- Welcome to 2021
by Jacqueline Bredhauer After a year of confusion, chaos, and zoom, we welcome you… to another year, of confusion, chaos and zoom! COVID-19 is still kicking. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have grand plans in store for AMSA Global Health! Some of them are just, well, a little up in the air. 2020 was… - Australian medical students as part of IFMSA delegation to World Health Assembly
by Carrie Lee It is the first day of the World Health Assembly, and all of the delegates are packed into the grand Assembly Hall at the Palais des Nations. I can’t believe I’m here. Looking down from high up in the galleries, we can see rows of tables below occupied by ministers of health.… - AMSA at the UN Interactive Multi-stakeholder Hearing on Universal Health Coverage
by Gavin Wayne, Vuong Phan, Isabelle Nehme, Zoe Byrne and Natalie Ward In preparation for the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage, talking place on 23rd September 2019, an interactive multi-stakeholder hearing was convened at the United Nations in New York, on 29th April 2019. AMSA’s presence consisted of a delegation of… - AMSA Global Health Intensive: Indigenous Australian HealthThe inaugural AMSA Global Health Intensive (AGHI) has come and gone, and what a ride it’s been. Formerly known as Training New Trainers, AMSA’s flagship training program was entirely redesigned in 2018. We decided that we needed to reshape and refocus on providing capacity building for Australian medical students at the standard that they expect,…
- #MoveMindfully with AMSA Code Green- By Georgia Behrens
“That? That’s not a disease, that’s just someone who lived in a city!” the tutor scoffed. “It’s carbon from air pollution. That’s probably what your lungs will look like by the time you die, too.” In my first-ever wet lab, my tutor handed me a flaccid, disembodied lung and asked if I could identify the… - Overweight and Obesity – Who is to blame? By Concetta Masterson
While a lot has been said about the causes of obesity, there is a common thread to all – we reach too often for the packet of chips and not often enough for the gym gear. But, even this sentence alone makes it painfully clear that the individual is at fault. They are the ones… - Global health in our medical curriculum – how does it fit in?
As has been reflected in some of our previous blog posts, global health is tricky to define. It encompasses all manner of areas, from refugee health, to climate change, reproductive rights and prevention of non-communicable diseases – our AMSA project groups cover but a small portion of the vast terrain that global health traverses. Importantly,… - Building medical competency abroad – why AMSA students are going on international exchange
Medical students in Australia are showing an increased interest in participating in international medical training, and AMSA is meeting the need with the SCOPE exchange program – an international collaboration between AMSA and universities in the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA). AMSA students have a myriad of reasons for wanting to go on… - #Detentionharmshealth: How a small idea became a march with a big impact by Adele Evans
“As medical students, we believe health is a human right. We are taught to care for all people, no matter who they are or where they come from. To treat all people with compassion and respect. To advocate for our patients…This is not about politics, this is about health. This is about human life”–Carrie Lee… - First do no harm: The role of medical education in addressing sexual, intimate partner and family violence by Anna MP
*Content warning: sexual violence, intimate partner violence, family violence* The role of medical education is to train future doctors to meet the healthcare needs of their population at the individual level. More than just didactic teaching, it is preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals for the challenges of tomorrow. With shifting population demographics and…