Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project: Discussion
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The one example I have is of a student from the US who qualified as a doctor here. They worked in a smaller hospital initially and got great opportunities to work in theatre and everywhere else. They went to a bigger hospital for the second six months of their first year and found all they were doing was going for this or that, without getting access to many of the areas they wanted to deal with. When the delegates talked to junior doctors in Australia, did they find there was a difference in approach in their workload, such that they could focus their expertise on their job rather than on many other tasks for which they should not be responsible?
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