A staff specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH), Dr Moore oversees the RBWH Thursday Education program, which is also available to a large number of hospitals across Queensland and New South Wales. He coordinates weekly journal club meetings of the medical education special interest group, is the Workplace-based Assessment (WBA) Coordinator and Mentoring Program Lead, and is heavily involved in the RBWH Departmental Fellowship Exam Preparation Program.
His ACEM commitments include being involved with the WBA Panel, Standard Setting Panel and he is also an Examiner.
These activities, along with his professional diligence, conscientious approach and thoughtful manner, saw him receive the 2017 Teaching Excellence Award. Last year’s recipients also included Dr Richard Forbes and Dr Victor Lee.
The Teaching Excellence Award recognises distinguished and extensive service in emergency medicine teaching and learning by ACEM Fellows. The Award is presented by the Council of Education at the ACEM College Ceremony.
2018 Teaching Excellence Award
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A team effort
Dr Moore believed his nomination “was an acknowledgement of our department and how we value education, and the strong culture of education that exists within the team”.
“Receiving the award was amazing, very humbling,” Dr Moore said.
And why is he so committed to medical education?
“The emergency medicine community has always been really engaged with education and training, supporting each other. It is such a team sport, and I have always been interested in the education and assessment side of things,” Dr Moore said.
“Getting involved in the College is really important to help guide the education and training of the next generation of emergency physicians.
“The College has made a really great effort in improving its education and training processes, and you can’t expect them to do it without contributing something yourself.”
The importance of education
Dr Moore said education in emergency medicine was important, “because we are such a broad field of medicine that you can’t possibly think that just because you’ve got your Fellowship you are going to stay up to date”.
“You need to be undergoing ongoing learning for the rest of your career, which is really exciting,” Dr Moore said. “It is such a dynamic field, you’ve got so many good educators within our field whether it is at a conference, or a blog post, a podcast, but also at a local level on the ED floor; it all keeps you motivated, interested.”
And why does he love emergency medicine?
“The team work is so important and you always have the opportunity to work with great people, enthusiastic registrars who are always teaching us things as well as us teaching them things,” he said.
“I guess most importantly it is that sense of doing a really important job, helping all patients who come through the door regardless of what their problem is, where they’re from, their background. We are the people who are going to help them, and that is what we as the emergency medicine team can all feel proud of.”