Up and coming medical professionals are helping fill the critical doctor shortage in the Riverina.
The AIM Higher program is a leadership and clinical excellence program for assistants in medicine at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. These roles are filled by the best and brightest final year medical students who undertake an intensive program with leadership skills sessions, career workshops and clinical education sessions.
The program aims to build health capacity in the Murrumbidgee. Last year, twelve young medical graduates worked closely with the most experienced resident doctors to become the future leaders of their generation.
The AIMs also undergo an advanced clinical leadership program to understand how to lead teams, direct clinical research and hopefully develop new innovations to make our healthcare systems more resilient.
The leadership program includes mentoring from local trainees, and internationally recognised specialist healthcare leaders from the Harvard School of Public Health and Oxford University.