Volume 206 Issue 1

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Zsuzsoka Kecskes · Imogen Mitchell

As they require the integration of various competencies, EPAs are valid tools for assessing trainees

Olle ten Cate · Stephen Tobin · Marie-Louise Stokes

For my brother

Mitchell Welch

You stir, slowly at ?rst, then all at once

Michelle P Poon

Making urgent decisions is complex: a campaign recognising this has succeeded in raising public awareness

Peter L Thompson · Trevor Shilton

The appropriateness, safety and timeliness of individualised medication plans must be improved

Jennifer H Martin · Jennifer A May

Reducing regional variations in treatment rates for pancreatic cancer requires an inclusive standardised approach and cooperation

Robert C Gandy · Koroush Haghighi

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Nicola Creighton · Richard Walton · David M Roder · Sanchia Aranda · Arthur J Richardson · Neil Merrett · David Currow

A well designed campaign can increase the use of emergency medical services

Ziad Nehme · Peter A Cameron · Muhammad Akram · Harry Patsamanis · Janet E Bray · Ian T Meredith · Karen Smith

Involving pharmacists in preparing medication management plans in the discharge summary reduces the likelihood of errors

Erica Y Tong · Cristina P Roman · Biswadev Mitra · Gary S Yip · Harry Gibbs · Harvey H Newnham · De Villiers Smit · Kirsten Galbraith · Michael J Dooley

Alcohol-related presentations compromise the safety of clinical staff and other patients

Diana Egerton-Warburton · Andrew Gosbell · Angela Wadsworth · Daniel M Fatovich · Drew B Richardson

Given the psychosocial impacts of acne, systemic therapy may be appropriate if topical and general measures have failed

Victoria Rebecca Harris · Alan J Cooper

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Lisa J Elkington · David C Hughes

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Satvinder S Dhaliwal · Timothy A Welborn

In reply

Emily Banks · Rosemary J Korda · Bill Stavreski

In reply

Clara K Chow · Anthony Rodgers

This article, published in the 5 September 2016 issue of the Journal, has been retracted, with the agreement of the authors, because of an analysis error reported to the Journal by the authors that significantly affected the results and conclusion.

Dr Joanna Flynn, chair of the Medical Board of Australia, talks about CPD reform and the vexed question of identifying doctors who are performing below accepted standards

