Longer obstacle courses may not produce better doctors
Intern training is now formally under scrutiny. As part of a review commissioned by the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC) and led by Andrew Wilson and Anne Marie Feyer, a discussion paper was released in February this year that raised a number of questions and made a number of assumptions.1 That paper mentions the Canadian experience, and hence the internship described below is salutary.
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- 1. Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC). Review of medical intern training. Discussion paper. February 2015. http://www.samet.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Medical-Intern-Training-Review-Discussion-Paper-February-2015.pdf (accessed May 2015).
- 2. Best JB, Boyer SL, De Lacy CJ, et al. Murray to the Mountains intern training program: involvement of small health services, Med J Aust 2015; 200: 378-380. <MJA full text>
- 3. Hirsch F. Social limits to growth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
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