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Medical students asked to explain overseas work placements
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More than 60 Otago University medical students are now caught up in an investigation into using overseas work placements to go on holiday.
The university has already found that 15 final year students rorted the taxpayer-funded system and lied about it.
Now all trainee interns have been asked to speak up if they think they may have done something wrong on their placement.
Deborah Powell from the junior doctors' union told our reporter Tess Brunton that means dozens of worried students are now waiting to hear if they will be allowed to graduate and start work in hospitals in less than two weeks.