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NZMSA Media Statement: Medical Workforce Retention Projections
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 5:27 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The Aotearoa medical workforce, like much of the world, is facing a shortage of medical healthcare staff. Any attempt to increase our domestically produced medical workforce requires us to retain the doctors our universities produce. Recent reports ... More >>
NZMSA Stands Against The Proposed Changes To SERPA Legislation
Monday, 4 December 2023, 10:06 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Repeal of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan poses a serious threat to the future of all New Zealanders. The New Zealand Medical Students' Association (NZMSA) calls ... More >>
NZMSA Statement On The PGY1 Position Shortage
Thursday, 8 September 2022, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Aotearoa has been facing an ongoing crisis around understaffing in our healthcare sector. ASMS predicts that almost 3000 more doctors across hospital care and primary care are needed to address the shortages.1 With such a huge issue facing our system ... More >>
NZMSA disappointed by lack of student input
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 10:33 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
New Zealand’s Medical Students are disappointed that a health sector meeting held this week on a new rural training proposal failed to engage with the students who are going to use them. More >>
New Zealand Medical Students Support Ban on Semi-Auto Guns
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 9:22 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
New Zealand Medical Students Support Ban on Semi-Automatic Weapons More >>
NZMSA seeks assurances over new School of Rural Medicine
Monday, 28 August 2017, 7:42 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The New Zealand Government today announced plans to establish a new School of Rural Medicine within the next three years. Given the current maldistribution of doctors in New Zealand away from rural areas, the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association ... More >>
Medical Students support Legal Challenge on Climate Change
Friday, 30 June 2017, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The New Zealand Medical Students Association (NZMSA) supports OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council’s recent press release, and law student, Sarah Thomson’s challenge to the Minister for Climate Change issues. More >>
NZMSA Supports Dr. Lance O’Sullivan: Vaccines Save Lives
Friday, 26 May 2017, 9:27 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) supports Dr. Lance O’Sullivan’s comments that promotion of falsehoods about vaccination results in harm to our children, the most vulnerable members of society. Healthcare providers, such as Dr. O’Sullivan, ... More >>
Hundreds of Medical students call for fossil fuel divestment
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 9:52 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Yesterday, over 100 medical students from the Auckland University Medical Students Association (AUMSA) rallied to call on the University of Auckland to cease investments in coal, oil, and gas companies, to protect public health and reduce the impacts ... More >>
Medical students support patient safe rosters
Thursday, 18 August 2016, 10:36 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Medical students support patient safe rosters The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) supports resident doctors in their call for safer working rosters. Currently resident doctors may work up to 12 days or 7 nights consecutively without ... More >>
TPPA Still Needs an Independent Health Impact Assessment
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 10:48 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
TPPA Still Needs an Independent Health Impact Assessment The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) urges the Government to facilitate an independent Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on the recently agreed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ... More >>
Medical students commend move to extend loan limit
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 5:37 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) welcomes the Minster of Tertiary Education Steven Joyce’s announcement of a student loan extension for post-graduate medical students but warns it still leaves some medical students without government ... More >>
Over 20,000 people support medical students to finish training
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Today the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) supported by Annette King presented a petition with over 20,000 signatures to Parliament urging Minister Steven Joyce to remove the 7-year cap on the Student Loan for medical students. More >>
Medical students encouraged by Surgeon’s apology on bullying
Monday, 14 September 2015, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Medical students are encouraged by Surgeon’s apology on bullying, but calls for more action to combat issue More >>
New Doctors make Economic Sense
Friday, 29 May 2015, 8:18 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Minister Joyce has been touting that we must consider fairness to taxpayers on the student loan issues around medical students. However, New Zealanders must consider the economic impact of not letting new doctors graduate. More >>
New Doctors make Economic Sense
Friday, 29 May 2015, 10:38 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Minister Joyce has been touting that we must consider fairness to taxpayers on the student loan issues around medical students. However, New Zealanders must consider the economic impact of not letting new doctors graduate. More >>
Minister Joyce is Wrong Again
Monday, 25 May 2015, 10:44 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Today Minister Joyce commented on our push to reinstate student loan for postgraduate students in the final year, in some cases, two years of medical school. Minister Joyce’s suggestion was that we use our Trainee Intern Grant to pay for our fees. More >>
Budget Prevents Doctors from Graduating
Sunday, 24 May 2015, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The release of Budget 2015 confirms the fears of medical students with future hopes of joining the medical workforce in New Zealand. They won't have the opportunity to finish their degrees. A Medical degree in New Zealand requires 6 years of study, ... More >>
Operative care needed for NZ homes
Thursday, 21 August 2014, 1:49 pm | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
Medical students can normally be found tucked away in a library, but today they ventured onto the streets to perform an ‘operation’ on a ‘sick’ house, taking their call for improved housing standards to unfamiliar territories. More >>
Future Doctors Concerned About Health Workforce Strategy
Monday, 26 August 2013, 9:24 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) applauds the Government’s commitment of junior doctor jobs for all domestic graduates. President Phillip Chao says “Given that training a doctor costs roughly $400,000 it is essential we continue ... More >>
