AMSS Committee for 2009
A big congratulations to Mark as incoming President and to all those elected into the 2009 committee. We are spoilt to have so much interest and so to those who were not so fortunate to be elected as 'official' committee members, we will need all of your help to run a great AMSS in 2009 and so pleas stay involved

President – Mark Hassall
Vice President – Sophie Nelson
Sponsorship Officer – Andrew Shepherd
Membership Benefits Officer – Rocita Ho
Treasurer – Tom Crowhurst
Secretary – Despina Papps
Senior AMSA Representative – Sam Whitehouse
Junior AMSA Representative – Victoria Cox
Clinical Coordinator – Stacey Seakins
Pre-Clinical Coordinator – Sam Ellison
Senior Education Representative – Sam Kirchner
Junior Education Representative – Yi Han Cheng
AMA Representative – Ross Roberts-Thomson
Education Forums Convenor – Jenna Paterson
Publications Officers – Sam LaBroome and Ken Lim
Sports Officers – Laura Rudaks and Rebecca Wayte
IT Officer – Kian Lim
Philanthropy Officer – Rebecca Paxton
Rural Representative – Amy Schirmer
Overseas & Multicultural Representative – Rebecca Zhao
Historian – Chris Wong
Photographer – John Tillett
Men’s Officer – Joe Overland
Women’s Officer – Soph Riddell
Functions Officers – Tim Ganguly, Katie Hondow and Corrine Maiolo
MedCamp Convenors – Rebecca Paxton and Andrew Burch
Skullduggery Convenors – Daina Rudaks and Sean Jolly
MedRevue Convenors – Ayesha Richardson, Rosie McBain and Ross Roberts-Thomson
Insight Chair – <To be elected at Insight AGM>
AUSS Chair – Angela Chang and Matt Masterson
AUPA Chair – <To be elected at AUPA AGM>
AUHRA Liaison – <To be elected at AUHRA AGM>

AMA(SA) Student Elective Grant
Are you intending to apply for a 2008 AMA(SA) Student Elective Grant? -  Applications close on 31st August.   

To be considered for a grant applicants must be travelling to developing countries or Aboriginal communities or undertaking electives in rural South Australia with a view to becoming a rural practitioner.  Applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents and AMA(SA) members. 

Complete the application and return to us by the closing date to be considered for one of the available grants. 

Successful applicants will be advised in writing. 

For further information please contact the AMA(SA) on 8267 4355 or Rick Fielke (amasa@amss.org.au)

NLDS Applications Open Soon!
The AMSA National Leadership Development Seminar will be held from 1st to the 3rd of September 2008.

Held in our nation's capital and proudly supported by the Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, delegates are provided with an opportunity to question parliamentarians about issues facing medical students and Australia's health system today. Attendees also participate in workshops designed to improve skills in advocacy, media and negotiation. This seminar is an opportunity for medical students to spend three days exploring the concept of leadership with prominent figures in Australian health and politics.

For more information, visit the AMSA website.

Peer 2 Peer
The AMSS is organising for the first time in it's history a peer tutorial program that will run parrallel with the curriculum.
Please visit http://amss.org.au/p2p for more information.

IMPORTANT: Due to a technical error, please re-register if you signed up before Wednesday 9/4/08. Otherwise, your registration may be omitted!

AMSS Footy Tipping
Once again, the AFL Season is upon us; so it's time to begin the annual AMSS AFL Tipping Competition. It'll be mate against mate, to see who will come out on top in 2008. To join, simply follow the link below:

http://footytips.com.au/jc.cfm?c=77705&P=imatinib

It's free to join! So if you're a hardcore supporter, it's time to show your skill. If you barely know the game, you might just get lucky. The first game starts on Thursday, so be quick!

Photo Gallery Update
Head on over to the AMSS photo gallery to see photos from Skullduggery, Medcamp, First Year Welcome, Year 4-5 Welcome, and more! The password needed to access some of the restricted galleries will be emailed to all AMSS members soon.

