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Sarah Dalton: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Executive Director on Waikato medical school given the greenlight · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The government's given the green light a new medical school
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  Speaker 1: at the University of Waikato. Doors will open twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight a starting role of one hundred and twenty students
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  Speaker 1: a year. Eighty two million bucks. That's how much we
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  Speaker 1: pay down from two hundred and eighty million dollars which
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  Speaker 1: was previously promised at the election from National Sarah Dalton's
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  Speaker 1: the executive director of the Association of Salary Medical Specialist
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan, How are you doing very well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. The government says we will get more rural
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  Speaker 1: doctors and gps out of doing this at Wyicuta university.
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  Speaker 1: What stops you from you know, once you do your studies,
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  Speaker 1: how do you decide or are there rules about where
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  Speaker 1: you must go next.
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  Speaker 2: It's just every new graduate doctor has to do two
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  Speaker 2: years practical work. Generally in hospitals. They're the ones known
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  Speaker 2: as house officers before they get their general registration with
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  Speaker 2: the Medical Council. So no doctor emerging from university has
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  Speaker 2: any specialty. They might think they know that they want
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  Speaker 2: to be a rural doctor or a surgeon, or an
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  Speaker 2: anethetist or a psychiatrist or a GP that they have
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  Speaker 2: to do this two years and then they will continue
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  Speaker 2: on as a registrar, choose a training program with one
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  Speaker 2: of the colleges, and once they emerge from that training
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  Speaker 2: program five to ten years later, they will be a specialist. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everyone might hope that more people who go
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  Speaker 2: to this new medical school will be GPS or rural
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  Speaker 2: hospital medicine specialists, but we can't guarantee that. The bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: and this is the good news, is that the more
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  Speaker 2: doctors we train, the more doctors will have And actually
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  Speaker 2: the highest proportions of any single specialist group registered with
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  Speaker 2: the Medical Council now are GPS. So it stands the
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  Speaker 2: reason that the more we train, the more GPS will get.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know, of the doctors that we currently train,
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  Speaker 1: how many of them end up overseas?
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  Speaker 2: I don't personally know that statistic, But.
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  Speaker 1: Because is there a risk that we train these people
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  Speaker 1: and then they bugger off?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there is absolutely that risk. But there is a
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  Speaker 2: side of the coin, which is make the terms and
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  Speaker 2: conditions to stay here, make it make it easier to
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  Speaker 2: stay here, make it better to stay here, Guarantee them jobs,
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  Speaker 2: make sure they're earning good money. We've got a real
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  Speaker 2: problem with Australian doctors earning so much more than they
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  Speaker 2: can possibly earn a new helmand.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you mean, because I mean I've seen
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  Speaker 1: some of those specialist rates and I've had friends have
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  Speaker 1: moved for these rates and they're double. What you know,
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  Speaker 1: do we need to double? What are you realistically?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're talking senior doctors, obviously we because we
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  Speaker 2: deal with salary doctors. So if we just make that comparison.
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  Speaker 2: In Australian they have a state system. So the state
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  Speaker 2: we are doctors earn the least currently is New South Wales.
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  Speaker 2: Our specialist scale starts at step one, goes all the
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  Speaker 2: way to step fifteen, So after fifteen years a doctor
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  Speaker 2: here will be top of our specialist scale. And in
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  Speaker 2: Australia in their first year they can earn more than
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  Speaker 2: our step fifteen, which so you can go to Australia
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  Speaker 2: and earn more in your first year then you can
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  Speaker 2: earn yeah, in.
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  Speaker 1: Your first day experience, Sarah, that is that is quite
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  Speaker 1: a number. Sarah Doll's and an executive director of the
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  Speaker 1: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. For more from early edition
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