AMSA has policy on a number of issues relevant to medical students and regularly forms new policy as needed. Policy is formed by general medical students, AMSA Representatives, MedSocs or the AMSA Executive. A position statement put together by any or all of these parties becomes official AMSA policy when it is ratified by the AMSA Council. Once it is ratified it is then presented to the relevant bodies and made public. Some of the most recent issues on which AMSA has formed policy includes the current treatment of international students, climate change and health, as well as inter-professional education.
For all enquiries about AMSA Official Policy, please contact the AMSA Vice President External.
Click here to access AMSA’s Guide for Policy creation.
Compiled Brief Policy Statements
Click here to view AMSA’s Compiled Brief Policy Statements.
Official Policy Documents
2013
2012
- Medical curricula for the 21st century professional policy
- National intern allocation system policy
- Organ and tissue donation policy
- Student income support policy
- Medical student registration policy
- Marriage equality and health policy
- Policy on the 10 year Medicare provider number for international students
- Funding of medical programs policy
- Domestic full-fee places in public universities policy
- Health and wellbeing policy
- Policy on illicit drug reform
- Access to essential medicines policy
- Medical rural bonded scholarships policy
- Rural background entry policy
- Rural clinical schools policy
2011
- Bonded medical places policy
- Classification of medical programs policy
- Graduate entry medicine application process
- Health inequities and their social determinants policy
- Increased student numbers policy
- Internship positions for international medical students policy
- Overseas medical placements policy
- Refugee and asylum seeker health policy
- Transport concessions policy
2010
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in medical curricula
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student recruitment and entry policy
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student retention and support policy
- Climate change and health policy
- Complementary and alternative medicine in medical education policy
- Global Health and the medical curriculum policy
- Health and human rights policy
- Information technology and the delivery of medical education policy
- National barrier exam policy
- Physician assistants policy
- Rural clinical schools policy
2009
- International medical students career development policy
- International medical students family work restrictions policy
- Interprofessional medical education policy
- Millenium development goals policy
2008
- Early streaming policy
- Quality clinical placements policy
- Shared clinical placements policy
- Training in expanded setting policy
2007