The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is a national standards advisory body for medical education and training.
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."
Within Australia it:
- Accredits Australian and New Zealand medical schools and medical courses
- Accredits Australian/Australasian programs of specialist medical training
- Advises on the recognition of medical specialties and sub-specialties
- Assesses overseas trained medical doctors who wish to practise medicine in Australia
- Advises State and Territory Medical Boards on uniform approaches to the registration of medical practitioners and maintains a national network of State and Territory medical registers
- Advises the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council on the registration of doctors
On its website it includes a practice MCQ exam that anybody may complete to get an indication of if they meet the required to practice medicine in Australia.