The Adelaide University Surgical Society (AUSS) is an educational body that offers free membership to those studying medicine at the University of Adelaide. It holds a unique nationwide status as being the first and strongest society of its kind that caters specifically to those interested in a career in surgery. Our members range from those with a keen hunger to further their surgical knowledge to those with a burning desire to be Australia’s next generation of surgeons. With recent changes to the surgical education and training program, varied specialty options and constant advances in the field of surgery, the AUSS serves to ensure its members are informed, represented, educated and best prepared to pursue a career in surgery.

Who are we?
Our membership base in 2010 boasts over 500 students from the University of Adelaide Medical School, and with the invitation to many of our key events extending to Flinders University medical students, junior doctors and surgical trainees at all major South Australian teaching hospitals, the AUSS provides services and initiatives to a wide audience. The society is represented via an elected committee of 17 like-minded and enthusiastic pre-clinical and clinical students. We are affiliated with the South Australian office of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS SA), their trainees association (RACSTA), and the Adelaide Medical Students Society (AMSS).