We’re here for you.

Studying medicine can be an incredibly stressful experience. Balancing classes, study, work, and other commitments is difficult, and finding free time to relax, wind down, and take care of yourself is important!

UNEMSA is here to support all students if they need help. Below you can learn more about our support resources, wellbeing initiatives, and links to other useful resources to support you!

If you can’t find what you’re after here, feel free to contact our committee!

Introducing UNEMSA Wellbeing Wednesday!

Med isn’t very easy. To help your whole being during your time in the course, UNEMSA holds Wellbeing Wednesdays every Wednesday fortnight.

WW Challenges are so easy to be a part of! With your participation, you have a chance to win from a range of snack vouchers, academic subscriptions, your own hobby shark tank funding, or a donation under your name to a cause that matters.

We’re also open to suggestions on how to make UNEMSA and the JMP a more inclusive, supportive community! So shoot us a message on the UNEMSA Wellbeing Facebook Group, or on the Instagram account @wellbeing.jpg!

Check out some of our entrants in 2018:

The JMP Student Support Guide

Studying medicine can be tough and sometimes we need some extra help. Whilst we are studying hard to find out how to look after others, we sometimes forget that first we need to look after ourselves.

JMP students have no shortage of support resources through our universities, AMSA, MedSocs and many others besides. But when things get challenging, the last thing we feel like doing is trawling through policy documents and scrolling through websites looking for them.

We have worked closely with the Dean of Medicine and JMP staff to bring you a guide to navigating the many support systems available to you, based on your personal needs and written in your language. In this guide you’ll find important student support policies boiled down to a ‘need-to-know’ basis, and wellbeing services classified according to what may suit you and your individual needs. We hope that this document can come to your aid when you need it most.

 

Useful Resources

 
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AMSA Mental Health

The AMSA Mental Health Campaign aims to reduce stigma of mental health, improve education about mental health, and help tackle the burden of mental health within our community. 

AMSA Mental Health runs initiatives for #CrazySocks4Docs, RUOK Day, and their own publication, Humans of Medicine.

To stay up to date with AMSA Mental Health, check them out on social media:

Head to health

Head to Health can help you find digital mental health services from some of Australia’s most trusted mental health organisations.

Provided by the Australian Department of Health, Head to Health brings together apps, online programs, online forums, and phone services, as well as a range of digital information resources.

Whether you are trying to improve your own sense of wellbeing, looking for help with something that is bothering you, or helping someone you care about—Head to Health is a good place to start.

Visit their website for more information and resources: https://headtohealth.gov.au/

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Crisis Support

If you feel like you’re drowning and need urgent help, the university, local, and national mental health support services are readily accessible and available to you.

If you require urgent medical or safety assistance, please dial 000.

  • UNE After-Hours Crisis Support Line: 1300 661 927 or text 0488 884 169

  • Lifeline: 13 11 14

  • Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636

  • eHeadspace: 1800 650 890

  • Suicide Callback Service: 1300 659 467

  • NSW Mental Health Referral Line: 1800 011 511

  • Armidale Hospital: (02) 6776 9622

LGBTQ+ Inclusion + Support

UNEMSA is committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in medical and tertiary education. We welcome all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity, and celebrate diversity, individuality, and equality.

UNEMSA is a proud member of ACON’s Welcome Here Project, and the med common room is a designated safe space at the university for all LGBTQ+ people.

We support ACON’s IDAHOBIT and Wear It Purple Days each year. To find out more about our pride initiatives, please contact our Wellbeing Officer.

LGBTQ+ Support Resources

There are a number of LGBTQ+ support services available both nationwide and specifically to residents of NSW.

  • ACON is a global leader in community health, inclusion and HIV responses for people of diverse sexualities and genders.

  • Minus18 provides peer support, runs events, and provides resources for LGBTQ+ youth.

  • Twenty10 incorporating GLCS NSW works with people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse, intersex, questioning, queer, asexual and more, LGBTIQA+ people and others of diverse genders and sexualities, their families and communities.

  • QLife provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.