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ACEM welcomes the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) emergency department care report 2020-21. The data in the report verifies what ACEM, and other health bodies, have been repeatedly saying: the healthcare system in Australia is no longer fit for purpose.
ACEM has welcomed Labor Tasmania’s pledge to support the training of more regional doctors in emergency care skills.
A clear concern in emergency departments across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand is not just the health and well-being of patients, but the health and well-being of emergency medicine physicians and trainees.
Honorary Fellowship recognises outstanding contributions and service of individuals in the promotion and advancement of the speciality of emergency medicine, with such contributions being above and beyond that ordinarily given by medical practitioners in the delivery of clinical emergency care.
This Statement makes a commitment that ACEM will demanding health equity for Māori and to achieve equitable access to and outcome in emergency care. The Statement is underpinned by ACEM's vision and strategy for Māori health, Te Rautaki Manaaki Mana, Excellence in Emergency Care for Māori 2022-2025 (The Manaaki Mana Strategy).
Outside of the Visiting Emergency Medicine Registrar Program (VERMP) as an advanced trainee in EM, there are opportunities for independently sourced volunteering in Global Health/Global Emergency Care (GEC) as part of an accredited special skills term.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) holds grave concerns about the impact of a ‘blitz’ of elective surgeries on Tasmania’s struggling emergency health system.
We care for one another, for patients and for other health professionals. We practise in ways that are honest, authentic and upright, and uphold the guiding principles and standards of emergency medicine.
Breaking Point: An Urgent Call to Action on Emergency Department Safety summarises a snapshot survey investigating the prevalence and impact of violence in emergency departments which was sent to the Directors of Emergency Medicine at all 131 ACEM-accredited EDs.