Carol Atmore aims to make rural practice and GP work more attractive to students. "There's a whole range of skills that GPs have, and you have to use that whole broad range of skills," she said. "We need half of them to become GPs and rural medical doctors to have a workforce that will be able to manage our ageing population," she said. The Rural Medical Immersion Programme run by the Otago Medical School had increased in size from 20 to 25 students. Students could apply from across the university's campuses, and all students enrolled at the Dunedin School of Medicine came through the department of general practice and rural health on rotation.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 01, 2019 15:34 UTC