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An Expanded Nursing Workshop for #DevEM2018 Fiji

Professor Kate Curtis and her team return to DevelopingEM with an expanded Nursing workshop for local delegates. This year your donations and registrations are helping DevelopingEM to host a full day Nursing Workshop exclusively for Fijian and regional delegates. The first half of the day focusses on the HIRAID emergency nursing assessment framework with the afternoon […]

Nick Taylor with more cardiology gems at DevelopingEM 2018 Fiji

The winner of the all-around dude award in Colombo, Nick Taylor, returns to DevelopingEM. He’s dragging himself away from our nations’ capital Canberra to give us all the years’ best cardiology update. Nick is a self confessed ECG nerd and even if you think you know some heart stuff he will show that there’s even […]

David Wallace returns as part of our Adult EM and Critical Care track

David returns from Pittsburgh as part of Brian Wright’s Adult EM and Critical Care track. David has helped us out over the last few years and its great to have him back again. His presentations definitely meet the brief of aiming information at the senior clinician and giving them something they can take back to […]

Meet our Track Leads for 2018

Following the release of our complete program last week we would like to re-introduce our main track leads. We’re lucky to have our all our leads from 2016 returning to lead the core components of DevelopingEM. April (Paediatrics), Nat (Global and Regional EM), Brian (Adult EM), and Peter and Gerard (Trauma) all return after helping […]

Accreditation for DevelopingEM 2018 Fiji

DevelopingEM is now accredited for CME/CPD through the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM).  For each hour of conference and workshop education ACEM allocates 1 CME/CPD point. The program is now accredited for 33 points for the plenary from December 3-6, 2018 and 9 points for the NAEMSP Workshop on Sunday, December 2, 2018. North American, British and European […]

DevelopingEM partners with the Pacific Community (SPC)

The SPC is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, proudly supporting development throughout the region since its establishment under the Canberra Agreement in 1947. It is an international development organisation owned and governed by the 26 country and territory members stretching from Papua New Guinea, in the West, to the Pitcairn […]

ACEM and CENA support the Colombo Declaration

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) have both in the last week formally come out to support the Colombo Declaration. It is truly amazing that our local EM colleges have supported this important Declaration. Our next efforts to further spread the word will focus on involving […]

EM in Fiji

  In 2014 during our conference in Salvador, Brazil, Anne Creaton from Melbourne explained how EM was developing as a specialty in Fiji. Check out her presentation here. Since then Anne and many other local and international clinicians have made incredible strides in a specialty tailor made for the demands of acute medicine in the […]