About the AMA Council of Doctors-in-Training
The AMA Council of Doctors-in-Training (AMACDT) provides strong representation and leadership on issues of importance to junior doctors. The AMACDT consists of nominees from all states and territories and meets four times a year to discuss the issues affecting junior doctors and how to address those issues through advocacy and communications.
In February each year, the AMACDT convenes a Trainee Forum to coincide with its council meeting. This provides an opportunity for medical colleges, societies and other trainee representative groups to progress issues of common interest to achieve results for trainees.
Members of the AMACDT in 2012
- Dr Rob Mitchell – Chair cdt.chair@ama.com.au
- Dr Ross Roberts-Thompson - Deputy Chair cdt.deputychair@ama.com.au
- Dr Tom Ward – Australian Capital Territory
- Dr Kathryn Austin – New South Wales
- Dr Sally Banfield –Northern Territory
- Dr Jake Parker – Northern Territory
- Dr Jennifer Williams – Queensland
- Dr Rick Fielke – South Australia
- Dr Michael Lumsden-Steel – Tasmania
- Dr Sam Merriel – Victoria
- Dr Christine Mandrawa– Victoria
- Dr Dror Maor – Western Australia
- Dr Cassandra Host – Western Australia
- Mr James Churchill – President, Australian Medical Students Association
AMACDT Meeting Dates
Click on the highlighted dates below to access the Index to Agenda for each meeting.
- AMACDT Trainee Forum, 3 March 2012, Sydney
- AMACDT Meeting, 4 March 2012, Sydney
- AMACDT/AMACSD Conjoint Meeting 21 April 2012, Canberra
- AMACDT Meeting 22 April 2012, Canberra
- AMACDT Meeting 28-29 July 2012, Adelaide
- AMACDT Meeting 20-21 October 2012, Canberra
- AMACDT Trainee Forum, 19 February 2011, Melbourne
- AMACDT Meeting, 20 February 2011, Melbourne
- AMACDT Meeting, 30 April-1 May 2011, Sydney
- AMACDT Meeting, 23-24 July 2011, Canberra
- AMACDT Meeting, 15-16 October 2011, Canberra
AMACDT Strategic Plan
The AMACDT has a two-year strategic plan designed to deliver results for doctors-in-training. Key work areas and initiatives for the CDT include:
- Junior doctor education and training
- Workplace issues, health and safety
- Communication
- Workforce
- Membership
- Public health
- EHealth
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We welcome your comments and suggestions. Junior doctors can contact the AMACDT by emailing dit@ama.com.au. Alternatively, you can post a comment to our website here.
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The conflict of interest -service delivery - psychiatry training
Psychiatry is a very politicised field and the Australian psychiatry is not exception.The public hospitals should provide teaching and education to renew the medical workforce, unfortunately the operational policies of current administrators seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
Directors of Training ( DOTs) and Trainees are employees of the Area Health Service and it is the AHS which negotiates training post allocation. The DOTs do not make the final decision.
DOT’s job is to mainly keep things going for the service rather than any strategic planning.
Due to significant conflict of interest and dual role DoT should be appointed for three - year term only. This is the only way to separate service delivery from training and make the training more transparent.
Regards,
Chronic shortage of psychiatry trainees in NSW
The problem is that Director of Trainings are more concerned about the service delivery than training requirements.
The psychiatry training is the best example as there is a chronic shortage of trainees due to unattractiveness of psychiatry, low pass rate at the exams ( 30-40%), the risk of being assaulted by the unwell patient, the mandatory rural training and very expensive mandatory postgraduate course ($21.000 - NSWIOP PCP Course).
I would like to add a few words about the feeling among many junior medical doctors from the public hospitals across NSW Health. The majority of them believe that very often they were unfairly treated, underpaid and exploited by the dysfunctional health system.
The current opinion of junior doctors will have an enormous consequence to the future recruitment of young people into the field of medicine and public health.
No pay in week 1
I just got my contract to start work this year as an intern in Network 10 (wagga wagga base) in nsw. it proposes that we don't get payed for the first (compulsory) orientation week. Is this standard for all networks? Anybody had the same problem?
As far as I am concerned the
As far as I am concerned the David Jones and Myer pay their employees the orientation week. How come that NSW Health proposed such ridiculous idea?
orientation pay
I'm an intern in network 15 (blacktown/mt druitt/bathurst) and we definitely got paid for our attendance during orientation week. good luck!
The madatory rural training
The rural training constitute an indirect discrimination against some groups of trainees, for instance trainees who were pregnant or had other important caregiving responsibilities.The RANZCP's Trainee Representative Committee called for a review of the educational basis of Mandatory Rural Training, and a Rural Working Party was commissioned by the Committee for Training for that purpose.
The Trainee Representative Committee accepts that there are a range of views within the College as to the moral obligation the institution owes various disadvantaged communities; our contention in this case, however, is that service provision is the responsibility of Government. Should they wish to do so, Government could certainly step in and mandate rural service terms as a condition of employment.
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