Australian Medical Students' Association - AMSA

🌅 Applications are now open for the BRIS27 Subcommittee Team!
Want to help bring the 68th AMSA National Convention to life?
Whether you’re passionate about events, marketing, logistics, sponsorship, welfare, academics, IT, or creating unforgettable experiences, there’s a place for you on the team.
✨ Join our BRIS27 family!
🤝 Develop leadership and professional skills.
🎉 Help deliver the BIGGEST student run conference in the world
📖 Read our Subcommittee Booklet to learn more about each portfolio.
🔗 Apply via the link in our bio.
🗓️ Applications close 11:59 PM AEST, Sunday 16th August.
We can’t wait to meet the next generation of the BRIS27 team! 💙💛

Doctors. Founders. Authors. Innovators. 🩺✨
The CCIM26 speakers aren’t your typical conference panel; they’re the trailblazers showing us what’s possible beyond traditional hospital walls.
Come get inspired, build your network, and start designing a career that fits you.
📍 Gold Coast | 📅 4–5 Sept 2026
🏷️ USE CODE AMSA20

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the AMSA National Secretary and Medical Education Secretary! 📣

Looking to make an impact behind the scenes while helping shape the future of AMSA? 🌟

The National Secretary is a senior leadership position within the National Executive, supporting the Core Four, coordinating the organisation’s operations, and ensuring continuity across AMSA. This role follows a mid-year to mid-year transition model, beginning as Deputy Secretary before stepping into the National Secretary role. 🤝

The Medical Education Secretary plays a key role in keeping one of AMSA’s largest portfolios running smoothly. From managing communication platforms and coordinating meetings to supporting events, advocacy, sponsorship, podcasts, and student engagement, you’ll help drive the work of the Med Ed team while preserving institutional knowledge. 💻📚

Whether you’re passionate about organisation, leadership, or supporting volunteers, these roles are a fantastic opportunity to contribute to AMSA at a national level. 🧡

📝 Apply here:
https://tinyurl.com/amsasecretary2026app

📄 National Secretary Information:
https://tinyurl.com/amsanatsecinfo

📄 Medical Education Secretary Information:
https://tinyurl.com/mededsecinfo

We can’t wait to see your application! ✨

The Commonwealth Prac Payment has now been expanded to cover nine allied health degrees. While this is a welcome step towards supporting students on placement, medical students remain excluded.

Medical students complete some of the highest number of mandatory placement hours of any degree, often relocating, reducing paid work, and facing significant out-of-pocket costs just to meet course requirements.

For students from low-income, rural, and regional backgrounds, these financial pressures can be the difference between staying in medicine and leaving their degree. No student should have to choose between completing their placements and paying their bills.

🩺 Have you been affected? We’d love to hear your experience:
https://tinyurl.com/amsayourexperience

✍️ Help us advocate for change. Sign the petition calling on the Federal Government to extend the Commonwealth Prac Payment to medical students ahead of the 2027 review:
https://tinyurl.com/expandpracpayments

Every story and every signature helps strengthen our advocacy. 🧡

🚨 Rural Health Summit 2027 Core Four Callouts Open Now! 🚨

Want to bring one of AMSA’s biggest and most incredible events to your own local community? 😮 Now is your absolute chance, because callouts are officially open for bids to host RHS27! 🤠🫶🏻

After breaking records yet again, we want YOU to step up and bring the unique RHS magic to your town or city. Pass this onto your friends, tag your crew, or share it with anyone who has what it takes to lead the charge! 👯

Everything you need to get started is right here:

📁 Application Package: https://bit.ly/4vD4COu
📝 RHS Core Four Application: https://forms.gle/Hgwd193mReFymF1X8

⏳ Callouts close 1st of September. Get your bids in!

AMSA policy applications are open! 📣

AMSA is looking for medical students to join our final policy writing cycle of the year.

AMSA policy is one of the main ways medical students help shape national advocacy. Policies are written by medical students, voted on by medical students, and then used by AMSA in submissions, campaigns, meetings with decision-makers, and advocacy to governments, medical schools, health services and peak bodies.

This is not just a writing opportunity. Policy gives AMSA the evidence, direction and student mandate to push for real change. This year, AMSA’s policies on placement poverty have strengthened our push for medical students to be included in the Commonwealth Prac Payment. That policy-backed advocacy helped form the basis for the David Pocock and Helen Haines petition to end placement poverty, which was tabled in Parliament with 43,000 signatures and showed the scale of national support for action. 🩺

Council 3 policy topics include:

🍊 Antimicrobial Resistance
🍊 Student Safety and Professional Conduct in Medical Education
🍊 Pharmaceutical Financing and Relationship with Industry
🍊 Organ and Tissue Donation
🍊 Vocational Training Pathways

No previous policy writing experience is needed. You will work with other medical students and policy mentors to research the issue, consult with students and stakeholders, write the policy, and present it at AMSA Council. ✍️

This is a chance to shape national advocacy, turn student voices into action, and contribute to campaigns and wins that affect medical students across Australia.

Applications close Friday 17 July at 11:59pm AEST. ⏰

Apply here: https://forms.gle/ytYShSRRHkjEgVCy6