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31 Oct 2019

ACEM welcomes draft Productivity Commission report into mental health

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) welcomes the release of the draft Productivity Commission report into mental health.

31 Oct 2019

ACEM statement on Tasmanian Coronial Inquest media reports

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) acknowledges this week’s deeply distressing media reports from a Tasmanian Coronial Inquest.

29 Oct 2019

Notice on College Ceremony and AGM

Important notice regarding changes to the timing of the College Ceremony and AGM on 17 November 2019

29 Oct 2019

ASM Presents: Aloima Taufilo Teatu

Aloima Taufilo Teatu will present at this year’s ASM. The ACEM Scholar is the first emergency medicine-trained doctor in Tuvalu and will speak on her lived experience of climate change

14 Oct 2019

Joint statement on Medevac laws from college presidents

ACEM President Dr Simon Judkins has joined the presidents of 10 other medical colleges as a co-signatory to the following statement calling on the Australian Parliament to maintain Medevac law.

13 Oct 2019

ASM Presents: Liz Mowatt

FACEM Liz Mowatt has dedicated her career to emergency medicine in rural and remote locations. An avid teacher and student, at this year's ASM she will help to facilitate sessions on rural and remote health and embedding cultural competence in EDs.

11 Oct 2019

ACEM response to news that beds will be ‘mothballed’ across CALHN

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) is deeply disappointed at news that up to 60 hospital beds will be ‘mothballed’ across the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) amid an ongoing ambulance ramping and access block crisis.

09 Oct 2019

ASM Presents: A climate emergency

FACEM Lai Heng Foong will chair a session on climate change at this year's ASM. In the winter issue of Your ED she wrote about how climate change is already having an impact in emergency departments, and how we must act now for climate change.

09 Oct 2019

Equity & cultural safety focus for NZ Emergency Department Conference

As emergency department staff, we have an important role to play in addressing bias, says ACEM President Elect Dr John Bonning.

07 Oct 2019

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine statement

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) acknowledges proceedings lodged in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia by a small number of individuals who continue to feel affected by alleged racial discrimination in the College’s Fellowship Clinical Examination (OSCE).