Health graduates from medical schools are being inundated with the latest and greatest in the medical profession, and the trend is being driven by a shortage of good candidates.
News.au has found the shortage of qualified medical school graduates is driving a trend of poor medical schools and medical products, as well as the lack of good quality medical equipment.
The medical field is struggling to maintain its image as a “good doctor in” when it comes to quality and patient safety, according to Dr. David Crampton, the president of the Australasian Medical Association.
“It is a problem.
We’ve seen that it’s not just a problem in the past but we’ve seen it now in our own schools,” Dr. Cramton said.
He said many graduates were leaving to join a tertiary institution because they could not find the right school.
“Some people say they’ve got to go to the university or the tertiary, and they don’t realise that if you go there, you are basically just moving away from what is a very, very high quality medical school,” Dr Cramtons told News.org.au.
He urged medical students to be aware of the “real world” when considering attending medical school.
Dr Clampton said the lack and the shortage in medical education was a “real issue”.
“The reality is that we are not going to have a quality medical education for a long time,” Dr Darryl said.
“The truth is that the average medical school in Australia does not teach a quality of education for the average student.”
I think that in the next three years or so, we will have an even more important issue in the future, and that is, how do we recruit enough doctors?
“The Australian Medical Association says the shortage has hit graduates in many areas of the medical education system, but it also points out that it is not just in the academic realm.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says a lack of competition is a contributing factor in the shortage. “
There’s a real lack of experience in the profession and there’s a huge gap in the skills that are required in a very competitive profession,” he said.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says a lack of competition is a contributing factor in the shortage.
“A large number of medical graduates are not attending a quality tertiary or university medical school, and a significant number of these are simply not in a position to obtain a qualification,” AHIW chief executive Andrew Burch said.
Dr Burch says medical school enrolments are at record levels, but that many of those students may be leaving for other areas of their career, such as the community health field.
“We’re seeing more and more people in the workforce go into community health,” Dr Burs said.
Mr Burch also believes there is a need for greater community education.
“For a lot of young people who are getting their first medical qualification they may not know what the difference between a community doctor and a general practitioner,” he added.
“And they may have little or no training in community medicine or health care, or they may be just getting into the medical field to get a qualification.”
It’s the last place that people want to be and the last thing they want to go.
We are seeing more communities being represented in the healthcare system,” he explained. “
I think we have to look at it more seriously.
We are seeing more communities being represented in the healthcare system,” he explained.
“But if we are going to improve the quality of our medical education, we need to have more training in communities, and we need more training to help communities become doctors.”
Dr Buss says there is also a need to look beyond academic education.
