This week, The Australian again reported on the lack of intern places for medical graduates. It is encouraging to see that the various interested parties (students, deans of medical schools, professional organisations) are starting to reach some level of agreement about what needs to happen. Now if only the people who make the decisions will listen...
Creating intern positions involves more than just putting aside money to pay their salaries. Medical interns are just out of university - they have a fair amount of book learning but don't actually have the context with which to use this knowledge safely. They need a hell of a lot of supervision. In order to have interns working safely, there needs to be training and infrastructure to support the senior doctors providing supervision, money to pay for supervisors' time, and adequate senior staffing levels so that supervisors can provide adequate oversight. I haven't heard any murmurings of this happening any time soon.
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