Public Hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven have welcomed 63 new medical graduate interns, providing a welcome boost to the local health workforce.
Having completed their orientation, the junior doctors are already providing care to local patients and much needed support to the region’s hardworking health staff.
Interns are medical graduates who have completed their medical degree and are required to complete a supervised year of practice in order to gain general registration.
The interns will work with and learn from NSW Health’s experienced and highly skilled medical staff in one of the world’s best health systems.
The new doctors starting their internship will be entering a training program with networked hospitals throughout the state, providing formal and on-the-job training.
They receive two-year contracts to rotate between metropolitan, regional and rural hospitals to ensure the diversity of their experience.
The interns also rotate across different specialties during the intern year, including surgery, medicine and emergency medicine.
The Minns Labor Government is building an engaged, capable and supported workforce, by:
- Abolishing the wages cap and delivering the largest wage increase to healthcare workers in a decade;
- Implementing ratios in our emergency departments;
- Saving 1,112 nurses which the Liberal Government planned to sack;
- Supporting our future health workforce by providing them with study subsidies
