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Volume 358:216-219 January 17, 2008 Number 3
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A Bridge to Nowhere — The Troubled Trek of Foreign Medical Graduates
Ranjana Srivastava, F.R.A.C.P.

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It is a typical day in my Melbourne clinic, with missing files, scans gone astray, and patients overwhelmed by their diagnoses. Though a mountain of dictation remains, the day's end appears promisingly close . . . but for a scheduled tutorial. Biting into lukewarm leftovers, I am sorely tempted to cancel it. After all, I reason, it is volunteer work, squeezed in among other pressing commitments. The students will surely understand and perhaps even be grateful for the reprieve on a balmy summer evening.

Maybe the time has come to give up the tutorials, I muse. I have taught since I was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Srivastava is a medical oncologist and internist in Melbourne, Australia.



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