AMSA Global

The Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA) is the peak representative body for Australian medical students. The key mandate of the Association is to connect, inform and represent every one of Australia’s 14,000 medical students.

The activities of AMSA are all based around our key objectives of connecting, informing and representing Australian medical students:

AMSA Activities

Advocacy: AMSA provides a voice for medical students, ensuring their concerns are heard by all levels of government and other relevant stakeholders in the medical education arena.

Students: AMSA provides a wide range of benefits to prospective, current and graduating medical students, and actively engages with students through local AMSA Subcommittees.

Events: AMSA holds many national events each year, connecting Australian medical students and providing educational and leadership opportunities.

Projects: AMSA organises projects based around two main categories: health and wellbeing; and community.

Global and Rural: AMSA advocates strongly on global and rural issues, and maintains strong relationships with affiliate organisations with similar aims.

Publications: AMSA produces many publications that form a key conduit by which the Association informs and connects Australian medical students.

AMSA Global

Global health is high on the medical student agenda.

The AMSA Global Health Committee (AGH) is AMSA's chief representative body for international health, and is comprised of a GHN representative from each medical school's Global Health Group (GHG). On the ground, Global Health Groups facilitate international health projects and advocacy activities.

Through its association with the International Federation of Medical Student Associations' (IFMSA), AMSA offers Australian students the chance to attend IFMSA General Assemblies to discuss pertinent global health issues. Senior students are also able to use the IFMSA Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE) network to access overseas exchanges and electives.

AMSA recognises its place in a coalition of international students and also supports a delegation to the Asian Medical Students' Association Conference (AMSC) every year.

AMSA is continuing to collate information about electives with the aim of making international elective placements easier to organise and more accesible to Australia's medical students. We will soon be calling upon you to submit information about your experiences with electives, so stay tuned for the launch of the database!