GPs drafted to supervise foreign hospital doctors.

Australian Doctor,  March, 2006  

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By Eleanor Limprecht

A PUBLIC hospital in SA has taken the unprecedented step of drafting in a team of GPs to supervise its international medicine graduates, currently working as interns.

Modbury Hospital in Adelaide's north-east has entered into a contract with locum company gpSolutions to provide the GPs because of a shortage of senior hospital doctors. According to an Adelaide newspaper, each GP is being paid $1400 per shift.

Mr Trevor Jew, chief operating officer of gpSolutions, refused to confirm the pay rates, but said the doctors working at Modbury were a small pool ...

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