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Kat Wong

Record number of GPs in training but 'job not done'

There's been a welcome increase in the number of junior doctors choosing to become GPs. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Australians could have improved access to local doctors as a record number of medical students train to become GPs.

More than 1500 junior doctors will undergo specialist GP training in 2025, an almost 20 per cent increase - or 249 future GPs - on 2024.

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