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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.
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. The vocational endpoints of training are Fellowship of ACRRM and Fellowship of the RACGP.
AMSA American
Express Gold Card
American Express will advise AMSA of the names, and member numbers, of AMSA members who take up this offer, for entry into their database. The AMA privacy policy can be accessed at www.ama.com.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 is designed to meet your needs as you study.
Insurance features include $20 million professional indemnity cover, driving license defence
and cover for Good Samaritan acts worldwide. Click here to join.
Elsevier
Elsevier Australia is a dedicated publisher of textbooks for the ANZ market. We
continuously work with the most respected researchers, academics and professionals and set a high
standard for quality in medical education. To register for regular updates and view our range of Medical
text titles click here.
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
Register your free online RACGP student membership with the option to upgrade for $49 to receive your free copy of Australian Medicines Handbook CD 2008 (valued at $115) and go in the draw to win a copy of John Murtagh's General Practice 4th edition (valued at $150). Find out more about the Prevocational General Practice Placements Program (PGPPP), career advice from GPs and more.
For details visit our website.
Competitions
Last Month's Winners
Congratulations to the winner of the May '08 Guitar Hero alternatives competition, Jeremy Smith. He suggested "Pants Hero". In this game, the individual must select the pair of pants most appropriate to the given occasion, whether it be trousers for trout fishing or slacks to woo a lady.
Congratulations also to the winner of the Free Stuff for Free Competition - the correct answer was "600" (new John Flynn Scholarships announced, increasing the total number offered to 1,200).
Med Revue Season
is Upon Us!
 Well, it's my favourite season of the year. Duck hunting season. Which occurs at the same time as Med Revue season. This month, we'd like to test your powers of comedy. Send us your best medical parody of a movie title (for example, The Darling Breast Buds of May, a stunning drama depicting one girl's journey through Tanner stage II) and we'll send you whatever prizes we happen to have lying around AMSA HQ. Send your entries to embolus@amsa.org.au.
Free Stuff in Exchange
for an Email
Once again, we're giving you the chance to win textbooks. It's a matter of reading the next two sentences, maybe two more after that, and then sending us an email - easier than cannulating a garden hose. So. AMSA recently made a submission to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. What is one of the ways that we propose to improve the provision of health services in rural areas? Here's a hint. Send your entries to embolus@amsa.org.au
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AMSA Launches AMWSS
The Australian Medical Workforce Scholarship Scheme (AMWSS) is a proposed alternative to the Bonded Medical Places program and HECS reimbursement scheme. AMSA has been opposed to Bonded Medical Places since their inception, due to the lack of support and incentives offered to students. Similarly, the HECS reimbursement scheme, whilst being worthwhile, has received a poor response from students. The AMWSS proposal details how we might combine money from the HECS Reimbursement Scheme with the Bonded Places to provide HECS relief and a living allowance to students. We have delivered this proposal to Government and the Opposition for comment and further discussion. You can view the proposal here.
10-Year Moratorium: Changes Underway
AMSA is preparing a proposal to change the 10 year moratorium on Medicare provider numbers that applies to international students who are trained domestically. Many international students who are trained in Australia, are discouraged from continuing to practice here because of 10 year moratorium. Our proposal will centre on allowing the ten year moratorium begin from the time that students commence medical school - hence recognising the time these students commit to training in Australia. If you wish to contribute to the drafting of this proposal, please contact the Vice President External on vpe@amsa.org.au.
AMSA Blood Drive: Keep Bleeding
The AMSA Blood Drive runs but for one month a year - that month is nearly here. The Blood Drive will be launched at Convention in Melbourne next week and run until the end of August. By donating blood, medical students help their medsocs compete for the coveted Vampire Cup AND save lives without even having to turn up to university. It looks like everyone's a winner. When the Blood Drive launches at Convention, you will be able to access the online form to log your donation and help steer your university to victory.
