The College's vision for reconciliation addresses the inequities in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The College is progressing a strategy to achieve equity for Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand.
ACEM seeks to continually improve the level of patient care delivered at emergency departments in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
ACEM has committed to two key action plans that will help enact meaningful cultural change in the College and in emergency departments.
Global Emergency Care (GEC), integrates emergency care with the field of global health incorporating clinical service provision, capacity building and health systems strengthening for time-sensitive healthcare. It includes development activities as well as aspects of disaster health, humanitarian assistance and surge response.
The National Program aims to address some of the big challenges facing emergency medical care across Australia, including improving the quality and distribution of the future emergency medicine workforce. It includes a range of projects, facilitated by ACEM and funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health’s Specialist Training Program
Networks are virtual communities of practice that enable members with a special interest to connect and share. Network members are active in building vibrant communities, led by their Executive.
Aims to understand the issues impacting on emergency medicine and to evaluate our education and training programs. We also coordinate ACEM's clinical trials and epidemiology networks.
Emergency department staffing must allow for the delivery of high-quality patient care.
A breakdown of the Scholarships, Awards, Grants and Honours available to members and trainees of the College.
Ultrasound is an important tool in Emergency Medicine. This page is a repository for key ACEM ultrasound documents, and links to various ultrasound resources for Clinical Leads in ED Ultrasound, members and trainees.
This library contains all ACEM standards as well as selected submissions made to other organisations, College reports, and other tools.
We acknowledge the COVID-19 situation is evolving, often rapidly. As such, this webpage will be updated regularly to reflect the most current information available. We encourage you to visit this webpage regularly to obtain the latest available COVID-19 information as it relates to College activity
Everyone has the right to timely, safe and quality emergency care. ACEM is committed to working with members, trainees and wider stakeholders to focus on the needs of regional, rural and remote communities.
The Advanced and Complex Medical Emergencies (ACME) course for emergency clinicians offers the opportunity to practice clinical “on the floor” management of complex emergency medicine (EM) scenarios in a high-fidelity simulation environment.
On 30 August 2023 – the year the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine marked the 40th anniversary of its foundation – the College convened a summit to start conversations about the role and scope of emergency medicine – now, and into the future.
