RG) training through RVTS and recently fellowed as FACRRMs (Ian last September and Erin in May). They now work as RGs in rural Victoria....
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“Bula!” in Boggabri – a Fijian doctor’s Targeted Recruitment experience. Originally from Fiji, Dr Salma Hanif moved from Tasmania to the small town of Boggabri in north-western NSW in 2020 to undertake her advanced GP training as part of RVTS’s Targeted Recruitment pathway. She told Patrick Daley she has been really pleased with the support...
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Media Release A unique national GP training program that enables doctors to gain their specialist qualification in General Practice – while living and working as a doctor in a rural or remote community – will benefit dozens of communities across Australia in 2021, including Junee in southern NSW. Dr Amal Boshra is among 32 doctors...
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Media Release A unique national GP training program that enables doctors to gain their specialist qualification in General Practice – while living and working as a doctor in a rural or remote community – will benefit dozens of communities across Australia in 2021, including Bega in the Far South Coast region of NSW. Dr Anuj...
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Media Release A unique national GP training program that enables doctors to gain their specialist qualification in General Practice – while living and working as a doctor in a rural or remote community – will benefit dozens of communities across Australia in 2021, including Tumbarumba in southern NSW. Dr Agga Nabukeera is among 32 doctors...
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Media Release A unique national GP training program that enables doctors to gain their specialist qualification in General Practice – while living and working as a doctor in a rural or remote community – will benefit dozens of communities across Australia in 2021, including Clarence Town in the Hunter region of NSW. Dr Aimen Saif...
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The introduction of the RVTS Targeted Recruitment Strategy in 2018 to boost the recruitment of doctors in locations of high medical workforce need has been a huge success…offering GP Fellowship training as an extra ‘carrot’ to attract doctors to some of Australia’s most remote communities.
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What a year it’s been. As 2020 draws to a close, I will not even attempt to comment on what has been a most extraordinary year, except to say that we would like to salute the RVTS Registrars, supervisors and staff for their courage and perseverance, their passion and understanding, their strength and commitment and...
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