Please click on the links below to take you to the relevant page.
Submissions
Click here to download the AMA Council of Doctors in Training - Submission to the Medical Training Review Panel
Click here to download the AMA Council of Doctors In Training - Submission to the National Health And Hospitals Reform Commission
Click here to download the AMA Submission to 2005 Biennial Review of Provider Number Legislation
Click here for the AMA Submission to HREOC on 'Striking the Balance: Women, men, work and family'
Click here for the AMA Submission DEST Medical Education Study
Publications
E_Dit
Becoming a doctor and bonded medical school places - a guide for prospective medical students
Comparison of Specialist Medical Colleges
2005 Biennal Review of Provider Number Legislation
Safe Handover : Safe Patients Guidance on Clinical Handover for Clinicians and Managers
AMA Safe Hours Audit Report 2006
Programs
Safe Hours
Work Life Flexibility
Member Services
As an AMA member you are entitled to special discounts and benefits on a wide range of products and services. Click here to browse the many AMA member benefits.
State/Territory AMA Doctor-in-Training Links
Queensland
Western Australia
Victoria
Tasmania
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
South Australia
New Zealand Medical Association Doctors-in-Training Council
Job Share Register
The AMA has reached an agreement with MJA Classifieds to provide members with free access to an online job share register. This allows you to register your interest in job sharing as well as search for job share opportunities. Please click here to go to the job share register.
Position Statements
Prevocational Medical Education and Training
Work Life Flexibility
Safe Hours
Personal Safety and Privacy for Doctors
Workplace Facilities and Accommodation for Hospital Doctors
Employment of Medical Students in Hospitals
Task Substitution in Hospital Settings
Early Streaming Into Specialty Training
Core Terms in Internship
Pre-Internships In Medical School
Recognising Medical Teaching and Training in Private Practice
Medical Training in Expanded Settings Including the Private Sector
Accommodation And Appointment Standards For Community Placements
About the AMACDT
The AMA provides a strong and independent voice - and often the only voice - for doctors-in-training (DITs). It does this through the AMA Council of Doctors-in-Training (AMACDT).
What is the AMACDT?
The AMACDT is a committee of AMA Federal Council and consists of:
- the elected DIT representative on Federal Council
- a member of the AMA Federal Executive
- a DIT representative from every State and Territory
Observers attend from the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA), Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) and, at present, from organisations of trainees in General Practice, Psychiatrists and Anaesthetics.
The AMA in every State and Territory has provision for a DIT representative on Branch Council and a State DIT committee. These feed into the AMACDT, which meets quarterly and convenes teleconferences on specific issues. Through this structure, the AMACDT is a national representative body for junior doctors and has a direct line to AMA Federal Council and the Federal Executive. The AMACDT is represented on a number of external bodies including the Medical Training Review Panel (MTRP), which was established under the Health Insurance Act to monitor and review the effect on junior doctors and the medical workforce of Medicare arrangements, postgraduate education and training requirements.
What the AMACDT Does
Ever felt that you’re stuck in a system where nobody takes much notice of your personal views and needs? Where others seem to know all the rules and claim to know what’s best for you? That legislators and other decision makes are not aware of DIT views or don’t give them enough weight? That some of the attitudes and practices you encounter ought to be questioned? Or even that your senior colleagues in the medical profession seem to be part of the problem rather than the solution?
We hope you haven’t felt that way. But one or more of these questions have crossed the minds of many DITs. Sometimes the issues are local and are best handled by the State/Territory Branch of the AMA or your doctors’ union. At times they may involve federal legislators, national policy on postgraduate medical education, vocational trainee selection and bodies like the medical Colleges, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) and the Australian Health Ministers’ Council. Or they may be even tougher, requiring long term attitudinal and cultural change in the profession and the hospital “industry”.
The AMACDT has a role in all these things. Longer term initiatives include:
- AMA Safe Hours campaign (unsafe hours have not been eliminated, but the issue is firmly on the agenda and change is under way)
- policy on the first two years of postgraduate training and experience (through the MTRP)
- fair access to vocational training
- more practice opportunities outside the public hospital system
- Work Life Flexibility project - generating attitudinal and practical changes in medical training and employment
Members of the AMACDT
Dr Alex Markwell - Federal Councillor
Dr Harry Eeman - ACT
Dr Katherine Jeffrey - NSW
Dr Daniel O'Neill - NT
Dr Samuel Goodwin - NT
Dr Shane George - QLD
Dr Selma Torronen - SA
Dr Kim Dobromilsky - TAS
Dr Xavier Yu - VIC
Dr Ruth Blackham - WA
Mr Michael Bonning - Australian Medical Students Association
The AMACDT now has a MySpace page - go to www.myspace.com/amacdt and add yourself as a friend, post comments and keep up-to-date. You can also find the AMA Doctor-in-Training Network on Facebook.
If you have any comments on this webpage or there is something you would like to see on it, then please feel free to e-mail or if you would like to contact any AMACDT state representative please send an e-mail to ditnetwork@ama.com.au