Cate Swannell

A trio of world-leading neuroscientists has joined the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre to “progress research-led treatments for dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases affecting human memory and thinking”. Professor Glenda Halliday, Professor John Hodges and Professor Olivier Piguet bring a significant team of researchers, PhD students and professional staff. Professor Halliday is a specialist in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases, a senior principal research fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council, a past president of the Australian Neuroscience Society and part of the Academy of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Professor Hodges leads a multidisciplinary research group focused on aspects of frontotemporal dementia. He has authored 500 papers on aspects of memory, language and dementia, in addition to six books. Professor Hodges is a former lecturer in behaviour neurology at the University of Cambridge. Professor Piguet is an international expert on cognitive and clinical changes in pathological brain ageing who has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic. His research has recently focused on the biological correlates of deficits in social cognition and memory in frontotemporal dementia and related conditions. “A major reason for joining the University of Sydney is that we are at a critical stage of translating many of our research projects into neurological research clinics with the aims of testing new diagnostic methods and preclinical treatment evaluations,” Professor Halliday said. http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/10/26/three-world-beaters-join-brain-and-mind-centre-to-defeat-dementi.html The Work Injury Screening & Early Intervention (WISE) study consortium, made up of NSW Health, EML, icare and the University of Sydney’s Pain Management Research Institute (PMRI), has been named winner of the Framework and Systems section of the 2016 icare TMF awards. The WISE study, led by Professor Michael Nicholas, evaluated the implementation of an early risk screening and psychosocial management intervention instituted for employees with acute soft tissue injuries within a large hospital network in Australia. The screening used the 10-item Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMPSQ-10) which was administered over the phone by the insurance case manager within the first week of an injured worker taking time off work due to their musculoskeletal injury. Those scoring above the cut-off of C50/100 were offered the opportunity to address their concerns with a nominated psychologist (in addition to usual care by their treating doctor and physical therapist). Any work-related issues identified by the psychologist or workplace return to work coordinator were to be addressed simultaneously at the workplace. While this study has only just been completed, the employer (the NSW State Health Department) has recognised its value (to date the savings have amounted to 22% for the high-risk intervention group over the similar control group, and mean lost work days of 30 vs 56, respectively, over the year following injury) and it is now being implemented as standard practice for all public hospitals in NSW. Planning is underway to change the guidelines covering the early management of injured workers generally across NSW. The final results of the WISE study will be available early in 2017. http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/news/news/2016/icare-tmf-awards.php Professor Perry Bartlett, from the University of Queensland, has been named the 2017 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year, for his work on the human brain, including dementia and depression. Professor Bartlett was the founding director of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute, which he led for 11 years until 2015. He now holds UQ’s Foundation Chair in Molecular Neuroscience. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious CSL Florey Medal for his breakthrough discoveries. Professor Bartlett is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a past NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and ARC Federation Fellow, a past President of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, and a former head of Development and Neurobiology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Professor Bartlett and his team are now working on slowing the progress of dementia by activating stem cells to produce new nerves. https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2016/11/brain-research-leader-queensland%E2%80%99s-senior-australian-of-year Dr Bradley Edwards, from the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences and the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, has been awarded a Heart Foundation 2016 Future Leader Fellowship for his project, “Personalising the treatment of sleep apnoea”. Dr Edwards will investigate the effect of upper airway surgery and mandibular advancement devices on the physiological processes underlying obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). He will also investigate if patients who fail to respond to these treatments can be effectively “rescued” with the addition of oxygen therapy. He is hoping that his research will enable an individualised and effective mechanism-based therapy approach for the many patients whose OSA currently remains untreated, and who remain at great risk of serious cardiovascular complications. Importantly, the tools generated through his work will also be immediately translatable to clinical practice. Dr Edwards’ Fellowship will commence on 1 January 2017. http://www.monash.edu/medicine/news/latest/articles/miccn-researchers-heart-foundation-fellowship-gives-hope-to-sleep-apnoea-sufferers Monash Children’s Hospital trainee Dr Ling San Lau has been awarded a John Monash Scholarship to undertake a Master of Public Health at Columbia University in international child health. A paediatric basic trainee, Dr Lau worked as a senior resident medical officer at Monash Children’s Hospital for 6 months this year in infectious diseases, respiratory medicine, nephrology/rheumatology and endocrinology. Dr Lau will use the $130 000 scholarship to study at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York. Dr Lau has a particular interest in paediatric infectious diseases, including multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and the broader global issue of antimicrobial resistance. http://www.monash.edu/medicine/news/latest/articles/monash-doctor-announced-as-2017-john-monash-scholar Professor Geoff McColl, Head of the Melbourne Medical School and Professor of Medical Education and Training, has been announced as the new Chair of the Medical School Accreditation Committee and Director at the Australian Medical Council – an independent national standards body for medical education and training. In addition to his role as Head of the Melbourne Medical School, Professor McColl continues to practise as a visiting rheumatologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and serves on a number of committees guiding the development of the medical workforce and health of the community. http://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/professor-geoff-mccoll-appointed-as-chair-of-the-australian-medical-councils-medical-school-accreditation-committee