The gallery will be updated constantly throughout the year, so make sure you check back here often!

Feel free to send any photos you might have to us or drop them off at the AMSS office.

Visit the photo gallery,

General Practice Students Network (GPSN)

Are you interested in finding out more about the exciting specialty of general practice?  Then the GPSN is for you!

The GPSN was started up in the winter of 2007 and is the product of a joint initiative between General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA) and the Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA).  It is run by medical students, for medical students.

GPSN seeks to foster a greater awareness of General Practice as both a lifestyle and a career, and provides a forum by which members can give feedback on medical students' issues relating to General Practice.  GPSN produces a number of educational and professional resources for medical students, including a series of publications, academic and social events and regular communication via electronic means to promote General Practice.

Joining the GPSN is free!  To sign-up now, go to www.gpsn.org.au. 

For more information please visit the GPSN website at www.gpsn.org.au or contact the GP Student Ambassador for The University of Adelaide, Melanie Winter, at gpsn.adelaide@gpra.org.au or on 0407 613 160.

International Conference of Asian and Australasian Medical Students

AMSA hopes to send a delegation that represents its cultural diversity and make the event even more culturally rewarding – thus all medical students from all backgrounds should apply! Up to 15 general delegate and two chief delegate positions are available!

AsMSA has two major annual events: The AMSC which is usually held in July and attracts over 500 delegates from 15 Oceania-Asia countries; and the EAMSC which is usually in January and has 200 delegates from 7 member countries.

The conference revolves around the theme and key speakers will be delivering numerous presentations in relation
to non-communicable diseases and health promotion in our region. There is also an extensive social program, that
doesn’t revolve around the conference title involving dinners, city tours and a final cultural extravaganza.

Applications closing date:
 General Delegate position 1st February 2008

Got questions? Want to know more? Email or call Ross on 0431 051 589.

AMSS Membership Survey 2008

The AMSS exists to serve its members –the medical students of the University of Adelaide.

In order to do this most effectively, we need your input… what needs changing, what needs improving, what’s working and what’s not.

In preparation for 2008, we are running an electronic survey of the entire medical student cohort. It would thus be great if you could spend five minutes filling out the survey, which will provide invaluable data and allow the AMSS to more effectively serve your needs during 2008 and beyond.

There will also be some great textbook and flash-card prizes on offer to randomly-selected students who complete the survey.

The survey can be completed at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=GinNEFzsOyIgu7e_2fFeaiUg_3d_3d

Thank you for taking the time to participate in the survey, the outcomes of which will be made available early next year.

To be the best organisation the AMSS can be…we need your feedback.

2008 AMSS Executive

Insight Calendar 2008
Insight is releasing its very first Calendar for 2008 featuring the 12 best photos from the inaugural Insight Photo Exhibition.
Register your interest for this by emailing insight@amss.org.au . Prices to be confirmed.
Calendars will be on sale at the Insight Development Fund Dinner, the Insight AGM and from Insight Committee members over the next couple of months.
Great for early xmas shopping…!

Development Fund Grants
Have a project or elective in a developing community in mind for the end of this year? Applications for Insight Development Fund Grants are NOW OPEN .

Submit a 500 word application including your details, location of project or elective, and what the money will be used for to insight@amss.org.au.

Closing date for applications is Sunday October 14th. Successful applicants will be announced at the Insight AGM on Wednesday October 17th.

AMSS AGM
A big congratulations to Chris Wong as incoming President and to all those elected into the 2008 committee. To those who were not so fortunate to be 'official' committee members, we will need all of your help to run a super AMSS in 2008 - stay involved: MedCamp, Skullduggery, Functions, Sports, MedRevue…the list goes on, we need you.

