Australian Medical Council

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The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is a national standards advisory body for medical education and training.

Its mission statement is:

"To promote and protect public health and safety by ensuring a safe and competent workforce distributed across Australia to meet community needs."

Within Australia it:

  • Accredits Australian and New Zealand medical schools and medical courses
  • Accredits Australian/Australasian programs of specialist medical training
  • Advises on the recognition of medical specialties and sub-specialties
  • Assesses overseas trained medical doctors who wish to practise medicine in Australia
  • Advises State and Territory Medical Boards on uniform approaches to the registration of medical practitioners and maintains a national network of State and Territory medical registers
  • Advises the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council on the registration of doctors

On its website it includes a practice MCQ exam that anybody may complete to get an indication of if they meet the required to practice medicine in Australia.


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