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Make an online donation today to support the ACEM  Global Emergency Care Committee (GECCO) and Global Emergency Care Team to build vital capacity in emergency care in the Indo-Pacific Region via specialist education, training and research.
 
Donations over $2 are tax-deductible and can be made via the ACEM Foundation.
 
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ACEM partners with both Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand volunteer agencies to support locally-led capacity development in a number of LMICs and there are various volunteering opportunities available for emergency care professionals such as emergency nurse educators, ACEM trainees and FACEMs.

Contact the GEC Desk ([email protected]) to express your interest in volunteering in GEC and joining our mailing list.

The Global Emergency Care Committee currently has representatives in over 30 locations. CLRs act as a point of linkage between local providers of EC and ACEM, to facilitate discussions and opportunities to support Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) countries in delivering safe and effective EC. On average our CLRs have a minimum five-year engagement in the county they liaise with or are diaspora.
 
If you are interested in becoming a Country Liason Representative, please contact the GEC Desk ([email protected]).

ACEM and the Australian Volunteers Program (an Australian Government initiative), are now working in partnership to support the Visiting Emergency Medical Registrar Program (VEMRP).
 
If you are an ACEM trainee and are late stage TS2-TS4, are PGY5 or above, have some paediatric and anaesthetic/Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience, an Australian citizen/permanent resident and have the following qualities:

• A desire to contribute to Global Emergency Care (GEC) capacity building and engagement in local led development.
• Commitment to team-work, coaching, and mentoring others.
• Awareness and sensitivity of cross-cultural settings.
• Patience, tolerance and flexibility.
• Ability to cope with cultural isolation and a different standard of living.
• A preparedness to work with limited resources within a challenging environment

You may be eligible to join this exciting Program.
 
Rotations under the VEMRP can be accredited towards your ACEM training (Individual training circumstance permitting).
 
As the VEMR, you will:

• Work as a senior registrar to provide clinical education.
• Demonstrate clinical EM leadership.
• Be involved in clinical support, teaching and supervision, quality improvement, community health, and team-building activities.
• Support Emergency Care (EC) systems, process and policy development at the hospital level.
• Experience the value of two-way learning. 

Assignments are currently available in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Timor-Leste. 

These roles are supported roles under the Australian Volunteers Program and managed by AVI. 
For more information please contact [email protected] 

As with all training terms, planning a special skills term in GEC well in advance gives you the best chance at a supported, safe and successfully accredited term. There are many possible global health work environments and a pool of GEC FACEMs happy to provide advice and mentoring.

Great mentors are FACEMs who know you, have worked with you and understand your capabilities, limitations and interests. If you do not currently have a mentor with GEC experience, the GEC Desk can put you in contact with potential supervisors and mentors for GEC terms.

For further information please refer to the GEC Special Skills Placement Guidelines or contact the GEC Desk at [email protected].

To learn more about partnership opportunities with ACEM please contact the GEC desk.