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A record intake of intern doctors will rotate through the Mackay Hospital and Health Service as they set out on their respective careers and medical fields.
The 46 new interns will be hosted at Mackay Base Hospital with rotations through Proserpine, Bowen and Mater hospitals over the next 12 months.
It is an exciting time for Dr Clarise Sornachalam who is following in her father and brotherâs footsteps in medicine.
âMy dad is a doctor â an occupation physician â and we moved to Mackay when I was five because of his work,â Dr Sornachalam said.
âMy brother decided to go into medicine and studied through JCU and worked at the Base.