Barriers to student access  to patients in a group of teaching hospitals

Abrahamson, Sarah J

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00626.x

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To the Editor: I note with interest Australian medical students’ difficulties in gaining access to patients, as documented by several authors in recent months.1-3 There is an alternative explanation for this paucity of access, and that is the culture in Australian teaching hospitals.

Latrobe Regional Hospital, Traralgon, and Queen Elizabeth Centre, Ballarat, VIC.

Correspondence: sjabrahamson@yahoo.com

1. Olson LG, Hill SR, Newby DA. Barriers to student access to patients in a group of teaching hospitals. Med J Aust 2005; 183: 461-463. <MJA full text>
2. Crotty BJ. More students and less patients: the squeeze on medical teaching resources [editorial]. Med J Aust 2005; 183: 444-445. <MJA full text>
3. Thomson A. Medical student access to patients [letter]. Med J Aust 2006; 185: 53. <MJA full text>

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