Workforce and Training

Leads Medical Deans’ work advocating for the development of a medical workforce aligned to the needs of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand communities. Its role is to: 

• Provide a forum for discussing issues and sharing ideas to build the medical workforce we need where we need them.
• Guide the development of proposals and action-oriented recommendations for policies and initiatives that are likely to deliver the graduate, junior doctor, and specialist medical workforce we need, where we need them 
• Advise on and recommend actions to be undertaken by Medical Deans to support our positions 
• Work with and across Medical Deans’ committees and communities of practice to inform and support their contribution to progressing the recommendations developed 
• Lead the development of submissions, opinion pieces, articles and other material relevant to the medical and broader health workforce