Rural university medical program slammed

By Stephanie Gardiner
Updated May 17 2022 - 1:31pm, first published 1:26pm
A rural health inquiry's been told that few who take a bonded medical scholarship work in the bush.
A rural health inquiry's been told that few who take a bonded medical scholarship work in the bush.

Asking teenage school leavers to commit to a career as a bush doctor is ridiculous, as rural medicine becomes more risky and complicated, a Tasmanian health inquiry has been told.

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