Dr YES

Dr YES is an AMA(WA) program taking medical students into metropolitan and rural high schools to have open and frank discussions about the big issues facing youth health – particularly alcohol, drugs and sexual health.

Dr YES helps break down the barriers preventing young people from accessing health care and overcome some of the common misconceptions about doctors.

LATEST NEWS

  • ABC Perth21 Aug 2019 WA hospitals are failing healthy food standards, with Fiona Stanley Hospital among the worst
  • GP Registrar Seminar: Negotiating Terms and Conditions20 Aug 2019 Australian Medical Association (WA), Perth, WA, Australia
  • The insidious rise of corporate pharmacy | AMA WA20 Aug 2019 The Pharmacy Guild has for many decades done an extraordinary job of preventing supermarket operators and other non-pharmacists from owning pharmacies. Its central argument is that restricting ownership to trained pharmacists and placing caps on the number of pharmacies …
  • YFD - Mental Health: Psychosocial Wellbeing19 Aug 2019 Australian Medical Association (WA), Perth, WA, Australia
  • WA Primary Health Alliance18 Aug 2019 A new urgent care service will soon be available to people living in metropolitan Perth, with an 18-month GP Urgent Care Pilot due to start on 10 September.
  • YFD - Mental Health: Diagnosis and Assessment18 Aug 2019 Australian Medical Association (WA), Perth, WA, Australia
  • One-sided Pharmacy review a flawed script for Primary Care | AMA WA18 Aug 2019 You probably think I’m a little strange, but I was browsing the Health Department’s website the night before the report by the Ministerial Expert Panel on Voluntary Assisted Dying was released, and I noticed another report had been quietly posted …
  • The Malady of Medicine | AMA WA16 Aug 2019 It has been an eventful two months at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle Medical School. As I write this, our first and second-year students have been diligently preparing for their mid-semester exams and our third and fourth year students …
  • Working towards change | AMA WA15 Aug 2019 The evidence is now clear – many aspects of medical culture and medical workplaces have been harmful to doctors’ wellness in the past and been too slow to change. Earlier this year in March, the Australasian Doctors’ Health Network …
  • CPR for Practice Staff14 Aug 2019 Australian Medical Association (WA), Perth, WA, Australia
  • Connecting with Country | AMA WA13 Aug 2019  Thanks to the generous support in recent years from the Commonwealth Bank and ongoing sponsorship by MDA National and the WA Department of Health, the Dr YES program has extended its reach to the north of the State.
  • YFD - Social Media and the Internet13 Aug 2019 Australian Medical Association (WA) Perth, WA, Australia
  • Getting into an emergency department could soon be as hard as entering an airport12 Aug 2019 Off the back of shocking violence statistics in hospitals, the WA Health Department is considering looking at introducing airport-style security gates to protect staff. AMA WA weighed in on this su…
  • YFD - Young People, Ethics and the Law12 Aug 2019  Australian Medical Association (WA) Perth, WA, Australia
  • Follow-up on our pre-budget advocacy | AMA WA11 Aug 2019 Advocacy is not just about making demands or having wish lists – it is about results. You do not pay your AMA membership fees to simply have a wish list. I am sure most of you could write one without …