Urgent Action Needed to Ensure the Future Family Doctor Workforce
(WorldNews Asia)

AMA FAMILY DOCTOR WEEK, 21-27 July 2019 Your Family Doctor and You: Partnering for Health The AMA is warning that Australian communities will miss out on the vital health care provided by high-quality family doctors unless there is urgent action to encourage medical students and young doctors to choose general practice as their medical specialty. AMA President, Dr Tony Bartone, a Melbourne GP for more than 30 years, said today that it is a tragedy that GP training places are going unfilled. `Since 2015, we have seen a 20 per cent fall in the number of applications for GP training, and a six per cent drop in the number of first year GP training posts filled,` Dr Bartone said. `In 2019, 63...