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Australian GP Training
The Australian General Practice Training program (AGPT) is managed by General Practice Education and Training Limited (GPET) and funded by the Australian Government. GPET contracts with 21 regional training providers to deliver vocational training via the AGPT program to about 2,600 GP registrars. Selection for the AGPT program opens in May of each year and postgraduate doctors can apply in their intern year.
AMSA American
Express Gold Card
Great Value, Great benefits, Apply here! American Express will advise AMSA of the names of AMSA members who take up this offer. The AMSA privacy policy can be accessed at www.amsa.org.au or by contacting AMSA at 02 6270 5435.
Avant
Avant is proud to be a major partner of AMSA. Student membership of Australia's largest MDO is free and designed to meet your needs as
you study. Insurance features include: $20 million professional indemnity cover for electives and scholarship placements; driving licence defence; and cover for Good Samaritan acts worldwide.
Elsevier
WinkingSkull.com is a free, interactive and enormously successful resource for medical students which was recently launched. This exciting new study-aid contains all the must-know anatomy concepts encountered during first year medical school. In addition, Thieme has announced the release of their Atlas of Anatomy, authored by renowned anatomists. Click here to view the stunning illustrations, sample chapters and author interviews.
Health Super
Health Super can help you take superannuation from 'care factor zero' to give it a little
more lovin'! After all, you have an asset money can't buy...Time! So what are you waiting for? Visit
www.healthsuper.com.au or contact our
Superline Freecall on 1800 331 719 for all the details.
MDA National
Whether you're in 1st year or 4th year, it's important that you have adequate medical
indemnity cover for clinical placements, electives and private clinical work. MDA National Insurance's Student
Indemnity Policy provides medical indemnity cover worldwide (excluding USA) and insures you for $1,000,000
policy limit including $500,000 towards defence costs.
RACGP
Your free online RACGP student membership includes access to gplearning interactive online education service, RACGP John Murtagh Library online and AFP clinical journal online. New upgrade package: for only $49 receive Australian Medicines Handbook CD-ROM 2008 (valued at $115), check on CD 2007 self education program (valued at $68.20) and AFP in hard copy (valued at $55).
Visit www.racgp.org.au/membership/students.
South Australian
Department of Health
Ever wondered what it would be like to work interstate - where you can have it all? Festivals, Lifestyle, Career and a Family. Consider South Australia in your future plans. Join us for our Big career in medicine Expo 25 May 2008.
Competitions
Captions... Ahoy!
"And in PNG this is the position we had to make the splint to ensure his gonado-wucheria didn't chafe".
Free Stuff for Free In light of it being exam time for some, we've decided to treat you all. Provide a token answer to this topical and relevant question and you could win yourself a brilliant textbook to aid you in your quest for brilliance, or passing, or whatever it is you aim to do in an exam. Q. How many new John Flynn scholarships did the government commit to in the Federal Budget? Hint: AMSA Budget media release. Send your answer to embolus@amsa.org.au and we'll send you a book, if you win.
Guitar Hero Ahoy!
I was at a friend's house the other day when, apparently inevitably, it became Guitar Hero time. Now, despite having a healthy number of male friends, I had never actually witnessed the majesty of this game before.
For those unfamiliar with the premise of Guitar Hero, it involves smushing buttons on a plastic, ukelele-sized "guitar" to simulate the experience of, you know, playing a real guitar.
Of course, I've been thoroughly castigated for passing judgement without actually playing the game myself. But, to be fair, I've played a real guitar with the kind of varied success and mild embarrassment I assume I could expect from an attempt at playing a video game.
Despite the above, I actually have no problem with this game. I understand the childhood desire for rock stardom and how Guitar Hero might deliver some semblance of this dream. But surely this premise could be used in much more exciting ways?
Picture this: TROMBONE HERO.
