‘We are not all rich kids’: Medical students struggling to make ends meet
The view that medical students come from money is 'outdated', says student Lisa Ross.
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After working as a physiotherapist for over a decade, Lisa Ross went back to university to study medicine, wanting to do her bit to address the lack of GPs in regional Victoria.
As a second-year medical student at Melbourne’s Deakin University, she would have been starting the first of two 40-week placements next year.