New Zealand Medical Students' Association (NZMSA)

📣 NZMSA National Survey 2026 is now OPEN! 🙌

The NZMSA National Survey is your opportunity to share your thoughts, concerns and priorities as medical tauira on your education, wellbeing, clinical experiences and future aspirations in medicine. Your voice matters - the results of this survey help shape the advocacy of NZMSA, Te Oranga and your regional medical student association, ensuring that your voices are represented at regional and national levels. 💙

📋 Complete the survey here:
https://form.jotform.com/team/261690793484066/nzmsa-national-survey-2026

Please take 15-20 minutes to complete our survey. To recognise your time and effort, all tauira who complete the survey will be in to win grocery vouchers as koha. Additionally, the campus or clinical site with the highest proportion of tauira completing the survey will receive a pizza party! 😍🍕💫

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Thank you to everyone who has participated in NZMSA's campaign, Fuel the Future Workforce, this week. 🙌 In case you've had a busy week and missed the chance to be a part of this change, we've extended our deadline for petition and survey submissions to Sunday 10th May, 11:59pm. 💖

This is the last chance to share your clinical student experiences in our online campaign, put your voice forward, and create real change for future medical tauira. 💙 Participate online this weekend to be in the chance to win $10 grocery vouchers! 🤩

📌 NOTE: The survey and petition are only for clinical/ALM students. We hope our advocacy improves the clinical learning experience for pre-clinical/ELM students in the future! 🩵

🖋️ (1) SIGN THE PETITION: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmXGpuFk_YwBYpdT_BngNKwPYEnem19xX_5AIFCDKPcCmmIQ/viewform

📝 (2) COMPLETE THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRj7Xgrg0UW9PVVizajmJ6IyzBQoK9e8qQO2svcVsQUDCgPA/viewform

Signed the petition and completed the survey, but want to do something more? 🤔 Share your personal thoughts and/or experiences with food security via an advocacy letter, which directly sends a message to decision-makers who can create change. 📝⚖️💖

You can find a letter template relevant to you below, write about the issues that are important to you, and email it to us at [email protected]. 💙 Your concerns can be raised directly with the organisations that provide clinical placements for medical tauira. ✉️💫

🏙️ Urban placements - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_dBQMWvwzedKgMJrhwFUD02ukW9Zfg26gxCT5JIk7c/edit?usp=sharing

🏞️ Regional/rural placements - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xW2uhHcLY6UAWGooqrwjokpIYRBVJuN9RYKBNcL5Qns/edit?usp=sharing

📌 NOTE: This campaign is only for clinical/ALM students. We hope our advocacy improves the clinical learning experience for pre-clinical/ELM students in the future! 🩵

NZMSA's Fuel the Future Workforce campaign is out NOW!🔥

Bring your clinical student experiences to our in-person events and our online campaign to put your voice forward and create real change for future medical tauira. 💙 Participate in-person and online to be in the chance to win $10 grocery vouchers! 🤩

📌 NOTE: The survey and petition are only for clinical/ALM students. We hope our advocacy improves the clinical learning experience for pre-clinical/ELM students in the future! 🩵

🖋️ (1) SIGN THE PETITION: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmXGpuFk_YwBYpdT_BngNKwPYEnem19xX_5AIFCDKPcCmmIQ/viewform

📝 (2) COMPLETE THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRj7Xgrg0UW9PVVizajmJ6IyzBQoK9e8qQO2svcVsQUDCgPA/viewform

Join our nationwide student campaign, Fuel the Future Workforce, coming to a clinical campus near you! 🌱🍎🩺
Bring your student experiences to our in-person events in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Waikato, Waitematā and Middlemore, as well as our online campaign, to put your voice forward and create real, equitable change for future medical tauira. 💙
We have a limited number of $10 grocery vouchers as koha for your participation - be in to win by joining our campaign! 🤩🔥

At NZMSA, we know that financial hardship is a daily reality for many medical tauira. That’s why we are launching our nationwide student campaign, Nourish Our Future. 🌱🍎🩺
Bring your student experiences to our in-person and online campaign event to put your voice forward and influence medical schools, placement providers, and decision-makers, helping create real, equitable change for future cohorts of medical tauira. 💙 More details to be announced soon! 👀

SMTSCA is back for round 2, and we have decided to do an advice column. 🔥 We have pooled together 5 main questions from the anonymous survey. Swipe to read some questions from fellow medical tauira and answers from the advocacy rōpū! ☺️💙

What are these ACE applications TIs keep talking about? What does it mean for you in 4th/5th year? 🤔 While you're not an applicant, consider how your clinical experiences might influence your future career in this basic breakdown of the ACE process. 🩺💙🌟

📣 Next week, Te Whatu Ora will have a panel to discuss how clinical placements will be run for the new Waikato Medical School. There will be one UoA and one UoO representative sitting on this panel - help inform our tauira on your experiences with clinical placements, so that they can best represent our student voices at this panel! 💭💙

🔗 Link to Google Form: https://forms.gle/u9iJ5YaRQQnFMFNa8