A former Dunedin medical student, Dr Xaviour Walker, is driving an international effort to set up a global network for junior doctors.
Dr Walker, now an internal medicine resident in Boston, has been helping in the three year project to set up a junior doctors committee of the associates members of the World Medical Association (WMA).
The committee would provide a forum for junior doctors worldwide to meet and to discuss issues facing their level of the health sector, he said today.
There was a gap in international representation of junior doctors, with no world body of junior doctors as well as the majority of countries without any junior doctor committees.
The new organisation would be for registered doctors in their early postgraduate years who were yet to complete their specialist training.
It would enable junior doctors to discuss issues facing them and would provide a junior doctors' perspective on health and healthcare, said Dr Walker.
"We want the network to be as inclusive as possible."
These junior doctors could help policy development on issues such as medical education, well-being and social media.
The World Medical Association is an independent confederation of national medical associations from 97 countries and represents more than nine million doctor in seeking the highest possible standards of medical care, ethics, and education.
