Rudd Government Invests $6.5 Million For Clinical Training In Victoria
The Rudd Government today provided a timely boost to the future of health in Victoria.
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon today announced $6.5 million to support additional clinical training places for students at local universities.
The training will encourage more health students to study and work in Victoria.
Institutions to share in the funding for Victoria include Monash University, the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, the Australian College of Optometry and Northern Health.
The funding will support approximately 1200 additional annual clinical training placements for entry-level students currently enrolled in medicine, nursing and midwifery, physiotherapy, optometry and a variety of other allied health disciplines.
The funding for Victoria is part of up to $67.5 million in Increased Clinical Training Capacity grants provided by the Rudd Government for 65 projects across Australia.
The Victorian grants will fund opportunities ranging from mobile eye clinics in a number of areas of Melbourne and regional Victoria to a student-led training ward in Bundoora.
The projects will boost the availability of clinical training places and help ensure that students undertaking health professional studies have access to top-quality facilities and the clinical training necessary to complete their qualification.
Many of the clinical placements to be supported under the funding take advantage of community and private settings not traditionally used for this type of training.
Students will benefit from new supervision and mentoring in team-based, non-traditional settings such as private practices and private hospitals, community health services, small public hospitals, mobile clinics and primary schools.
Future funding for clinical training will be managed by Health Workforce Australia, the organisation established under COAG’s National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform as the national health workforce planning agency.
The Increased Clinical Training Capacity grants underline the Rudd Government’s commitment to provide the resources necessary to build a health workforce that meets the current and future needs of the Australian community.
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