MEDICAL students say the lure back home may be the main reason for the regional GP shortage.

Third-year Monash Rural Health students Kumail Jaffry and Michael Bongiorno will spend their year studying in Mildura, but while one has plans to settle here the other is unsure.

Mr Jaffry, who has lived in Mildura since high school, said his family was the main reason he would be coming back to the regi...