Overworked doctors are demanding greater funding and resources to improve staffing levels and hospital facilities in some of the country's most under-serviced areas.
The AMA's 2025 Rural Health Issues Survey Report finds that doctors want to work in the bush, however, they cannot do it by themselves and need infrastructure and support.
AMA President Dr Danielle McMullen said the survey highlights the long-held concerns of rural doctors about the lack of staffing in rural hospitals and inadequate facilities.
"We have got recent data...the uptick in general practice over the past couple of years has been in rural areas," she said on ABC Radio National .
"We have actually seen more interest in rural general practice that we have in metro, so that shows doctors do want to work in the bush, but we have got to be able to support them to do that.
"They can't go out there - we have got issues as basic as accommodation and childcare come up in frequently in our surveys.
"It's really hard to go work in a regional town if you don't have a roof over your head, a school for your kids and a job for your spouse, and those sorts of issues are really important to cover as well."
Dr McMullen said it was high time for governments to stop placing remote Australia in the "too hard basket" and to prioritise healthcare issues in rural areas.
She said the AMA was pleased to see both major parties commit to invest in more GPs and rural generalists training places during the election campaign and the AMA would not allow this issue to fall off the radar.
The survey report proposes a range of measures to strengthen rural and remote healthcare, including establishing an independent national health workforce planning agency, which was scrapped in 2014, which had created a data and strategy vacuum.
