Doctor shortage - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 03 May 2023 22:15:31 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Doctor shortage - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Iranian-born doctor endures 17-month wait for security checks in visa process https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/05/04/iranian-born-doctor-endures-17-month-wait-for-security-checks-in-visa-process/ Thu, 04 May 2023 05:52:13 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=158441 Two doctors expecting a baby in August have been caught up in national security checks and face having to decide whether to emigrate. The orthopaedic house officer, who did not want his name used, was born in Iran and has dual Canadian citizenship as he moved there when he was 14. He and his New Read more

Iranian-born doctor endures 17-month wait for security checks in visa process... Read more]]> Two doctors expecting a baby in August have been caught up in national security checks and face having to decide whether to emigrate.

The orthopaedic house officer, who did not want his name used, was born in Iran and has dual Canadian citizenship as he moved there when he was 14.

He and his New Zealand fiancee are junior doctors in a North Island hospital.

The 17-month wait for a partnership visa is almost double the time other couples they know experienced, he said.

"I have never had any criminal records, never joined any armies, have been in school all my life until a few months ago when I graduated. I was still singled out for this process. Read more

Iranian-born doctor endures 17-month wait for security checks in visa process]]> 158441 Junior doctors increasingly leaving before training as specialists, new estimate suggests https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/04/27/junior-doctors-increasingly-leaving-before-training-as-specialists-new-estimate-suggests/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 05:52:19 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=158141 More and more junior doctors are being lost in the training pipeline before they emerge to bolster the stressed ranks of specialists, data suggests. A new estimate from the senior doctors' union puts the loss rate at about 40 per cent compared to just 16 per cent a few years ago. The analysis, passed by Read more

Junior doctors increasingly leaving before training as specialists, new estimate suggests... Read more]]> More and more junior doctors are being lost in the training pipeline before they emerge to bolster the stressed ranks of specialists, data suggests.

A new estimate from the senior doctors' union puts the loss rate at about 40 per cent compared to just 16 per cent a few years ago.

The analysis, passed by the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists to the Productivity Commission, was more bad news for the stressed health workforce.

"Many junior doctors are not entering specialist training," its submission said.

In part, it blamed a rise in overseas junior doctors doing a short stint here, like a medical OE, and the junior doctors' union said it was seeing this, too. Read more

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