The Hospital Skills Program: a professional development program for non-specialist doctors in New South Wales

To the Editor: We refer to the article by Leslie and colleagues1 and seek to clarify some comments regarding emergency medicine in New South Wales.

Correspondence: Alana.Killen@acem.org.au

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1. Leslie SD, Davy P, Boyd M, et al. The Hospital Skills Program: a professional development program for non-specialist doctors in New South Wales. Med J Aust 2012; 197: 208-211. <MJA full text>
2. Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Specialist emergency medicine workforce and training activities: 2011. Melbourne: ACEM, 2012. http://www.acem.org.au/media/ACEM_Workforce_and_Training_Report_2011_V1.pdf (accessed Sep 2012).
3. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian hospital statistics 2010–11. Canberra: AIHW, 2012. (AIHW Cat. No. HSE 117; Health Services Series No. 43.)
4. Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Guidelines on constructing an emergency medicine medical workforce. Melbourne: ACEM, 2008. http://www.acem.org.au/media/policies_and_guidelines/G23_Constr_Workforce.pdf (accessed Sep 2012).

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