Your AMSS does more than just organise great events and get you cheap discounts, we also do a lot of work representing the Adelaide University medical student body, both in the media and within the University and Med School. Read about it here.

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE MBBS CURRICULUM REVIEW
May '06 - AMSS MBBS Curriculum Review Submission (*.pdf, 163kb)
October '06 - Comment on the Report of the Review of the MBBS Program University of Adelaide (*.pdf, 82kb)

BANDING POLICY (MAY '06)
AMSS Banding Policy (*.pdf, 52kb)

DRUG AND ALCOHOL POLICY (MARCH '06)
AMSS Drug and Alcohol Policy (*.doc, 20kb)

RURAL CONSCRIPTION POSITION STATEMENT (JULY '06)
AMSS Rural Conscription Position Statement (*.pdf, 45kb)

FIRST YEAR FIRST AID POLICY (AUGUST '05)
AMSS Position Statement: Teaching of First Aid Skills to Medical Students (*.pdf, 81kb)

KEEPING OUR FINGER IN THE PIE (AUGUST '05)
AMSS Representative Involvement with the Adelaide University Union & AUU Affliates (*.pdf, 91kb)
Read about the Adelaide University Union (AUU) Elections here. (*.pdf, 23kb)
Click here to download the ratified policy (*.pdf, 66kb) regarding future relations between the AMSS and the AUU.

READ ALL ABOUT IT- MED SCHOOL SELECTION CRITERIA
There has been a lot of press about the selection criteria for entry into Medicine at The University of Adelaide, culminating in a heated article titled 'School for Dummies'.
Read 'We're no dummies, says medical school' from The Advertiser (20/4).
Read 'Medical school's selection success' from The Advertiser (21/4).
Read research done on medical student selection: 'Increasing the evidence base for selection for undergraduate medicine'. (*.pdf - 99kb)
Read the latest AMSA Press Release: Compassion without Compromise (19/3).
Read other recent newspaper articles here.

HIGHER EDUCATION REFORMS
It is the AMSS’s view that an increase to tuition fees for the degree of Medicine should only be made if there is a corresponding increase in the quality of teaching and education for the students within that degree.

DOMESTIC FULL FEE PAYING PLACES
It is the AMSS’s view that there should be no introduction of domestic full-fee paying places for the degree of Medicine at the University of Adelaide on the basis that this does not allow for equity of access to a degree that has impacts on the provision of essential healthcare to the rest of society.

LOCAL QUOTAS FOR ADELAIDE MEDICAL SCHOOL
At the October '04 AMA(SA) Council Meeting, the issue of whether Adelaide University should impose a quota for local students (about 70%) was raised. Quotas are being proposed as a measure to solve South Australia's Medical Workforce Crisis.
The AMSS Committee has previously voted against the introduction of a quota. We thought that other measures should be taken to address workforce issues.