The Morrison Joyce Government is investing more than $4 million across country Australia to increase access to specialists for patients and encourage more specialists to undertake their training in regional, rural and remote areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The funding will be shared across eight projects that will support more specialists \u2013 such as dermatologists, emergency medicine specialists, sports and exercise physicians, surgeons and psychiatrists \u2013 to undertake rural and regional placements and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Federal Regional Health Minister, Dr David Gillespie said the investment through the Morrison Joyce Government\u2019s Flexible Approach to Training in Expanded Settings (FATES) program will use innovative approaches to better support trainee specialists in locations with shortages of specialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is strong evidence that undertaking medical training in a regional or rural setting increases retention rates,\u201d former regional doctor, Dr Gillespie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Morrison Joyce Government is rapidly expanding and innovating rural training opportunities not only for non-GP specialists such as this, but for GPs, nurses and allied health professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis investment will improve distribution and supply of specialist medical training in areas of undersupply that will also meet the needs of regional, rural and remote communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, said several of the projects will trial new methods for supervising non-GP specialist trainees, including remote supervision, rotation of supervisors, and a hybrid model which blends on-site and remote supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne in particular will be delivered as a consortia approach in collaboration with the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people trained as non-GP medical specialists across most specialities,\u201d Minister Hunt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Gillespie said he often heard dermatologists and psychiatrists are in short supply in country Australia, and three projects funded in today\u2019s announcement would directly assist with getting more of these two specialities to the bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Australasian College of Dermatologists will roll out two programs that will boost training opportunities for this speciality in Townsville, Darwin and Katherine,\u201d Dr Gillespie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPsychiatrists are in undersupply nationally, especially in rural and remote areas. The funded project being ran by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists will employ three specialists that will play a crucial role in implementing the national Rural Psychiatry Training Pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Projects are located in Queensland, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, with others focussed more broadly in rural and remote area across Australia so that all country patients can benefit from this investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The FATES program will run for four years from 2021-22, providing a total of $29.5 million for new and innovative approaches to non-GP medical specialist training, and support for trainee specialists to transition to rural practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Project details:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Morrison Joyce Government is investing more than $4 million across country Australia to increase access to specialists for patients and encourage more specialists to undertake their training in regional, rural and remote areas. The funding will be shared across eight projects that will support more specialists \u2013 such as dermatologists, emergency medicine specialists, sports … Continue reading “The Australian Government invests $4.2 million to get specialists in the bush”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15670,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669\/revisions\/15670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Specialist medical college<\/strong><\/td> Project title<\/strong><\/td> Location<\/strong><\/td> Funding amount<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Australasian College of Dermatologists<\/strong><\/td> An innovative and collaborative model of hybrid supervision for specialist dermatology training in Townsville.<\/td> Townsville, QLD<\/td> $455,731<\/td><\/tr> Australasian College of Dermatologists<\/strong><\/td> NT Supervisory Rotational System<\/td> Darwin\/Katherine, NT<\/td> $612,128<\/td><\/tr> Australasian College of Emergency Medicine<\/strong><\/td> Blended Remote Trainee Supervision Pilot<\/td> South West Victoria (Warrnambool) and Townsville, QLD<\/td> $324,000<\/td><\/tr> Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians<\/strong><\/td> Remote Supervision Pilot<\/td> Broome, WA<\/td> $205,607<\/td><\/tr> The College of Intensive Care Medicine<\/strong><\/td> WA Training Pathway Project<\/td> Western Australia<\/td> $418,026<\/td><\/tr> Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists<\/strong><\/td> Rural Director of Training Pilot Program<\/td> To be determined<\/td> $830,366<\/td><\/tr> Royal Australasian College of Surgeons<\/strong><\/td> Rural Accreditation – Addressing Barriers to Rural Specialist Training<\/td> National<\/td> $848,196<\/td><\/tr> Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists<\/strong><\/td> Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association Specialist Trainee Support Program (AIDA STSP)<\/td> National<\/td> $501,977<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"