universities and hospitals struggling under financial constraints are siphoning off funds allocated for medical student training to cover general administration costs, medical groups claim.The AMA and the Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA) raised the alarm on the issue, claiming some universities were using up to half the total Federal Government funds allocated to support medical students for other purposes. Hospitals might also be diverting training funds to patient care, the groups said, pushing for an investigation into the issue.Medical schools should publicly account for the money they receive for medical students, and the hospitals must be discouraged from shifting specific medical training funding into general funds,” said AMA vice-president Dr Choong-Siew Yong. The universities must stop using medicine as...
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