What better way to get your recalcitrant child involved in classical music? Or imagine how enchanting you will be to your new lady friend when you bust out Hadyn's Concerto in D Major on a black plastic trombone to the quiet applause of a simulated TV audience.
I truly think this is an untapped resource. And I think you will too. To prove it, the person who submits a proposal for the best new incarnation of a Guitar Hero-like game will win an excellent textbook-shaped prize. (I'm going to hazard a guess and suggest it's going to be a textbook). Think broadly. It doesn't have to be musically-related. In fact it shouldn't be, because what's funnier than Trombone Hero? (Nothing). Make it a game about anything you want, so long as it is an action you can simulate and isn't sexually offensive. For example, Beard-Shaving Hero. Simulate shaving a beard to score points! (This is why I'm not entering the competition. Because my ideas are rubbish). Submit to embolus@amsa.org.au
In conclusion, Guitar Hero is fun. But Trombone Hero is funner.
- Gemmington Steele
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AMSA Concerned By National Accreditation
AMSA has raised concerns with the Federal Government's National Registration and Accreditation agenda, and the impact that it may have upon the future of medical education and training. We wholeheartedly support the concept of a national database of registered medical practitioners, and even medical students, with the express aim of increasing work flexibility and improving patient safety; however we have significant concerns about the Government's move to impose bureaucratic oversight on bodies such as the Australian Medical Council. Read more about AMSA's stand on this issue in the Big Issues section of our website.
Federal Budget: Wins and Losses for Future Doctors
AMSA watched with interest as the Labor government delivered its first Federal Budget on May 13. $275 billion for GP Superclinics, the establishment of a $10 billion Health and Hospitals Fund, more John Flynn Scholarships and changes to the Medicare Levy were among the announcements that will affect Australian medical students. Read the full media release for more details.
AMSA Launches National Mentoring Scheme
This May marks the launch of the 2008 AMSA National Mentoring Scheme. This year the scheme has been updated to create small mentoring groups with members from multiple year levels and from multiple schools. Currently there is a shortage of mentors across all year levels so anybody that is interested in making a difference in a fellow medical student's life should e-mail community@amsa.org.au and express their interest. This is a chance to make some friends, have some fun and procrastinate all at once. How can any medical student say no? Go to website for more information.
AMSA National Charity Drive - Race for the Cup
The AMSA National Charity Drive runs from July to July each year. We would like to invite medical societies to submit details of charity events they have undertaken in the past year, as part of AMSA's National Charity Drive. AMSA Council will vote on the most innovative and successful initiative for '07-'08 in July and the winning Med Soc is awarded the coveted AMSA Charity Cup at AMSA Convention. Email details of your charity event to nc@amsa.org.au. For more information on how to submit details of your event, go here.
Melbourne08 - Conviki & Beyond
And you thought you were just going to Melbourne for a week. Turns out you were really, really wrong. In the last four weeks the melbourne08 team have announced the themes for the nighttime events at Convention and if the website is to be believed, we're going global! With themes such as AMSAdam, Victoria's Secret, Tokyo Drift and Thai Bucket Party, you'll feel like you're on a holiday for 18-35s... And you'll also have more fun than Romans in a vomitorium. The Melbourne08 website depicts these themes graphically (all graphics by Stew Morrison, he's talented, no?) AND you can also pick up your limited edition, exclusive, and finely tailored Convention t-shirt.
AMSA Life in the Real World Seminar
We are pleased to announce the second Annual National Life in the Real World Seminar (LRW), to be held in Melbourne on Saturday June 12. LRW teaches you the things that you don't learn while confined to libraries and laboratories - how to manage finances, friendships, fidelity and fun-times when you leave the safety of university to embark on a career as a real-life doctor. Details on how to register will be coming soon to the AMSA website.
GHC08 Goes Genuinely Global
AMSA is proud to announce that a delegation of 34 Asia-Pacific students will be attending the 2008 Global Health Conference made possible with the generous financial support from the Australian Government's Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) and the Myer Foundation. AMSA Global aims to equip these students with essential skills required to further health promotion in their respective nations and to advance extensive collaborative networks within our region.
