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The AMA (WA) Annual Awards 2022 nominations are now open.

Nominate a colleague for the Hippocrates Award AMA (WA) or the Junior Doctor of the Year Award (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award). This is your chance to celebrate the outstanding work of the people you work with every day. Please spread the word and encourage others to nominate.The awards will be presented at MEDBALL22 on Saturday, 23 July 2022 as part of MEDCON22. Please nominate by clicking on the link below:

Awards | AMA (WA) Also known as the Camille Michener Legacy Award, this award recognises the significant and outstanding contribution of a Western Australian junior doctor in the areas of teaching and education, leadership and advocacy, and doctors’ wellbeing and community service. Nominations now open.

The Junior Doctor of the Year Award (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award) acknowledges the outstanding efforts of Junior Doctors and their contributions to medicine in WA. The winner of the Award will receive a sum of $3,000 for their professional development. Nominations close on Friday, 3 June at 5.30pm. To find out more or to nominate a colleague or friend please click on the link below:

Junior Doctor of the Year Award | AMA (WA) The Award recognises the outstanding contribution of our Doctors in Training to the medical profession & the community. Nominations are now closed.

Yaaasss we had the best time at the Pride parade!! Let’s make every day Pride day 🎉🎉🎉🎉

If you’re curious about the origins of Pride, read on! Pride day/month is not only an awesome day to celebrate and continue to fight for the rights of all LGBTIQA+ people, but an opportunity to recognise LGBTIQA+ history.

Pride began as a yearly commemoration of the Stonewall Riots. These riots happened in the early hours of June 28th 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the patrons rebelled. At the time, the situation wasn’t good for LGBTIQA+ people. In America (where these riots happened) gay s*x was illegal, as was cross-dressing, and LGBTIQA+ people were widely discriminated against in many ways. The situation was pretty similar is Australia, and Pride protests started popping up here in the 70s on various dates. Fortunately, since then, things have improved a lot for LGBTIQA+ people, but there’s still a long way to go.

The first 🌈 rainbow flag 🌈 was made for Pride in 1978 for the San Francisco parade. The first version had eight stripes rather than the six it has today, and each stripe was intended to represent an aspect of the gay identity:
💞pink for s*xuality
💋red for life
🍊orange for healing
🐥yellow for sunlight
🍀green for nature
🐬turquoise for art
🚙indigo for harmony
🍆violet for spirit

We're always so proud of our volunteers and their achievements and recently, Layaal Mikhael was finalist in the UWA Student Volunteer of the Year at the UWA Guild Volunteering Awards for her work with Dr YES and Teach Learn Grow :)

Congratulations to the amazing Layaal Mikhael for the incredible contribution you make as president of Teach Learn Grow UWA and with Dr YES and many more organisations. Layaal was a finalist for the 2019 UWA Student Volunteer of the Year.

Fifteen Dr YES volunteers are now qualified caregivers who can provide su***de first aid to people at risk.
“ASIST’s Pathway for Assisting Life (PAL) model will sit alongside crucial skills such as DRSABCDE as tools that I never want to be without. Just as much as managing a physical first aid, this training empowers us to save lives and feel confident doing so.”
We would like to thank the facilitators Anita Nodwell and Simone Dayer for their expertise, wisdom and guidance through this challenging space. Local ASIST training can be found at http://www.livingworks.com.au

The AMA’s Dr Yes program involves medical students volunteering to run education sessions for High Schools. This weekend the Dr Yes team in WA completed the ASIST training and had a ball! Well done all, and to trainers Anita Nodwell and Simone Dayer. Fantastic!

// ATTENTION ALL CURRENT VOLUNTEERS //

We’re planning a FULLY DARDY communications upskilling on Thursday the 30th of May! As well as learning some valuable stuff that will improve your presentation skills, you’ll also get FREE DINNER courtesy of Malaysian Gourmet!

More information can be found on the event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2142892742462527/
If for whatever reason you can't see the event, give us a message!

// GET AROUND IT GANG //

CALLING EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED TRAINING NIGHTS!
We're always trying to make the nights more fun, so we've created some surveys to gauge your opinions.
They should only take about three minutes!

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Thanks so much :D

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Listen to Dr YES on ABC Radio talking about s*xting!

www.abc.net.au

Are you an assured med/med student?

Want to volunteer to chat with high school students?

Want to meet other med students from different years and unis?

Want some free pizza?

Come along to Dr YES training nights! Dr YES is a “fun, frank, & fresh” program (get around the branding pls) run by AMA WA in which medical students talk to urban and rural high school students about s*xual health, mental health and alcohol & other drugs. Training nights are March 6, 8, 13 & 15. All the info is on the Facebook event, so check it out and come along!! Even if you’ve volunteered with us before, you need to come training nights!

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Did I mention there will be FREE PIZZA?

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