The Australian Medical Association wants to scrap the policy which puts overseas trained doctors in rural communities.

The current rule for overseas trained doctors requires them to work at a small scale for a minimum of ten years before their degree is recognized completely.

AMA president, Andrew Pesce says that the policy which aims at improving the remote health services is not really working.

He says, “What the AMA has identified and what our doctors are telling us is that the Government has it too easy, it plugs holes by basically conscripting doctors to work in these areas for ten years.”

A contradictory view has come from Professor of Health Economics at the University of Queensland Luke Connelly, who warns against any such change.

Luke says that the system cannot be replaced so easily. He thinks that it has been very successful and that there are doctors who are working in rural and remote parts of Australia where there would be no doctor at all if this scheme was not implemented.

As per the figures given by the Australian Medical Association, more than 40 percent off.