The New South Wales Government has released a discussion paper titled Securing a Stable Medical Workforce for NSW Rural Communities which sets out the framework to support a rural generalist training program and rural pathway for GP training in NSW.

 

The paper proposes a training pathway to encourage increased numbers of medical graduates to choose rural and procedural general practice as their preferred training and career choice.

 

The Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner, said the NSW pathway for rural general practice training is designed to provide medical graduates with a structured training program which balances community general practice exposure with rural hospital experience.

 

Feedback on the discussion paper is requested by Friday, 30 September, 2011.

 

The discussion paper can be found here