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Speaker 1: We did report that the Prime Minister stopped in Darwin,

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Speaker 1: of course earlier in the week and Mady's media event

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Speaker 1: at Charles Daowen University, and that was to welcome the

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Speaker 1: university's first cohort of medical students. So from the ninth

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Speaker 1: of February forty two students, including two first Nation students,

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Speaker 1: are going to begin their studies through CDU the Menzies

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Speaker 1: Medical Program. Now, I'm pleased to say we've had a

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Speaker 1: bit of a swap around and joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line is Charles Dawen Universities. Well, the pro Vice Chancellor

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Speaker 1: for the Faculty of Health, Professor Dominic Upton.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, professor.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you. Good to speak to you again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely to have you on the show. Now tell

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Speaker 1: me how well this program. It's received a huge number

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Speaker 1: of applications, haven't it hasna that's right.

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Speaker 3: So we had a approximately two thousand applications to enter

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Speaker 3: into the medical program from which we were you know,

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Speaker 3: I was able to select the best and the brightest

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Speaker 3: and the major already coming from the NT So we

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Speaker 3: went to a formal interview round, did all the objective testing,

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Speaker 3: looked at the h R schools, and on that basis,

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Speaker 3: we've selected forty two students that are going to join

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Speaker 3: us on Monday for their orientation week and then really

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Speaker 3: get to grips with the program the week after.

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Speaker 2: On the ninth that you said, that's awesome. How many

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Speaker 2: of them are home grown?

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Speaker 3: What from the territory? Yep, so I think there were

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Speaker 3: just two who were from interstate, although we're still working

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Speaker 3: through that process. Because the last round of offers went

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Speaker 3: out this morning yep, yes, this morning, so that it

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Speaker 3: will be above thirty will be from the territory.

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Speaker 2: That's wonderful to hear.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I guess we all hope that they'll

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Speaker 1: end up staying here in the Northern Territory and working

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Speaker 3: That's right, I mean, that's exactly exactly our aim. So

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Speaker 3: you know the reason behind setting up the program was

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Speaker 3: to try and grow our locally grown give an opportunity

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Speaker 3: for our students, for our school leavers and for our

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Speaker 3: with us and just remain Because the more likely you

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Speaker 3: are to be trained in an area, the more likely

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Speaker 3: you are to stay in an area. So that's what

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Speaker 3: we've been doing. And we've had success with nursing with

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Speaker 3: physia without seeing the rest of the profession, so we thought,

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Speaker 3: well we better do medicine as well. So that's the aim.

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Speaker 1: And I know there was a few issues or a

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Speaker 3: That's right. We've got all the accreditation, we've got the

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Speaker 3: new building, we've got all the facilities. We're all good

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Speaker 3: to go. You know. We set up the curriculum so

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Speaker 3: it's specific for the NT, so they'll be good doctors

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Speaker 3: across the whole of Australia and beyond, but they'd also

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Speaker 3: So we're training our local students to work locally as well,

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Speaker 2: Professor, how long does the course go for?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: How many years?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a five year course, so it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's a good, good waited time and the first two

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Speaker 1: And does this now mean that's Charlestown University's offering training

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Speaker 1: for all the health professions that the Northern Territory needs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the majority, for certain. I mean there are a

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Speaker 3: couple like optometry, for example, that we don't offer, which

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Speaker 3: health professions, we are for all of those. So we've

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Speaker 1: And as the university year gets underway, I mean, are

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. So you know, we've got opportunities

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Speaker 3: that again you know, we're actually what I like to

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Speaker 3: think of it is at reversing that brain drain. So

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Speaker 3: So we are dragging. We are bringing people here and

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Speaker 3: health service has got a bright future with both local

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Speaker 1: It's been a long time since I was at university,

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Speaker 1: but I know that you know that first week at UNI,

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Speaker 1: it's so exciting. It is one of the best times

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Speaker 1: is everybody buzzing.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's buzzing. I mean it will be. The excitement will

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Speaker 3: grow even further on Monday when all the students come.

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Speaker 3: We're having a special celebration of them arriving. They'll obviously

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Speaker 3: be a bit nervous and anxious as well as excited,

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Speaker 3: but you know, we'll hopefully set their minds at rest

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Speaker 2: How good that is wonderful to hear well.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to speak to you this morning, Charles Sewn,

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Speaker 1: University's pro vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Health, Professor

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Speaker 1: Dominic Upton, really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you.

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