The year 2015 saw the implementation of a unique general medicine advanced trainee position — supported by funding from the Australian Government Specialist Training Program — in Indigenous outreach medicine with the Heart and Lung Institute at the Prince Charles Hospital (PCH) in Brisbane.1
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We thank the Australian Government Department of Health for its support through the Specialist Training Programme.
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