Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Brisbane, QLD (part 2 of 2)

28 August 2026

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Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:15
Speaker 12
And so the individual per person component of each graduate is also smaller.  So it's a very congested system to grow and train those doctors and so therefore we continue to increase our IMG intake. 
00:15 - 00:49
Speaker 11
So there aren't enough training places for the doctors.  Is that is that the issue?  Because I've I've met extraordinarily intelligent say high school students who have done extremely well would have the capacity to study medicine.  I've got absolutely no doubt and have the passion to study medicine but couldn't get in or their options were limited they'd have to travel.  Is is the constraint the number of training places as opposed to if we had more training capacity we'd train more doctors? 
00:49 - 01:14
Speaker 15
That that is correct but it's also then where you train them.  As I was saying the the best determinant of whether somebody works regionally rural or remote is where they train.  And so the we across Queensland have worked with our universities and the Commonwealth to increase the number of rural medical schools and ensuring that those are able to train in place and to grow where those officers are sort of train and practice. 
01:14 - 01:15
Mr. West. 

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