AMSA 2023 Internship Guide

Congratulations! The future is yours
AMA (QLD)
Firstly, and most importantly, welcome to the profession. You are entering at an
unprecedented and uncertain time. COVID-19 disrupted studies and exams,
practical placements and opportunities to socialise and network at conferences
and seminars, and created instant experts who think five minutes on Google
outweighs your years of study. COVID will continue to affect your training years
with new strains and outbreaks seemingly inevitable, and doctors, nurses and all
healthcare workers on the frontline in this pandemic.
So congratulations – you have made it through the pandemic and are about to
start the next phase of your lives in what I genuinely believe is the most challenging
and rewarding of professions. I love being a doctor. You will love being a doctor. It is
a profession of unlimited opportunity and immense satisfaction.
The effort you’ve already put in to get to this stage is significant and, as you
continue to train on the job, there is much work awaiting you. As those years come
along, I hope that you will look to AMA Queensland as your support, your advocate
and your resource.
Your studies have given you skills, experiences, friends and networks that will stay
with you throughout life. They will be your foundation. However, you will continue
learning and building newer and bigger networks. That is the nature of medicine.
AMA Queensland is a crucial part of your bigger network.
We understand the challenges ahead of you as you start your working life as a
doctor – career progression, certainty of training, appropriate industrial
arrangements, safe working conditions and