THE full University of NSW (UNSW) medical degree must go ahead in Port Macquarie.
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There is simply too much on the line.
The full medical program and new allied health courses were always at the heart of a $20 million federally funded project.
A state of the art building is complete in Highfields Circuit but we need the UNSW’s high-level decision makers to hold true to the institution’s earlier commitment to run the six-year medical program here.
The UNSW Rural Clinical School, which has had a Port Macquarie presence since 2001, has shown the rural medical education model works.
Its students are achievers and the team is committed to training the next generation of doctors.
The UNSW Port Macquarie team just need the chance to extend their teaching to provide the full medical degree.
Doctors are more likely to build their careers in the country after a taste of the life and opportunities outside the metropolitan areas during their medical training.
Port Macquarie will be all the poorer if the full medical degree does not go ahead. As a community, we simply can’t sit back and let that happen.