News
19 Aug 2008
Media Release: AMSA: Physician Assistants Not the Answer for Rural Health
The introduction of Physician Assistants (PAs) into Queensland hospitals will compromise the quality of medical student training for very little gain, the Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) said today.
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19 Aug 2008
Rural Electives Database - We Need You!
RED Centre is the Rural Electives Database Centre of the Australian Medical Students' Association. We invite any student who has completed a rural placement to contribute to RED Centre, adding to the experience of other students interested in rural practice!
Read on for more information and when you're ready,
complete this form to contribute your rural experience to the database.
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19 Aug 2008
AMSA Blood Drive - Only Two Weeks To Go!
Just a friendly reminder that you all need to get along to your local blood collection centre, bare your cubital fossa and donate! Following this, it is very, VERY important that you go
here to register your donation. If you don't do this, your donation will save lives, but it won't help your university's chances of winning the coveted Vampire Cup.
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17 Aug 2008
Rural and Indigenous Health Bursaries - Closing August 31
This year AMSA in conjunction with the National Rural Health Network (NRHN) will be providing four $1000 bursaries for medical, nursing and allied health students to undertake electives in rural areas. In addition AMSA and NRHN are running an Indigenous health essay competition with two prizes to be awarded to medical and allied health students worth $1000 each. For more information or to apply for the bursaries click
here.
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05 Aug 2008
Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Applications Extended
The Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship (open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students of allied health and medicine) application due date has been EXTENDED to 22nd August 2008. This scholarship is available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are studying or wish to study medicine or other health-related courses. Students receive $15,000 per year for the duration of their course. Applications are due around the end of August each year. For more information click
here or call 1800 688 628.
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04 Aug 2008
Applications for NLDS Now Closed
Applications for the 2008 AMSA RACGP National Leadership Development Seminar are now closed. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application on 11 August. Good luck!
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30 Jul 2008
Embolus July '08 - The Blood Drive Edition
The July Edition of Embolus is now ready for your consumption. It's jam-packed with delicious news, opportunities, sponsor updates and fun-times. Please enter the competitions - we have an office full of textbooks that we MUST give away so there's somewhere for us to sit and have meetings. You'll also find that this month's edition is a different colour.
Have a look. I think you'll like it.
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29 Jul 2008
MSOD Project: A National Database for Medical Education Research and Workforce Planning
The Medical Schools Outcomes Database (MSOD) Project, along with AMSA & Medical Deans ANZ will this year administrate the Pilot Exit Questionnaire (EQ) to final year medical students at Flinders, Griffith and Sydney universities. The EQ is vital for determining changes in student career intention and forms an essential component of the project. For more information on MSOD, click
here.
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29 Jul 2008
Applications for East Asian Medical Students' Conference Now Open
The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) and the Asian Medical Students’ Association (AsMSA) invites all Australian medical students to apply to attend the 22nd East Asian Medical Students’ Conference (EAMSC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Conference will be held from January 7-11, 2009. The theme for the conference is “AIDS in the Asia-Pacific”. For more information click
here or read more.
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