Doctors’ health advisory services are available in the Australian states and territories to provide personal advice to doctors and medical students facing difficulties.

Click here for contact details.

AMA Victoria Peer Support Service - for doctors in Victoria and Tasmania

The AMA offers all doctors a unique web-based tool that enables them to evaluate the safety of their roster, and help make hospitals safer for patients and doctors. The AMA's fatigue risk assessment tool enables doctors to track their work, on-call, recreational and sleeping hours over a week, and determine whether their work arrangements are placing them at risk of serious fatigue. Click here for the assessment tool.

Health and wellbeing of junior doctors

AMA position statement, Health and wellbeing of doctors and medical students - 2011

Managing the risks of fatigue - an AMA guide for general practitioners

Junior doctors: tips for staying healthy and well, adapted from the AMA position statement, The health and wellbeing of medical students and practitioners - 2006

Australian Medical Students Association, The Healthy Body Healthy Mind Campaign

An apple a day keeps the doctor away: a health and wellbeing guide for JMOs, Postgraduate Medical Education Council of Tasmania

RCubed, Real Resilience Resources - General Practice Registrars Australia and the General Practice Students Network

The Doctor’s Compass - A guide to Prevocational Training in NSW developed by the NSW JMO Forum - available from the NSW Institute of Medical Education and Training

Personal health issues and strategies, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

A Complete Check-up: Doctors' Mental Health and Wellbeing, Rural Health Education Foundation

AMA Survey Report on Junior Doctor Health and Wellbeing

Stresses change but do not go away – the health and wellbeing of senior doctors, Professor Geoff Dobb (Ausmed 19 October 2009)

Safe working hours – doctors in training a best practice issue, Mr Andrew Lewis, AMA Victoria

The conspiracy of silence - emotional health among medical practitioners, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Creating a culture of care - junior doctor well-being in hospital settings, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Personal health issues and strategies, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

Why don’t you have your own GP? Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

Papers from the 6th National Doctors’ Health Conference

"Eight principles for being a resilient doctor" – edited extract from the book First do no harm – being a resilient doctor in the 21st century by Adjunct Associate Professor Leanne Rowe AM and Professor Michael Kidd AM. (First Do No Harm is published by McGraw-Hill Australia and is available from medical bookstores and from Dymocks and Angus & Robertson (ISBN 9780070276970). Royalty payments are shared with the Karmel Trust of Flinders University and the National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse, at Monash University.)

The mental health of doctors: a systematic literature review - executive summary - August 2010, beyondblue: the national depression initiative

Medical Journal of Australia articles

The health and wellbeing of junior doctors: insights from a national survey

Keeping the doctor healthy: ongoing challenges

The national Junior Medical Officer Welfare Study: a snapshot of intern life in Australia

The student and the junior doctor in distress – “Our duty of care” – Proceedings of the Conference of the Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils 19–20 July 2001

Doctors’ health and wellbeing: taking up the challenge in Australia

Doctors' Health and Lifestyle - eMJA, The Medical Journal of Australia, 4 October 2004

 The AMA has prepared posters on doctors' health which are suitable for communal areas within hospitals such as common rooms and on notice boards.

 If you are an AMA Member and would like to order one of our doctors' health posters, please email ditnetwork@ama.com.au