Comments on: Medical students in Australia should be "learning, not earning" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/medical-students-in-australia-should.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: ipanemahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/medical-students-in-australia-should.html#comment-63818 ipanema Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/medical-students-in-australia-should-be-learning-not-earning.html#comment-63818 Where have all their doctors gone? Suffering from brain drain perhaps.<br/><br/><br/>Australia welcomes skilled workers with open arms, especially IT experts. If you're in this category, it's easy to process immigrant visas. Just as Samson Isberg explained, for medical practitioners, it's quite tough to enter. Where have all their doctors gone? Suffering from brain drain perhaps.

Australia welcomes skilled workers with open arms, especially IT experts. If you’re in this category, it’s easy to process immigrant visas. Just as Samson Isberg explained, for medical practitioners, it’s quite tough to enter.

]]> By: Samson Isberghttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/06/medical-students-in-australia-should.html#comment-63812 Samson Isberg Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/06/medical-students-in-australia-should-be-learning-not-earning.html#comment-63812 Aussies have no-one to blame but themselves; as long as they AMA has closed the door so firmly against immigrant doctors ("Overseas trained" they call it) as they have, they are doomed to training their own.<br/><br/>And when that kind of attitude is combined with a litiginous environment second only to the USA, it's no wonder they must try to press the young and innocent to do the doctor's work. <br/><br/>"For those who came across the sea, we've boundless plains to share..." - but not for doctors, it would seem. Aussies have no-one to blame but themselves; as long as they AMA has closed the door so firmly against immigrant doctors (“Overseas trained” they call it) as they have, they are doomed to training their own.

And when that kind of attitude is combined with a litiginous environment second only to the USA, it’s no wonder they must try to press the young and innocent to do the doctor’s work.

“For those who came across the sea, we’ve boundless plains to share…” – but not for doctors, it would seem.

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