AMSA Orange Guide 2020

Policy
Policy is the beating heart of AMSA’s advocacy,
serving as a fundamental guide to how we
represent Australia’s 17,000 medical students.
Spanning a multitude of issues that affect medical
students and the communities they live in, AMSA
policies combine the latest evidence with the
views of medical students to codify our positions.
Each policy statement is written by a team of
Australian medical students and voted on by your
representatives at AMSA National Council.
Not only does AMSA policy ensure that we take
robust and representative positions to external
stakeholders, getting involved in a policy team gives
medical students a valuable opportunity to develop
their policy skills. AMSA has a proud history of
providing medical students with their first start in
policy and helping them develop the skills to be the
change-makers of the future.
In 2020, we will develop policies on diverse topics
such as vaccination, internship applications and the
rural health workforce. We will also be working hard
to provide our members more opportunity to help
shape our policy base by giving their input during
the review process and Council discussion.
GET
INVOLVED!
Policies are written, reviewed and presented at AMSA
National Council by medical students just like you!
No experience is required to be involved with AMSA
policy. Here’s how you can get involved:
Why a policy is written
e.g.
Recommendations
for key stakeholders
Keeping AMSA up to date
Survey of members
Contemporary relevance
Upcoming election opportunity
Policy submission suggestion
Policy writing and review
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AMSA
National
Council
Up to date
evidence
and statistics
Have your say in our policies
• Keep tabs on the AMSA Facebook page to respond
to callouts to join a policy team in January, April or
August.
• Talk to your AMSA representative about how to
get involved in policy review and ThinkTanks at
your university.
• Head to AMSA National Council to get involved in
the policy discussion.
• Check out our policy base on the AMSA website.
• Get in touch with the National Policy Officer, Travis
Lines (travis.lines@amsa.org.au), to be added to
the policy mailing list, to suggest a new policy idea
or to ask any questions you have about AMSA
policy.
AMSA President
Jessica Yang
on ABC Radio
Policy in action!
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