For months now, the saga over Australia's failure to complete the training of international medical students has been in the headlines.
 
The problem is on the rise with up to 500 of the medical students facing the prospect of missing out on the vital internship year.
 
The latest slap in the face for these students came last week with the Victorian Health Department's decision to suddenly change the criteria for allocating their internships, effectively locking out international students from their merit-based system.