More than 100 junior doctors are joining teams at Canberra Hospital and Calvary Public Hospital Bruce this week after securing spots in Health’s highly-competitive internship program.
Announced by Minister for Health, Rachel Stephen-Smith, the 117 new Junior Medical Officers are starting their first year of practice as interns, involving one year of supervised training before they become eligible to be granted general medical registration.
Ms Stephen-Smith thanked the new Junior Medical Officers for choosing to begin their medical careers in Canberra.
“I know I speak for all Canberrans when I say how very welcome these new doctors are,” she said.
“Given the impact of COVID-19 on the health system in recent months, particularly as rosters have been affected by high numbers of health care workers in quarantine and isolation, our hospital teams will be supporting the new starters to hit the ground running.
“The Junior Medical Officers starting next week will be an integral part of our health service, providing care where and when Canberrans need it.”
Ms Stephen-Smith said 95 Junior Medical Officers joined the team at Canberra Hospital and 22 started at Calvary Public Hospital Bruce.
The Minister said she was especially pleased to see equal numbers of female and male Junior Medical Officers in Calvary Public Hospital Bruce’s program, and almost equal numbers in Canberra Hospital’s 2022 program (46 women and 49 men).
She said there were 335 applicants to the highly-competitive internship program at Canberra Hospital.
