How to get involved

Everyone is welcome!

We’d love to see you at the monthly meetings. You can even just visit one of our meetings without joining the committee. Just email JMSA@nh.org.au to be invited.

Every year in January we hold the Annual General Meeting of the preceding clinical year and the new executive committee is voted in. In February there is a special meeting later in the month than usual to allow the new doctors to settle in. We then hold nominations for the general committee. Please see the Terms of Reference for full details.

The General Committee consists of:

Non-portfolio holders (General Committee Members)

General committee members free to join sub-committee task groups throughout the year

Portfolio holders

Social Officers

  • organise social events
  • liaise with other hospital RMO Societies for joint events

Sponsorship officers

  • organise sponsored lunches
  • seek to obtain sponsorship for events

Education officers

  • liaise with the Medical Education Unit re: Intern & HMO teaching
  • sit as junior medical staff representatives on the Committee of Medical Education
  • advocate for junior medical staff for ongoing CPD
  • organise educational opportunities for medical students and junior medical staff

Welfare officers

  • provide support for junior medical officers e.g. struggling interns
  • organise wellbeing events/sessions/programs
  • liaise with relevant persons/units regarding rostering, etc.

IT/Promotions Officer

  • liaise with and assist the IT working group
  • attend and liaise with the Medtasker working group
  • seek other opportunities to ensure the JMO perspective is included in the implementation of NH IT projects
  • provide a regular bulletin
  • maintain the JMSA website and Facebook page

Residential quarters officers

  • manage service and running requirements of ressies
  • ensure ressies is kept tidy
  • investigate renovation opportunities for ressies

Environmental and Community Outreach (ECO) Officer

  • liaise with the Northern Health Environmental Officer
  • investigate and implement independent opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of junior doctors at the Northern Health
  • investigate and implement local council, business opportunities and Northern Health opportunities to achieve social good

IMG Officers

  • Represent the interests of IMG JMOs at NH
  • Encourage engagement of IMG JMOs with JMSA social events
  • Organise IMG specific education sessions with support of Medical Education Unit

General Stream Representative

  • provide a first point of call for workforce issues relating to doctors employed in the general stream
  • feedback information about the health of the general stream to JMSA meetings

Surgical Stream Representative

  • provide a first point of call for workforce issues relating to doctors employed in the surgical stream
  • feedback information about the health of the surgical stream to JMSA meetings

Medical Stream Representative

  • provide a first point of call for workforce issues relating to doctors employed in the medical stream
  • feedback information about the health of the medical stream to JMSA meetings

Critical Care Stream Representative

  • provide a first point of call for workforce issues relating to doctors employed in the critical care stream
  • feedback information about the health of the critical care stream to JMSA meetings