National Charity Drive - AMSA, Altruism & You
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 - So Few Sleeps Away I Might Just Stay Awake
As I write this, there are but five sleeps until Convention. As you read this, there will be fewer. Regardless, the excitement here in Melbourne is palpable. A mission to Lincraft in the city today was telling - as I smugly placed my body glitter, body paint and lycra selections on the counter, the assistant looked at me through squinty, suspicious eyes and said, "You're a MEDICAL STUDENT". I nodded (smugly), thinking that no Melbourne citizen was immune to Convention fever, no Lincraft assistant able to escape the promotional genius of the Melbourne08 promotions team. Then I realised I was wearing my hospital ID. Regardless, it's nearly here and we're excited. Remind yourselves of how good it's going to be here.
AMSA-RACGP National Leadership Development Seminar
The AMSA National Leadership Development Seminar (NLDS) will be held in Canberra from 1-3rd September. This prestigious event brings together meical students from all over Australia to debate, network and question Australian leaders in politics, health, education and media. Applications open on the 14th July, so start hotting up your CV. Click here for more info or talk to your AMSA rep today.
AMSA Life in the Real World Seminar - Register Now!
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. Some of these topics can be taxing on the appetite - registration includes a hot buffet breakfast and lunch. Register now on the AMSA website.
AMSA Launches Inaugural Training New Trainers Program
AMSA will proudly launch the first Training New Trainers (TNT) Program in the three days prior to years Global Health Conference in Melbourne. With 16 medical students from all corners of Australia and almost 30 from the Asia-Pacific region, the workshop will be the biggest of its kind ever hosted in the region. The TNT program aims to equip medical students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required upskill colleagues in areas relating to global health.
AMSA Welcomes New NEO
After an extensive application process, AMSA is pleased to announce the appointment of Colleen D'Arcy as the AMSA National Exchange Officer (NEO) for 2008 - 2009. As part of the IFMSA Standing Committee on Professional Exchange Program, Colleen will coordinate student exchanges for both Australian students abroad and foreign students within Australia. If you're interested in exploring how you can travel overseas on your elective or host foreign students at your Medical School, please contact her at neo@amsa.org.au.
Scholarships Galore!
If you haven't already checked out the extensive range of scholarships and bursaries offered by AMSA, do it. Now! You can read about them here. Currently on offer are the AMSA rural health bursaries, the AMSA Indigenous health essay completion, and another round of the Doctors Health Fund AMSA Medical Student Bursary Scheme. On the AMSA Scholarships page you can also read about a range of other Medical Student scholarships available.
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 2: The Readying
History is full of great sequels: Jaws II, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps... World War II. So we here at AMSA said to ourselves "Say, it went so well for the Germans - we can't help but enjoy the same unbridled success!"1. Which leads us to Panacea II and the hope that, now that you've seen the kind of pap the editor was forced to produce as filler in the first instalment, your festering rage can be channelled into something productive.
Write to us: tell us a story, compose an anthology of poetry devoted to pessaries or send an inappropriate Letter to the Editor asking for assistance with your love life. We're not fussy. But we do want more stuff from YOU, dear reader - get it out there by sending it to publications@amsa.org.au and look forward to seeing your name in print next to such literary luminaries as that made-up guy from Oxford.
1It's probably safe to assume that the collective knowledge of the Great Wars held at AMSA HQ derives from reruns of Hogan's Heroes and Dad's Army.
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.
Liz Hayem: The Future of Convention & UQ AMSA Rep
Why are you doing medicine? Oh well, you know. I want to be a super healer. After all... who doesn't? I want to look after every single aspect of patient care. I've done the science, and the nursing. Now medicine. Hmmm.... maybe I'll dabble in the art of being a physio next, then master speech pathology, then public health, then the world...
The most useful general medicine textbook is... people still use textbooks?
A-M-S-A stands for... Adept Medical Student Actors.
Mac vs PC? Depends on my mood. Sometimes i use my mac, sometimes my PC.
What do you hope to get out of Convention '08? I'm hoping to get out of there alive.
Can you give us a teaser of what's to come at Convention '09? I don't like to tease people. That is just mean. But it will set new standards for the next fifty years of conventions...
What did you learn today? That I like wearing berets.
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