Compiled by Cate

This calendar will be updated each month. If you have an event you would like to add, please include relevant details in an email to cswannell@mja.com.au. The full version of the calendar is available online at www.mja.com.au January 2017 31 Jan-3 Feb 10th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2017), Melbourne VIC February 2-4 The Possums Conference 2017: New Clinical Tools for Early Life Care: Mood, breastfeeds, sleep and crying, Brisbane, QLD 3-6 MRI in Practice, Sydney, NSW 4 Australian Amyloidosis Network, Amyloidosis 2017: A New Era in Diagnosis and Management, Brisbane, QLD 4-5 Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Interest Group Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, QLD 5 Australian Amyloidosis Network, Amyloidosis 2017: A New Era in Diagnosis and Management, Melbourne, VIC 5-7 ARVO – Asia, Brisbane, QLD 6 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TTE, Melbourne, VIC 7-14 Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians ASM: Keeping you Active, Gold Coast, QLD 8-9 Big Data and Analytics Summit: Take control of Your Data, Melbourne, VIC 9-12 21st Advanced Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Workshop 2017 (AAPSW 2017), Melbourne, VIC 10-12 3rd World Congress on Clinical Lipidology 2017, Brisbane, QLD 11 Australian Amyloidosis Network, Amyloidosis 2017: A New Era in Diagnosis and Management, Sydney, NSW 11-12 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Melbourne, VIC 11-12 Abdominal Radiology Group Australia and New Zealand 2017, Darling Harbour, NSW 14-15 Growing a Quality NDIS Workforce, Sydney, NSW 15 Lung Ultrasound, Melbourne, VIC 20-21 Conflict Resolution and Motivation, Rotorua, NZ 21-22 Balancing Performance with Quality In Emergency Departments, Sydney, NSW 23 Research in Routine Diagnostic Laboratory, Darling Harbour, NSW 23-25 26th ASM of the Australasian Brachytherapy Group, Melbourne, VIC 23-26 Australasian Symposium on Ultrasound and Regional Anaesthesia (ASURA) 2017, Noosa, QLD 24-25 Australia and New Zealand Strabismus Society – Squint Club Annual Meeting, Graft, NZ 24-26 Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Pathology Update 2017, Sydney, NSW 24-27 Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 69th ASM 2017, Canberra, ACT March 1 ANZCA Anaphylaxis & CICO Emergency Response Workshop, Frankston, VIC 1-3 ACEM Evidence Review in Emergency Medicine 2017, Wollongong, NSW 2-4 Annual Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Pain Society, Nelson, NZ 2-4 Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery XXVII ASM 2017, Sydney, NSW 2-4 Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Autumn Scientific Meeting 2017, Wellington, NZ 3 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Critical Care Datathon, Melbourne, VIC 3-5 Managing Obstretric Emergencies and Trauma, Wellington, NZ 6-9 Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group 29th ASM, Auckland, NZ 7 19th Annual Meeting on Clinical Trials in Intensive Care, Noosa, QLD 8 Peri-Arrest, Transthoracic Echocardiography, Melbourne, VIC 8-10 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC) Course, Wellington, NZ 8-10 Australian Healthcare Week 2017, Sydney, NSW 10 International Medical Symposium, Melbourne, VIC 11 2017 SPANZA PANNZ Update Meeting, Wellington, NZ 14 The Australian Breastfeeding Association’s 2017 Seminar Series for Health Professionals: Breastfeeding: Positioning for Better Outcomes Plus Online Webinar and Special Australian Showcase Options, Brisbane, QLD 15 The Australian Breastfeeding Association’s 2017 Seminar Series for Health Professionals: Breastfeeding: Positioning for Better Outcomes Plus Online Webinar and Special Australian Showcase Options, Sydney, NSW 15-17 Sydney International Endoscopy Symposium 2017, Incorporating the Westmead Endoscopy Symposium Nurses’ Workshop, Sydney, NSW 16 The Australian Breastfeeding Association's 2017 Seminar Series for Health Professionals: Breastfeeding: positioning for Better Outcomes Plus Online Webinar and Special Australian Showcase Options, Melbourne, VIC 16-18 EMAC (Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises) Course, Melbourne, VIC 18 RACP Rise to the Challenge – Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW 