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The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has welcomed a strong focus on mental health from Australian governments amid concerns over the mounting and compounding toll of COVID-19.
Geriatric emergency medicine – a niche group but one that is growing.
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.
ACEM is pleased to announce that Dr Chase Schultz-Swarthfigure has been awarded the Joseph Epstein prize and congratulates him on his achievement.
As ED physicians we devote our lives to providing health care for people experiencing urgent and life-threatening medical emergencies. Yet more and more demand for our services means we've reached the point where our whole health system has become completely overwhelmed, leading to soaring levels of violence and aggression in the ED.
Congratulations to FACEMs Dr Harvey Hunt and Dr Bryan Walpole, both recognised in the 2019 Australia Day Honours List.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has welcomed the release of the masterplan for the next stages of the ongoing redevelopment of the Royal Hobart Hospital, saying the arrangements bode well for the delivery of high quality emergency health care.
A severe lack of staffed mental health beds in the top end of the Northern Territory is placing immense pressures on emergency departments and forcing staff to use last-resort treatments, such as heavy sedation requiring intubation, for people experiencing severe mental illness.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) is pleased to announce that a FACEM-led trial has been named as a joint winner of the 2021 ACTA Trial of the Year Award for a landmark study that showed that a ‘hands off’ approach is best to treat a collapsed lung.