Welcome to the first issue of Your ED, ACEM’s new quarterly magazine. We are thrilled to present this edition, filled with stories from emergency departments across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.
Waiting rooms are full, ambulances are ramped and emergency department staff are experiencing burnout.
The national peak bodies for psychiatrists and emergency physicians have joined forces to call on the South Australian Government to find a systemic solution to the significant waiting periods experienced by people presenting to emergency departments across Adelaide
Two of Australasia’s top scoring emergency physicians were jointly awarded the coveted Buchanan Prize last month for achieving the highest scores in the College’s Fellowship Clinical Examinations.
Sobering new data released by ACEM reveals the scale of alcohol-related harm and violence in emergency departments – and its negative impacts on the patients, staff and carers within them.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine expresses sadness and offers deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of former College President, Associate Professor Joseph Epstein, following his passing overnight.
FACEM Dr Mya Cubitt speaks glowingly of the women in her early life.
The peak body for emergency medicine in Australia says solutions to fix a struggling Victorian public hospital system need to be more sophisticated than just focusing on time-based targets.
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ACEM has again supported #crazysocks4docs, a day to encourage conversations about mental health and help reduce the stigma for doctors experiencing mental illness.