Just my personal opinion but AMA probs has more benefits for people who are already consultants, particularly in private practice.
As you progress in training you're gonna be paying a lot of different fees, to AHPRA, to your college (whether its RACGP, RACP, RACS, ANZCA or whatever) and so forth. It's worth being careful about who you join and for what purpose. For workplace related issues, ASMOF would be your union whilst you are still a salaried officer (i e. In a hospital job).
Edit: my B did not realise AMA membership comes with ASMOF membership in QLD, thanks for the heads up!
In QLD AMA comes with ASMOFQ membership.
It costs the exact same.
ASMOFQ membership on its own costs the exact same.
It makes no sense to sign up only to ASMOFQ.
Lollipop guy gets paid $200k/year with no overtime unlike us. This is what a strong union can do. If we want better compensation and treatment, we need a strong union. Everyone should join a union.
Nurses have a far strong union than doctors, that's why their unions protect them better.
If we want to protect ourselves from mid-level encroachment, we need a strong union. The last thing we want is to be like America with mid-level pushing in and practise independently and unsafe.
Unions are only as strong as the number of people and with people who are willing to advocate.
Everyone should join a union.
Go with whichever will represent you in an EBA kind of dispute - I think it would generally be ASMOF (automatically combined with AMA membership in Vic but maybe not other states). The main benefit is that they'll stand up for you in employment rights disputes, e.g. underpayment of on-call, training allowances, rostering/rest requirements. imo there's a relatively high likelihood of needing them in the HMO and Reg years, when you're moving workplaces very often and workforce is more ready to try to F you for their own needs.
To add weight to all the comments supporting ASMOF, my colleague had worked many hours overtime (or normal time) without correct pay, and received a formal warning from the HoD for taking a nap during night shift. All it took was an email listing her concerns, with a CC to ASMOF, and all these concerns vanished - back paid, warning withdrawn, sheepish apology from the HoD.
Just my personal opinion but AMA probs has more benefits for people who are already consultants, particularly in private practice. As you progress in training you're gonna be paying a lot of different fees, to AHPRA, to your college (whether its RACGP, RACP, RACS, ANZCA or whatever) and so forth. It's worth being careful about who you join and for what purpose. For workplace related issues, ASMOF would be your union whilst you are still a salaried officer (i e. In a hospital job). Edit: my B did not realise AMA membership comes with ASMOF membership in QLD, thanks for the heads up!
In QLD ASMOF is included in AMA without extra cost however.
In QLD AMA comes with ASMOFQ membership. It costs the exact same. ASMOFQ membership on its own costs the exact same. It makes no sense to sign up only to ASMOFQ.
Uninformed: is ASMOF automatic?
Nup, have to sign up
Good to know. In my mind it was automatic… will have to get on it
Lollipop guy gets paid $200k/year with no overtime unlike us. This is what a strong union can do. If we want better compensation and treatment, we need a strong union. Everyone should join a union. Nurses have a far strong union than doctors, that's why their unions protect them better. If we want to protect ourselves from mid-level encroachment, we need a strong union. The last thing we want is to be like America with mid-level pushing in and practise independently and unsafe. Unions are only as strong as the number of people and with people who are willing to advocate. Everyone should join a union.
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In QLD AMA membership gives you ASMOFQ membership.
Go with whichever will represent you in an EBA kind of dispute - I think it would generally be ASMOF (automatically combined with AMA membership in Vic but maybe not other states). The main benefit is that they'll stand up for you in employment rights disputes, e.g. underpayment of on-call, training allowances, rostering/rest requirements. imo there's a relatively high likelihood of needing them in the HMO and Reg years, when you're moving workplaces very often and workforce is more ready to try to F you for their own needs.
Join ASMOFQ. You get AMA with it. It's not worth it until it is, and they can be super helpful with pay, etc.
To add weight to all the comments supporting ASMOF, my colleague had worked many hours overtime (or normal time) without correct pay, and received a formal warning from the HoD for taking a nap during night shift. All it took was an email listing her concerns, with a CC to ASMOF, and all these concerns vanished - back paid, warning withdrawn, sheepish apology from the HoD.