20 Mar 2023

e-DiT Chair’s message – March 2023

It’s been a busy start to 2023, both at the AMA and in my clinical role.

20 Mar 2023

First Federal CDT meeting of 2023

The Federal AMA Council of Doctors in Training met for the first time this year on 4 March over Zoom.

20 Mar 2023

Release of the 2022 Medical Training Survey Results

The results of the 2022 Medical Training Results were released in early February 2023, confirming that the working conditions and culture within health settings urgently need to be improved.

20 Mar 2023

Tell us how transition to GP college-led training is going

On 1 February 2023 the Australian General Practice (AGPT) program completed the transition to College-led training.

20 Mar 2023

Trainee Forum

The first AMA Trainee Forum of 2023 was held on Thursday 23 February via Zoom, bringing together the trainee committee chair of each speciality medical college to discuss flexible training.

16 Mar 2023

Broken Medicare indexation erodes affordable access to GPs

The AMA warns that inadequate Medicare indexation is short-changing patients and leading to falling bulk billing levels and says there is an urgent need to address affordable patient access.

16 Mar 2023

Medicare, DVA and PBS claims operational after hiccups this week

A message from Services Australia following the delays in processing Medicare, DVA and PBS claims earlier this week.

16 Mar 2023

Medibank Data Breach update

An update on the 2022 Medibank cyber-attack.

16 Mar 2023

Parenthood and medicine – A balancing act

Drs4Drs have a message of advice and support for those who are or will be balancing medicine with being a parent.

09 Mar 2023

AMA’s payroll tax advocacy takes to the streets in NSW

A press conference in Sydney has heard the payroll tax is a “patient tax” which will “turbocharge the decline of bulkbilling”.