Medical school students brought in to ease hospital staffing crisis
Final year med students are being paid to complete discharge summaries, cannulation, venepuncture as well as scribing on ward rounds
More than 1000 paid positions for final year medical students have been created in a bid to ease staff shortages in NSW hospitals.
They will be called Assistants in Medicine, with their work including completing discharge summaries, cannulation and venepuncture as well as scribing on ward rounds and organising consults.