18 The Australian Breastfeeding Association's 2017 Seminar Series for Health Professionals: Breastfeeding: Positioning for Better Outcomes Plus Online Webinar and Special Australian Showcase Options, Perth, WA 18-19 iHeartScan, Melbourne, VIC 20 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TTE, Melbourne, VIC 20-21 Airway Management Beyond BASIC, Frankston, VIC 20-21 New Zealand Simulation Instructors Course (NZSIC), Wellington, NZ 22 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TOE, Melbourne, VIC 23-26 Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 67th ASM: Ingenuity at Work, Adelaide, SA 24 Crisis Management in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Neonatal Resuscitation, Sunshine, VIC 24 Perioperative Ultrasound for all Anaesthetists: The Future Becomes the Present, Melbourne, VIC 24-26 2nd International Conference on Chest, Melbourne, VIC 24-26 International Medicine in Addiction Conference 2017, Sydney, NSW 24-28 International Society of Ocular Oncology Biennial Conference and the RANZCO-NSW ASM, Sydney, NSW 24-28 Australia and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Meetings 2017, Canberra, ACT 25 Trauma Tasmania 2017, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 25-26 Neuroradiology-Brain and Spine Interpretation 2017, Camperdown, NSW 25-26 New Zealand Association of General Surgeons 2017, Palmerston North, NZ 26 Obstetrics and Gynaecology Radiology 2017, Camperdown, NSW 26-28 2017 Queensland AOA ASM, Noosa, QLD 26-29 12th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (LUPUS 2017) and the 7th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity (ACA 2017), Melbourne, VIC 29 A Day With Dan Siegel: The New Frontiers of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Newcastle, NSW 29 Mar-1 Apr Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases ASM 2017, Leura, NSW 31 Mar-1 Apr UroGynaecological Society of Australasia ASM 2017, Melbourne, VIC April 2-5 Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 20th Annual Congress 2017, Canberra, ACT 3 Paediatric Anaesthesia Crisis Management Course (PACMaC), Wellington, NZ 3-7 15th World Congress on Public Health: Voices, Vision, Action, Melbourne, VIC 4-7 LIME Connection VII: The Future of Indigenous Health Education: Leadership, Collaboration, Curriculum, Melbourne, VIC 7-8 2nd International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group Educational Conference: Radiotherapy in Modern Lymphoma Management, Melbourne, VIC 7-9 Spine Society of Australia 28th ASM 2017, Hobart, TAS 8-9 Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, SA 8-10 11th Annual Update in Paediatric Emergencies 2017, Noosa, QLD 9-12 2017 Australian Pain Society 37th ASM, Adelaide, SA 21-23 Trauma 2017 Conference: Bridging the Gaps in Trauma Care, Melbourne, VIC 21-23 Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine 47th ASM 2017, Hobart, TAS 22-23 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Melbourne, VIC 26 ANZCA Approved Anaphylaxis & CICO Emergency Response Workshop, Frankston, VIC 28 Anaesthetic Emergency Responses Workshop (ALS/CICO), Sunshine, VIC 29-30 iHeartScan, Melbourne, VIC 29 Apr-2 May 14th World Rural Health Conference 2017, Cairns, QLD 30 Apr-4 May Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference 2017, Adelaide, SA May 2-5 New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes AGM 2017, Dunedin, NZ 5 Vitiligo Master Class, Sydney, NSW 6-7 21st ASM of the Australasian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group, Melbourne, VIC 6-9 Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Sydney, NSW 7-9 Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand 35th ASM 2017, Brisbane, QLD 8 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TTE, Melbourne, VIC 8-10 RACP Congress 2017: Bringing Specialists Together, sharing knowledge, building skills, Melbourne, VIC 8-12 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 86th Annual Scientific Congress 2017, Adelaide, SA 9-12 Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists 2017, Gold Coast, QLD 10-12 Airway Management SIG Meeting 2017, Brisbane, QLD 10-12 Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine ASM 2017, Rotorua, NZ 12-13 Royal