Training
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P-NG Medical Cadetships: £1,000 a Year While Training
ABOUT 70 students have applied for cadetships under the Papua-New Guinea medical training scheme which win be started in the new year.
Successful applicants, who must be from fourth to final year medical students, will be paid a salary and have all their fees paid as well.
Fourth-year students will receive a salary of £l5 a week and final year students about £l,OOO a year.
After the final year, students will be expected to serve a year’s resi dence at an approved Australian hospital, and then spend from two to five years in the Territory, depending on the length of the cadetship. The scheme will ensure that students with little financial backing will not have to look for jobs to pay for their way through university.
The Territory Director of Health (Dr. John Gunther) visited Aus tralia in October to choose the first students from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide universities.
P-NG is offering cadetships in District Services, Education, Agri culture and Forestry also.