A city far from the Australian outback is looking for a doctor. To soften the agreement, the city offers generous salary, accommodation without rent and car allocation.
The capture? You would be the only doctor in an isolated city at 7 p.m. by car from the nearest big city – Brisbane.
The North West Hospital and Health Service advertising for a principal doctor in Julia Creek, Queensland, a city of Outback of around 550 people.
The job list shows that the role would offer an annual salary of up to 680,277 Australian dollars, or about $ 428,000. It is almost seven times the average Australian salary.
The position also includes accommodation without rent, an engineer vehicle allocation and more than three weeks of annual professional development leave.
“Your main role will be as the only doctor offering clinical care to the community,” said the list. This would include seeing patients in primary care clinics, in the neighborhood and in retirement homes.
He listed one of the advantages such as “no traffic jams or long journeys here”.
Although there may be long journeys, the city is far from urban life and its amenities. It is so isolated that most school students must go to boarding schools.
The nearest small towns are Mont Isa, about three hours away, and Townsville City, more than eight hours on the road.
Brisbane, the third most breathtaking city in Australia, is more than 1,000 miles, or at 7 p.m. drive.
In 2022 Julia Creek launched a hiring call to fulfill the role. The list has become viral and attracted candidates from around the world, a Brisbane doctor finally chose to fulfill the role.
He leaves now.
Australia is faced with an increasing shortage of general practitioners, the government considering a deficit of thousands by 2048.
The situation is particularly bad in rural and distant regions, the country’s Ministry of Health and Care for the elderly in a August report said.
Consequently, some isolated cities offer very competitive packages to encourage doctors to leave big cities.
In 2023, the county of Quairading, about two hours east of Perth, which is considered one of the most isolated large cities in the world, offered a salary equivalent to $ 189,000 with a four -bedroom house.
The general registrations of Australia practice have declared that rural areas generally offer much higher wages, as well as incentives such as housing and relocation payments, to resolve difficulties in attracting health professionals.
