AMAV VICDOC Winter 2024 - Magazine - Page 47
WE NEED PERINATAL SUPPORT AND MENTAL
HEALTH CARE FOR OUR DOCTORS, AND WE
NEED CHILDCARE AND SCHOOL ACCESS
FOR DOCTORS IN RURAL AREAS.
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There are not enough schools here,
particularly high schools, to support
professional families to stay. There are
long wait lists and there is no guarantee
their children will get in. It used to be that
professional people that came to Shepparton
could always get their child into one of
the schools, but that’s not the case at the
moment. Our GPs and other healthcare
professionals are very valuable for our
community, but if they can't get their
children into good schools, they will leave.
BEING ABLE TO DO OUR ENTIRE TRAINING
RURALLY WOULD BE VERY GOOD FOR
RURAL HEALTH.
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By creating opportunities to do your entire
training as a specialist rurally, rural areas
would be less likely to lose skilled doctors
and other healthcare professionals back to
the cities. Making this happen involves more
funding, but also a shift in attitude from
the training colleges and urban clinicians,
who sometimes seem to think that urban
areas are the only ones that can deliver good
healthcare. As an aside, I’d also like to see
more gender-bias awareness training for the
men in our profession, because they don’t
realise they’re biased, and often are.
By creating opportunities to do your entire
training as a specialist rurally, rural areas would
be less likely to lose skilled doctors and other
healthcare professionals back to the cities.
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