‘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The view that medical students come from money is 'outdated', says student Lisa Ross.
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.
But she has delayed her studies because she will not have time to work while on placement, and she and her husband need the joint income to cover mortgage repayments and support their three children.
“I am taking a year out to earn a wage to pay for my two years of full-time studying; we can’t afford for me to not work,” she told AusDoc.