Australian and New Zealand Collage of Ophthalmologists New Zealand Branch ASM 2017, Waitangi, NZ 12-16 Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists ASM 2017, Brisbane, QLD 19-20 Australian Symposium organised by the Falk Foundation: Mucosal Microbiome and Mucosal or Systemic Dysfunction: Mechanisms, Clinical Manifestations and Interventions, Brisbane, QLD 20-21 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Sydney, NSW 20-21 Neurorad 2017, Melbourne, VIC 20-23 Australasian Rheumatology Association and New Zealand Rheumatology Association Joint Scientific Meeting 2017, Auckland, NZ 22-23 Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference 2017, Gold Coast, QLD 24 FUSE Vascular, Melbourne, VIC 26-28 College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand, 2017 ASM: A gut reaction: ICU gastroenterology from beginning to end, Sydney, NSW 28-31 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference 2017, Sydney, NSW 29-30 New Anaesthetic Registrars Crisis Management (NARCM) Course, Wellington, NZ June 1-2 NSW branch of Australian Resuscitation Council and Take Heart: Resus @ the Park, Sydney, NSW 2-4 41st ASM of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology, Darling Harbour, NSW 3-4 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Melbourne, VIC 3-4 EMCORE 2017, Melbourne, VIC 7 Lung Ultrasound, Melbourne, VIC 15-17 Cancer Nurses Society of Australia Annual Congress, Adelaide, SA 19-21 Renal Society of Australasia Annual Conference 2017, Sydney, NSW 20-22 Tinnitus 2017, Melbourne 2017 21 ANZCA Approved Anaphylaxis & CICO Emergency Response Workshop, Frankston, VIC 22-25 Australian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Non-surgical Symposium 2017, Gold Coast, QLD 23 Crisis Management in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Neonatal Resuscitation, Sunshine, VIC 24-25 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Surfers Paradise, QLD 26-27 2017 No More Harm National Conference, Brisbane, QLD 28-30 CSANZ New Zealand ASM 2017, Hamilton, NZ July 1-2 iHeartScan, Melbourne, VIC 6-9 Australia and New Zealand Society of Neuroradiology ASM 2017, Darwin, NT 7-8 2017 Rural SIG Meeting, Broome, WA 11-13 Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia ASM 2017, Port Douglas, QLD 13-15 RANZCO Paediatric Special Interest Group Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW 17-19 12th Asian Obesity Specialists and Endocrinologists Annual Meeting, Melbourne, VIC 20-22 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC), Melbourne, VIC 22-23 Emergency Skills Ultrasound, Melbourne, VIC 23-26 Cardiac Thoracic Vascular and Perfusion SIG Meeting, Queenstown, NZ 23 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TOE, Queenstown, NZ 23 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TTE, Queenstown, NZ 23 Lung Ultrasound, Queenstown, NZ 24-25 17th International Conference and Exhibition on Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology in Health Care, Brisbane, QLD 24-26 8th World Conference on Pharmacology and Toxicology, Melbourne, VIC 26-28 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC) Course, Wellington, NZ 26-29 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Winter Symposium, Rowland Flat, SA 27-30 RNZCGP Conference for General Practice and Quality Symposium, Dunedin, NZ 31 Jul-2 Aug World Congress on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, VIC August 4 Anaesthetic Emergency Responses Workshop (ALS + CICO), Sunshine, VIC 9 Peri-Arrest, Melbourne, VIC 11-13 ACD Rural Dermatology Meeting, Broome, WA 16 ANZCA Approved Anaphylaxis & CICO Emergency Response Workshop, Frankston, VIC 16 FUSE Vascular, Melbourne, VIC 16-19 NZDSI Annual Conference, Queenstown, NZ 19-20 iHeartScan Advanced, Melbourne, VIC 21-25 CT-Acute Medical and Surgical Interpretation 2017, Queenstown, NZ 24 Paediatric Anaesthesia Crisis Management Course (PACMaC), Wellington, NZ 26-27 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Melbourne, VIC September 1 Epworth HealthCare Eighth Obstetrics & Gynaecology Clinical Institute Symposium, Melbourne, VIC 1-2 Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders, Darling Harbour, NSW 1-3 Managing Obstetric Emergencies & Trauma (MOET) Course, Wellington, NZ 