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Farid Farid

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Nsw hires student doctors to ease pressure - Caught on Camera

A program will see student doctors placed in hospitals to ease staff issues, says Dominic Perrottet. (Edwina Pickles/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

More than 1000 NSW final-year medical students will be working in hospitals in paid positions to reduce pressure on hospitals in the state's latest bid to aid the system battered by COVID-19.

Premier Dominic Perrottet said the Assistant in Medicine (AiM) initiative was initially introduced in 2020 as a temporary workforce surge measure during the pandemic but it was so successful, it made sense for it to continue.

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