Governments need to match their strident public concern for doctors’ health with some action. Doctors need to feel assured that they'll receive confidential health care #mh4docs bit.ly/2Bqd7Vg @AnnastaciaMP Steven Miles Geoff Toogood AMAQueensland @Jess_C_Abbott @DrHelenSchultz

AMSA's #MentalHealth Initiatives Guide for Medical Faculties. Compiling the initiatives that students value from around the country, so medical schools can learn from each other how to better support student wellbeing. Read now: amsa.org.au/blog/mental-he… #MH4docs #crazysocks4docs

And the 2018 report is live The Lancet! The nature and scale of the response to #ClimateChange will be the determining factor in shaping the #Health of nations for centuries to come #LancetClimate18 bit.ly/lancetcountdown

"The findings of the 2018 Lancet report are clear ... We cannot sleepwalk through this health emergency any longer." World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the #LancetClimate18 report bit.ly/lancetcountdown

‘Revolutionising ED teaching’ – congrats to FACEM Dr Zafar Smith, who has won the AMSA Australia National Award for Teaching Excellence. Read about his work: ace.mn/acemr23c5c Victoria Brazil Alex Farrell James Cook Uni peter brown! #FOAMed #FOAMsim

AMSA proud to have partnered with The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change MJA The Royal Australasian College of Physicians for the #LancetClimate18 Australian Policy Brief and launch. bit.ly/lancetcountdown

Today the AMSA 2018 team had our last trip to Parliament House before handover. Wonderful to meet with Catherine King MP and discuss how new medical schools are not the answer- focus on vocational training the way forward

Senator Jordon Steele-John is a great champion for doctors with disabilities, it has been a pleasure to work with him on making medical school more accessible @Jordonsteele

Thanks for your advocacy ⁦AMAQueensland⁩ - #mandatoryreporting laws in WA encourage doctors to seek help for mental health. Doctors who get help will provide safer care - its in the interests of patients and their doctors for WA model to be implemented in all states #MH4Docs

Stories from unaccredited surgical registrars are rarely in the public domain. This account from an unaccredited surgical registrar in NSW is the most brutally honest and harrowing of experience I have ever read. This cannot stand. mindbodymiko.com/the-ugly-side-…

There are lots of well meaning tweets on my timeline today from outraged senior doctors, but this needs more than tweets. We all need to stop pretending this is happening at other hospitals. It’s happening are your hospital, right now. So what can you do? Here’s my list.

“I couldn’t keep my eyes open, but I could keep my mouth shut.” #mh4docs #ditlyf mindbodymiko.com/the-ugly-side-… @amacdt

The RACGP provided advice to COAG Health Council in August last year, stating that the proposed amendments to mandatory reporting laws were not enough to remove the barriers for doctors seeking care. The advice was not taken bit.ly/2MPlFZZ

"The medical profession can do amazing things when they stand together for a common cause" AMSA Australia President Jessica Yang gets standing ovation. #amanatcon AMA President AMA Media ama.com.au/ausmed/amsa-pr…

The AMA has released the Report on the 2019 Gender Equity Summit held in March. All participants are asked to identify three immediate actions they will take as a result of the Summit #WomenInMedicine #genderequity AMA President AMA Media @amacdt ama.com.au/gp-network-new…

"Abuse is not education....Humiliation is not education... Eating our young is, most certainly, not education". But as this is the reality for many medical students and doctors-in-training, AMA Victoria is determined to change this unkind and unwelcoming culture.

Doctors fear scrapping the medevac law could prove deadly sbs.com.au/news/doctors-f…

AMSA Australia stands with #MyIDMyIdentity and celebrates Victoria's passing of laws that allow change of gender marker on birth certificates without forced medical intervention. 📷 AMSA Global Health Conference 2019 #makewaves19

The Australian Medical Association has declared climate change a “health emergency”. bit.ly/2PzNeva

The AMA has joined the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and Doctors for the Environment Australia – in recognising climate change as a health emergency #ClimateChange #auspol The BMA AMA Doctors for the Environment Australia bit.ly/2lQW9Kt