Wellbeing
Our wellbeing programs offer support to doctors and medical students, helping you maintain your health and wellbeing through pressure-filled careers.
Our wellbeing programs offer support to doctors and medical students, helping you maintain your health and wellbeing through pressure-filled careers.
Do you feel you need to talk but are not sure who to approach? Perhaps it is a sensitive or confidential matter. As doctors, we are under increasing pressure in the workplace. We help others every day yet are the last to seek help for ourselves.
The AMA Victoria Peer Support Service provides you with a listening colleague who understands the pressures of medicine.
For anonymous and confidential support call 1300 853 338 (for the cost of a local call).
Talk anonymously and confidentially with a medical colleague by phone for support for a range of issues, 8am - 10pm every day of the year. 1300 853 338
A free, confidential 24/7 service for doctors and medical students with health concerns like stress, mental health or substance use issues. Call 1300 330 543.
Offering AMAVIC members confidential, ongoing help from trained medical practitioners. Call (03) 9270 8722, 8.30am - 5pm, Monday to Friday.
The Peer Visitor Program aims to link retired elderly doctors who may be isolated or living in a residential care facility with a volunteer visitor who is also a medical practitioner.