President – Chris Wong
Vice President – Adam Nelson
Sponsorship – Andrew Shepherd
MBO – Mark Hassall
Treasurer – Amy Schirmer
Secretary – Jenna Chiu

AMA(SA) – Rick Fielke
AMSA Snr – Ross Roberts-Thomson
AMSA Jnr – Sean Jolly
O&M – Paroma Sarkar
Rural – Claire Frauenfelder
Pre-Clinical Coordinator – Katie Reid
Clinical Coordinator – Mike Smith
Senior Education – Dan Foley
Junior Education – Andrew Vanlint
Philanthropy – Rob Olver
Publications – Sam Whitehouse & Maddie Trott
Sports – Simon Jackson, Amy Harding & Matt Hauser
Education Forum Convenor – John Tillet
IT Officer – Kian Lim
Women’s Officer – Chloe Ey
Men’s Officer – Tom Crowhurst
Historian – Ed Gibson
Photographer – Aaron Stevenson, Rexson Tse, Dan Chanisheff
AUSS Co-Chair – Tom Cundy & Dan Chanisheff

Education Forums
The AMSS Education Forums are about to get under way again after the mid year break!

Come and join us each Wednesday evening throughout the month of August at 5:30pm in the Florey Lecture Theatre. Brilliant Doctors and Professors, passionate about sharing their knowledge will undoubtedly proove captivating, we promise that you will emerge glowing with the intelligent aura of a learned student.

For more information on upcoming lectures and past lecture notes, follow the Education link over on the left. Or click here!

Want to win $1000 cash?
Why not create a poster and enter the National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Student Research Poster Convention!

This year AMSA Convention will host this competition designed to showcase the best in medical student research. The competition will be judged by Professor Chris Baggoley, the Chief Medical Officer of the South Australian Department of Health. 1 st prize is $1000 cash and 2nd prize is a 1 year subscription to the New England Journal of Medicine. You don't have to be a convention delegate to enter this exciting comp. So go on, check out the AMSA convention website for more details, or click here.

AMSS MEMBERSHIP
Sign up for 2007 AMSS Membership and collect your new blue keyring and free AMSS A2 Planner.  Heaps of new benefits and services to come. 

AMSS Membership entitles you to a host of benefits, including a free AMSS keyring which doubles as a membership benefits card that gets you discounts to a wide range of Adelaide and North Adelaide businesses (see here) including discounts on Medical Textbooks from Ramsays Bookstore; discounts on tickets to Med Ball and other AMSS events; access to our password-protected photo gallery and regular email updates.

Sign up at the AMSS Office.

ANZAME Student Prizes
Every year, ANZAME awards prizes to students for research and development in medical education.  Winners of the student prizes will be invited to present their work at the ANZAME 2007 "Linking Learners and Leaders" Conference in Canberra.  For more information and details on how to apply, please read the attached letter. (*.pdf 40kb)

AMSS POLOS ON SALE
The fabulously fashionable navy blue AMSS polo shirts are AVAILABLE.
For only $30, why not invest in a little piece of AMSS memorabilia?!
To place an order, simply email Caz at vicepresident@amss.org.au or call her on 0418 359 053.
Click here for more details, such as sizing.

Click here for more details, such as sizing. (*.pdf, 130kb)

NEW PERKS FINANCIAL WEBSITE
It's finally here !!! The website is now up and running for students to access using the following link:

http://medical.perks.com.au

The login details are as follows:

Username: AMSS
Password: medical

Find information on Centrelink, Youth Allowance, HECS, Tax and Salary Sacrifice!

PERK'S EDUCATIONAL EVENING
The presentation from Perk's Education Evening can be downloaded here. (*.ppt, 93kb)

AMSA AMEX Card
Want an AMSA AMEX card... find out how here.

PHOTO SUBMISSIONS
If you have photos you would like to share from any AMSS events, please feel free to drop them off at the AMSS Office in the Eleanor Harrald building. If no one is present, just slide it under the door anytime.

CLINICAL RAH LOCKERS
If you would like a Clinical locker, please contact Kat on 0402004141 to make arrangements.
Alternatively Anne Purdy will be available in the AMSS office on: