Resources and External Reports

The Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA) has been very active in promoting mental health and wellbeing issues in the last few years particularly.  In association with the NZ association (NZMSA) they developed the first “Keeping your grass greener” guide.  This guide has recently been updated and is available on the AMSA Mental Health site. However, … Read more

National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students Broad surveys of medical students and doctors continue to show high levels of psychological distress. Often this is based on small local surveys, but is also supported by large scale and diverse surveys such as this one conducted by beyondblue in Australia, based on thousands of responses.  The … Read more

Work time regulations have the potential to have an important impact on work-life balance and wellbeing in medical education and graduate training.  However, work-time is only one factor in a complex system. The 2012 report by Morrow, Burford, Carter and Illing gives a good overview of the issues of trying to implement an initiative into … Read more

Keeping Your Grass Greener, the wellbeing guide for medical students is a collaboration between New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) and the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) made in 2011 to assist medical students through the challenges of medical school.  Download your copy here. Also, see the NZMSA Keeping your grass greener video and also, the NZMSA … Read more