6-8 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC) Course, Wellington, NZ 8-10 Joint Neuroanaesthesia and Trauma SIG Meeting, Byron Bay, NSW 9-10 ANZCA/ASA SA NT Burnell Jose Visiting Professionals ASM, Rowland Flat, SA 13-14 Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit: Maximise the Potential of Your Big Data Initiatives, Sydney, NSW 14 RUOK? Day 14-17 Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia 33rd Clinical and Scientific Meeting and NeuroVision Training Weekend, Sydney, NSW 15 Crisis Management in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Neonatal Resuscitation, Sunshine, VIC 16-17 ANZAAG Symposium, Auckland, NZ 27-29 Joint 2017 ACHSM/ACHS Asia-Pacific Congress, Sydney, NSW October 2-4 16th Global Pathologists Annual Meeting, Melbourne, VIC 4 FUSE Vascular, Melbourne, VIC 4-6 Global Alcohol Policy Conference, Melbourne, VIC 7-10 ASA National Scientific Congress 2017, Perth, WA 8-12 AOA 77th ASM and AGM, Adelaide, SA 11-13 42nd Australian and New Zealand ASM in Intensive Care and the 23rd Annual Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Conference: ICU: Thinking outside the flags, Gold Coast, QLD 12-14 EMAC (Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises) Course, Melbourne, VIC 16 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TTE, Melbourne, VIC 16-18 3rd International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Melbourne, VIC 18-21 9th World Congress of Melanoma and 14th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research, Brisbane, QLD 20 Crisis Management in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Neonatal Resuscitation, Sunshine, VIC 21-22 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Sydney, NSW 24-27 Australian Association of Practice Managers National Conference, Perth, WA 26-28 GP17 RACGP Annual conference, Sydney, NSW 26-28 SPANZA 2017 Conference, Perth, WA 28 Epworth HealthCare Seventh Cardiac Sciences Clinical Institute Symposium, Melbourne, VIC 28 Oct-1 Nov 49th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress, Perth, WA November 1-3 10th Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Gold Coast, QLD 1-3 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC) Course, Wellington, NZ 2-4 Perioperative Medicine SIG Congress 2017 8-11 NZ Anaesthesia ASM 2017, Rotorua, NZ 10 Anaesthetic Emergency Responses Workshop (ALS + CICO), Sunshine, VIC 15 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound TOE, Melbourne, VIC 16-18 EMAC (Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises) course, Melbourne, VIC 17-19 National Histology Conference, Hobart, TAS 18-19 iHeartScan, Melbourne, VIC 19-23 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 34th ASM, Sydney, NSW (provisional dates) 20-22 9th International Conference on Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, Melbourne, VIC 20-22 Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017, Melbourne, VIC 20-24 Psychiatry Update 2017, Christchurch, NZ 21-23 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC), Melbourne, VIC 23-26 Asian Pacific Society of Respirology Congress 2017, Sydney, NSW 27-28 New Anaesthetic Registrars Crisis Management (NARCM) Course, Wellington, NZ December 2-3 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound/ECHO Workshop, Melbourne, VIC February 2018 9-10 4th International 4 Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC 23-24 PICET Obstetric Intensive Care Symposium, Adelaide, SA March 2-4 Pathology Update 2018, Sydney, NSW 8-11 APSCVIR 2018, Auckland, NZ April 11-13 2nd International Selection in the Health Professions Conference, Melbourne, VIC May 7-11 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2018 with the ANZ College of Anaesthetists, Sydney, NSW 18-22 Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Gold Coast, QLD October 6-9 ASA National Scientific Congress 2018, Adelaide, SA November 7-10 New Zealand Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting 2018, Auckland, NZ 18-22 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 35th ASM, Perth, WA November 2021 10-13 XIII International Congress of Dermatology, Melbourne, VIC December TBA FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sydney, NSW

Cate Swannell