“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…
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…
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…
*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.…
(أم الدنيا) Om El-donia means ‘Mother of the World’. St Paul’s Bay, Malta 2016 I will never forget my first General Assembly (GA) March Meeting held in the island nation of Malta in 2016. In my first year of university, before I could tell the difference between an artery and…
Engaging your cohort in Global Health related events can be pretty challenging. One thing Global Health events often don’t have as an incentive for attendance is the “selfish factor”: that little buzz (ie. suturing skills at surgical nights) that makes people more likely to attend an event because they…
Over the past year, AMSA Code Green has been interviewing environmentally-minded medical doctors from around Australia. We’ve asked them what inspired them to get involved with environmental advocacy; how they fit this work into their medical careers; and what challenges they’ve had to overcome in juggling medicine and environmentalism. Perhaps most…
Now that Macquarie Medical School has opened its doors for its first batch of newly minted medical students, the health workforce of Australia approaches a crossroads. As each year passes, matching graduating medical students to an internship is becoming more difficult, with international medical students bearing most of the consequences…
Welcome to AMSA Global Health’s Weekly Blog, Over this coming year, we will be showing you all the amazing things that Australian Medical Students are doing in the field of global health as well as some of the exciting developments that occur on the international stage. But what even is…
Words by Dr Forbes McGain Climate change has deleterious effects upon our health and our environment. Healthcare also contributes to CO2 emissions and thus climate change by the purchase and discard of medical consumables, transport for patients, families and hospital staff, and direct hospital energy usage. Sustainability is about much…
