Australian Medical Council

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The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is the Australian 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

[edit] See also

List of medical schools in Australia

[edit] External links

• Australian Medical Council
• Practice MCQ exam that anybody may complete to get an indication of if they meet the standards required to practice medicine in Australia.

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