AMSA GHN Millennium Development Goals Survey
Shortened to AMSAGHNMDGS, this 2-minute survey is easier than its name suggests. The AMSA Global Health Network (GHN) is assessing the awareness and attitudes of medical students towards the UN Millennium Development Goals. Want to find out more? You should go here. It's easier than saying AMSAGHNMDGS fast three times.
Informing Prospective Medical Students
Prospective medical students can now have some of their burning questions answered by visiting the newly created Prospective Medical Students section of the AMSA website. The site includes access to AMSA's highly acclaimed Medical Schools Guide, which this year will be put into print production, as well as information about AMSA, our events, initiatives and thoughts about some medical school entry procedures, such as the UMAT exam. If you have friends or family trying to get into medicine make sure you steer them in the direction of the AMSA website. Better yet, if you have any advice for prospective students why not send it to us at embolus@amsa.org.au and we'll add it to the site.
Perks 'R Us
Being subscribed to AMSA brings many benefits, the most valuable of which is (arguably) this e-newsletter arriving in your inbox each month. There are myriad other benefits available to you, neatly summarised in the new-look Member Benefits section of our website. We are constantly updating this section, so keep checking back regularly.
Panacea 1: Wait by Your Mailbox
By the time you read this, I will be dead.
Dead-certain you're going to love the latest edition of AMSA's flagship publication, Panacea, that is!
Awful, awful, public-stoning-deserving puns aside, the rumours are true: Panacea 1 is ready to have your greedy mitts all over it, pawing and tearing at the proverbial nutritious goo within. In this edition you'll not only find out just what it is all those other medsocs get up to during the year, you'll also get to know your AMSA a little better, feel a little better about yourself by reading informative global health articles and better your knowledge of everything from Surgical Student Societies to tapirs. By that I mean there is a drawing of a tapir inside.
So go on. Do your body a favour and get your recommended daily allowance of Panacea* this May.
*Dietitians maintain there is no recommended daily allowance for a medical student magazine.
IRG08 Debuts
The 2008 Intern and Resident Guide (IRG) is now available to download from the AMSA website. The IRG, one of AMSA's mostly eagerly anticipated publications, details the salary, employment and lifestyle conditions at every Australian hospital which accepts interns. The IRG is also being produced in hard copy and will be distributed via AMSA Representatives shortly.
417x572 Pixels of Webspace Dedicated to the Real Rahil Nagpal (USyd AMSA Rep)
Summarise yourself in 14 words or less: Business + Pleasure = Watch.this.space
Name: Rahil Nagpal, aliases Dr Moses, Ho-cho, Choc Thunder, Rah-Rah, Sammy L, USyd AMSA Rep
Describe AMSA using the literary technique of "metaphor": AMSA is growing on your medical experience like E. coli on the room temperature Cornerstore beef that is a medical student's mind.
The Australian flag... has been in a position to benefit from revision for several years now.
Children are just small... enough to be sold in six-packs, but not small enough to be referred to as snack size just yet. Soon enough they'll be available in "just add water" sachets (which would take a lot of pleasure out of the process)... we need bigger kids! Ladies, consider spending the rest of your life with a big man.
The best thing about being a medical student is... A mentor, Dr Stewart Dunn taught me about the four superpowers possessed by medical students:
- Ignorance (we're allowed to use the phrase "I don't know")
- Time (to spend with patients/learning)
- Lack of accountability/responsibility (in regard to patient care, patients share more readily)
- Anonymity (+getting away with things at Convention)
The second best thing about AMSA is... That it exists as a medium for the ordinary medical student to meet their counterparts. In regards to the foundations of a medical experience, you can think of "meeting of medical students" to being comparable to "water"; and the actions of "informing, connecting, and representation" are more like a wine - everyone drinks water.
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