Australian Medical Association

The Health and Wellbeing of Doctors and Medical Students – 2011 replaces the Health and Wellbeing of Medical Students and Practitioners – 2006.

The health and welfare of doctors continues to be a priority for the AMA.  Junior doctors continue to experience distress in their workplace.  This position statement provides a basis for future AMA lobbying and addresses a number of current and topical issues faced by doctors in training on a daily basis.

It includes details on support mechanisms that should be put in place by training providers to address issues related to doctors’ health. The revision of the document also represented an opportunity to include recent developments in doctors’ health such as mandatory reporting.

AMA Safe Hours Audit 2006

KNOW YOUR RISK?

The report is presented in two volumes. Volume one provides an overview. Volume two is a detailed discussion of the methodology, literature review, including a bibliography, and hypotheses generation.

AMA Position Statement: Hospital Medical Officers' Hours of Work and Workloads: A Strategic Approach to Occupational Health and Safety - 1996

Best Practice Rostering: Training and Resource Kit - Practical Tools for Rostering Doctors, July 2003

The report seeks to document the broad common themes identified in consultations with hospitals, medical training organisations, health departments and other stakeholders on the options available to promote the expansion of flexible work and training practices in the medical workplace.

This paper reviews the experiences of a number of western industrialised countries in the regulation of the hours of work for doctors in training as well as documenting the provisions that apply. While the Australian health system can benefit from this information, the applicability to Australia of the approaches taken and the provisions introduced in relation to doctors hours of work must be assessed having regard to the very different health systems in which they operate.

AMA Safe Hours Campaign: Risk Assessment of Junior Doctor Rosters

Coopers and Lybrand were engaged by the AMA to conduct case studies in a number of public hospitals to identify the underlying cultural and organisational systems that contribute to junior doctors' work practices, current rostering practices and hours of work. The case studies were carried out in October and November 1997.