In need of a bit of inspiration? Interested in developing your leadership skills? Feel like meeting some of this county’s biggest names in medico-politics? If yes to any of the above, the AMA Leadership Development Dinner may well be your cup of tea!

To be held in conjunction with the AMA National Conference in Melbourne this year, the Leadership Development Dinner will star guest speaker Michael Milton, holder of 12 olympic gold medals and Australia’s fastest ever skier. The dinner wll be held at The Grand Hyatt and will include a two-course dinner and beverages. Seats are available for medical students at a discounted price of $55.

To register and for details check out this attached flier or click through to the AMA website.

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Graduating soon? Be informed, Be prepared. Find out exactly what you will be entitled to as a junior doctor employed in the Victorian health care system and the new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) recently negotiated between AMA Victoria and the Victorian government by attending AMA Vic’s Doctors-in-training (DiT) forum this Wed 8th April.

Check out this poster for more details.

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A new newsletter has recently sprung up aiming to provide medical students along with our senior colleagues with advice on how to maintain ‘resilience’ during times of stress, or in their words “real resilience resources”. It is early days yet but this joint initiative from General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA) and the General Practice Students Network (GPSN) seems to be a good one. It might just be one of the many blogs out there, like this one worth subscribing too Check it out here.

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AMSA calls for more to be done to support international medical students studying in Australia, who after contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to Australian medical schools and meeting Australian healthcare standards are not guaranteed an internship in this country. Read AMSA’s media release in full here.

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An article published in the ANZ Journal of Surgery this month attempts to tease out the undergraduate perspective on contemporary teaching of anatomy in Australian medical schools. Do you agree? You can read the abstract here.

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AMSA & AMA Victoria are collaborating again this year to host a series of Leadership Development Workshops. The first 0ne will be held later this month, on Sat 28th Mar.

More details are available here on AMA Victoria’s website.

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Australian Health Ministers have reaffirmed their support of the commonwealth governments plan to nationalise the registration and accreditation process of doctors and other health care professionals.

Click here for the media release from the Australian Health Care Ministers Conference held last week in Melbourne.

Let MSCV know what you think about this contentious issue so we can better represent Victoria’s future doctors.

Email us via mscv [AT] mscv.ummss.org.au.

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Final year med students hoping to secure a Victorian internship in 2009, this one is for you: you can now register on PMCV’s Intern Match website. Doing this will allow PMCV to keep you updated on the process and allow you to start submitting those clinical referees…

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Last year the Prime Minister and Minister for Health & Ageing created the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) charged with the task of considering the future of the Australian health system and the long-term reforms required to meet current and future challenges. More info is available on the NHHRC website.

The interim report, initially published in December last year, is now available online.

While the report is pretty weighty, the section that is especially relevant to medical students is that concerned with medical education & training, titled  “Working for us: a sustainable health workforce for the future“.

MSCV is currently considering its position on this report and would love to incorporate your thoughts into our submission. Please let us know what you think by emailing us or commenting on this post.

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As you may have heard there has recently been talk of nationalising medical registration in this country, a process which so far has been carried out on a state level. While this may at the surface seem to offer many benefits to future doctors, critics argue it may erode the quality of medical training by allowing a currently independent process to be taken over by the government.

A panel discussion is being held on Monday 2nd March at 8pm in Kew,  Melbourne which will no doubt provide some clinical commentary on this issue, as it is being hosted by a local branch of the Victorian Liberal Party.

Find out more details here in the recent Newsletter from The Australian Association of Surgeons: newsletter-february-2009

Please note, the MSCV is strictly a political neutral organisation, and maintains no affiliation with any particular political parties.

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