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25 medical students not matched with jobs first year out
More than two dozen of our future doctors may have to head to overseas after Te Whatu Ora didn't match them with jobs for their first year out of medical school. Te Whatu Ora has offered 538 students post-graduate jobs, with 25 - mostly international students missing out, despite having studied and completed all their qualifications here. It comes as some GP practices have weeks-long waiting lists while hospitals and emergency departments around the country struggle with understaffing, and ballooning wait times, Luka Forman has more.