Fraser Coast's 3 L's: location, lifestyle and liveability - Aspiring Doctors and Nurses to meet
ASPIRING DOCTORS AND NURSES TO SEE FRASER COAST’S THREE Ls
Media Release - AMA QUEENSLAND
24 February 2023
More than 150 doctors, nurses and students will meet in Hervey Bay this weekend to see the career and lifestyle opportunities the beautiful Fraser Coast can offer.
Designed to highlight the advantages of regional health careers and address regional workforce shortages, the sold-out Fraser Coast Health Conference is a collaboration between the Fraser Coast Regional Council and The University of Queensland Regional Training Hubs, supported by AMA Queensland.
AMA Queensland Vice President Dr Nick Yim, a Brisbane-born and Gold Coast-trained GP who moved to Hervey Bay 10 years ago, says the Fraser Coast is a great place to live and practise.
“Rural and regional Queensland has so much to offer in terms of work and lifestyle. The Fraser Coast really demonstrates this as there’s no peak hour traffic, there’s beautiful water, easy access to K’Gari, and it’s just a couple of flights away from international cities,” Dr Yim says.
“There’s the collaboration and the collegiate network among doctors, who are so close in regional and rural areas, which I find really helpful to improve the care for patients and the communities.
“We really have the three L’s – location, lifestyle and liveability.”
The conference is aimed at medical and nursing students, junior doctors, overseas-trained doctors and medical practitioners in the early stages of their careers.
The University of Queensland Rural Clinical School Director Associate Professor Riitta Partanen said the UQ Regional Training Hubs complement the existing investment in rural education for medical students and seek to improve the retention of medical graduates by providing support during their medical education and training as well as career guidance and mentorship.
“We help to improve the coordination of medical training across regional Queensland, so that medical students and medical trainees who want to practise rurally or regionally can complete as much of their medical training as possible in rural and regional Australia,” Associate Professor Partanen said.
“We know that positive living and work experiences make it more likely for these doctors to remain with us for longer or return to regional and rural communities in the future.”
The Fraser Coast welcomes the opportunity to showcase the region, Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour said.
“The Fraser Coast is growing rapidly and while the region has access to first-class medical facilities, we need medical practitioners to ensure those facilities operate at their optimum,” Cr Seymour said.
“The conference will allow visitors to see those facilities as well as the region and hopefully meet some of the friendly residents.”
The Fraser Coast Health Conference will be held on 25-26 February at the University of the Sunshine Coast – Fraser Coast campus.
MEDIA INQUIRIES:
AMA Queensland – 0419 735 641 media@amaq.com.au
Fraser Coast Regional Council
The University of Queensland