Australian Medical Council

The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent national standards and examination body. Its mission statement is: To promote and protect public health and safety by ensuring a safe and competent workforce distributed across Australia to meet community needs.

The AMC:

• advises and makes recommendations to the State and Territory Medical Boards in relation to:
  • the accreditation of medical schools and courses leading to basic medical qualifications;
  • the accreditation of Australian and Australasian providers of specialist medical training and of their specialist medical training and professional development programs;
  • the assessment of suitability for practice in Australia of overseas trained medical practitioners;
  • uniform approaches to registration.
• maintains a national compendium of the medical registers of all Australian States and Territories;
• provides advice to the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council on matters relating to the registration of medical practitioners;
• provides advice to the Department and the States and Territories on the recognition of medical specialties.

You can gather more more information about the role of the AMC from their website.