AMA Aims and Objectives

The Australian Medical Association is an organisation whose members are registered medical practitioners and medical students.

The AMA exists to:

• promote and advance ethical behaviour by the medical profession and protect the integrity and independence of the doctor/patient relationship;
• promote and advance the public health;
• protect the academic, professional and economic independence and the well being of medical practitioners; and
• preserve and protect the political, legal and industrial interests of medical practitioners.

The AMA will achieve these aims by:

• fostering and sustaining consultation, co-operation and communication within the medical profession;
• acting as the principal co-ordinating and lobbying body for the medical profession;
• fostering unity amongst medical practitioners by providing a forum for their opinions;
• promoting the achievement and maintenance of high clinical and ethical standards in medical practice; and
• fostering communication between the medical profession and the community.