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AMA Queensland is urging the Queensland Government to follow the lead of Tasmania and Victoria and offer financial incentives for doctors to train as GPs to head off a looming workforce crisis.
The call is made in the AMA Queensland Pre-Budget Submission 2024-25.
“We are heading towards a cliff in our general practice workforce,” AMA Queensland President Dr Maria Boulton said.
“Forty years ago, about 50 per cent of medical school graduates chose general practice as their specialty. Today it is less than 15 per cent.
“Those GPs who trained in the 1980s are now planning to move to part-time work or retire, and we do not have the new workforce to replace them.
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