A former Dunedin medical student, Dr Xaviour Walker, is
driving an international effort to set up a global network
for junior doctors.
Dr Walker, now an internal medicine resident in Boston, has
been helping in the three year project to set up a junior
doctors committee of the associates members of the World
Medical Association (WMA).
The committee would provide a forum for junior doctors
worldwide to meet and to discuss issues facing their level of
the health sector, he said today.
There was a gap in international representation of junior
doctors, with no world body of junior doctors as well as the
majority of countries without any junior doctor committees.
The new organisation would be for registered doctors in their
early postgraduate years who were yet to complete their
specialist training.
It would enable junior doctors to discuss issues facing them
and would provide a junior doctors' perspective on health and
healthcare, said Dr Walker.
"We want the network to be as inclusive as possible."
These junior doctors could help policy development on issues
such as medical education, well-being and social media.
The World Medical Association is an independent confederation
of national medical associations from 97 countries and
represents more than nine million doctor in seeking the
highest possible standards of medical care, ethics, and
education.
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