FOR the sixth year in a row it has been my great pleasure to welcome medical students from Western Sydney University to their residency at the Bathurst Rural Medical School.
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These 16 students, the largest group yet, will live, work and study in and around Bathurst for the next 12 months, rotating through areas including mental health, critical care, paediatrics, medicine, oncology, surgery, general practice and indigenous health.
You may come in contact with the students as they will be working alongside many of our local general practitioners and medical professionals.
Be sure to make them feel welcome and let them know what a great place this is to live.
Hopefully we’ll see a few of their faces back here when they graduate in a couple of years.
SUBSIDIES GO UP
There’s some great news for apprentices and trainees required to travel as part of their studies.
The overnight accommodation subsidy has doubled from $28 per night to $56 per night and the fuel subsidy has increased from 12 cents to 33 cents per kilometre.
These substantial increases in travel subsidies are long overdue, and will be a big help for trainees and apprentices in regional areas.
We hope these changes to travel subsidies assist the state priority of increasing the proportion of people completing apprenticeships and traineeships to 65 per cent by 2019.
