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24 Nov 2024

Vale 2024/2025

We recognise and celebrate the lives of our members and trainees who have passed, and thank those who contributed to this page. The College pays tribute to honour their memory and their life, commemorating the medical care they gave and the immense difference they made in their communities.

19 Nov 2024

FACEM Dr Peter Allely appointed ACEM President-Elect

FACEM Dr Peter Allely has been appointed as President-Elect of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College).

17 Nov 2024

ACEM launches the Fund EMET campaign

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) has today launched the ‘Fund EMET’ campaign as a call to action for the Federal Government to fund Emergency Medicine Education and Training (EMET) beyond 2025.

07 Nov 2024

ACEM congratulates Labor on forming government in the ACT

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) congratulates Andrew Barr and the Labor Party on forming government following the ACT election. The College looks forward to working together to ensure safer emergency departments (EDs) for all clinicians, healthcare workers and patients.

31 Oct 2024

ACEM responds to the 2024 Queensland election result

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) congratulates David Crisafulli and the Liberal National Party (LNP) on their election win and looks forward to working together to ensure better and safer emergency departments (EDs) for all of Queensland.

21 Oct 2024

ACEM statement on family and domestic violence and abuse

ACEM is committed to ensuring that emergency departments are places of refuge and support for victim-survivors of family and domestic violence and abuse.

18 Oct 2024

Queensland Election 2024: ACEM responds to health announcements

Queensland’s emergency doctors have been pleased to hear that the state’s health crisis is high on all parties’ agendas, right across the political spectrum, for the upcoming state election.

17 Oct 2024

ACT Election 2024: ACEM calls for focus on hospital overcrowding

ACEM encourages all sides of politics to support its five research-based key electoral priority areas.

11 Oct 2024

Queensland Election 2024: Emergency departments can’t wait any longer

Waiting rooms are full, ambulances are ramped and emergency department staff are experiencing burnout.

08 Oct 2024

Vale FACEM Dr Edward Brentnall

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine expresses sadness and offers deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of FACEM Dr Edward Brentnall, following his passing on 1 October.