Early bird registration open!
Early bird registration is now open for the ACEM Regional, Rural and Remote Emergency Medicine Conference 2027, held in Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania from Sunday 18 to Tuesday 20 July 2027.
This year's theme, Under Southern Skies, celebrates the connection and resilience of regional, rural and remote (RRR) emergency clinicians, with sessions exploring the ideas lighting the way in rural emergency care.
Visit the website to view the program outline and plan your conference leave for 2027.
Call for abstracts open!
We are pleased to invite a variety of submission types. When putting your content forward, you may select one of the following categories:
- Scientific Paper
- Case Study
- Literature Review
- System Change Review
- Personal Story
- Alternate Format
Abstracts Close: 22 February 2027
Abstract Outcome Notification: 19 March 2027
Key dates
- Sunday 18 July – Pre-Meeting Workshops & Welcome Reception
- Monday 19 July – Plenary, Concurrent Sessions, Exhibition & Gala Event
- Tuesday 20 July – Plenary, Concurrent Sessions & Exhibition
Under Southern Skies - Lighting the way in rural emergency care
The darkness of the night sky is not empty; it is layered with depth, perspective, and possibility. Rural emergency medicine carries that same quiet depth. Time spent practicing under our vast southern skies teaches clinicians not only about medicine itself, but also about responsibility, humility, and human connection within the communities they serve.
Rural emergency medicine is illuminated by the quiet brilliance of clinicians scattered across ever changing landscapes. Individually, each town, hospital, or practitioner appears isolated and yet when linked together through shared experience and mutual support, they form something larger and more recognisable. They create a constellation of emergency care networks extending across vast distances.
Stories passed between clinicians become lines drawn between the stars. There are moments of challenge, humour, fatigue, courage, and compassion that create a shared identity within rural medicine. No clinician truly works alone. We are part of a wider pattern that guides, supports, and strengthens the whole.
The night sky reminds us that even in the most remote places there is light, connection, and wonder — and that rural emergency medicine, at its best, helps communities find their way through darkness toward something steadier, brighter, and more enduring.
Join us under the stars in Hobart for RRR27.
Dr Karly Field
Working Group Chair
ACEM Regional, Rural, and Remote Emergency Medicine Conference 2027