Annual Report 2011 - ACEM

BOARD OF EDUCATION
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Accreditation
Committee
This last year has seen the
Accreditation Committee remain
busy undertaking an increasing
number of inspections, whilst also
continuing to work towards making
the accreditation process easier to
navigate for hospitals, emergency
departments and other health services.
With respect to the structure of
the Committee, we welcomed
Christopher Duncan as the new
Trainee Representative and Andre
Vanzyl. I would like to thank Andrew
Perry for his time and contribution
to the Committee as the previous
Trainee Representative.
The Committee with the aid of
regional censors, deputy censors,
DEMTs and Fellows completed
28 emergency department inspections
and 16 special skills term inspections
in the last 12 months. There are
currently 114 emergency departments
accredited for training and 71 special
skills terms available for trainees
across Australasia. The Committee
would like to thank all Fellows who
have provided their time to serve in
accreditation inspection teams.
From an administrative perspective,
the Committee formalised new
criteria for the position of the DEMT
within departments and developed
guidelines for a number of special
skills terms to create consistency for
hospitals and health services applying
for accreditation and for trainees
entering these posts. The Committee
has also started the move toward
implementing an electronic Hospital
Information Questionnaire that will
tie in with the College’s database and
enable enhanced collation of data
concerning emergency departments
across Australia and New Zealand.
Finally, I would like to express sincere
appreciation to Kirsty Grove, Sarah
Smith and Marie Mucha within the
College offi ce for their considerable
efforts in facilitating the work of
the Committee.
James Collier, Chair
Continuing Professional
Development Committee
(CPD)
The MOPS Committee has completed
its name change to the CPD
Committee to bring our program
into line with the majority of
Australasian medical colleges and
with the new Medical Board of
Australia terminology.
Much of our activity over the last
12 months has been to ensure we
understood the requirements of the
new National Registration Scheme
in Australia, whilst ensuring that
any changes introduced would not
adversely affect our New Zealandbased
or international Fellows.
In summary, it is now a requirement
for re-registration in Australia, as it
has been in New Zealand for some
time, for Fellows to be compliant with
a specialty-specifi c CPD program.
Additionally in Australia, but not in
New Zealand, it is a requirement that
any Fellow registered to practice in
more than one specialty has an active
CPD program for each specialty.
Compliance by Fellows for the
2010-2011 year is 97% as at
20 September 2011.
In addition, we have an increasing
role in provision of CPD for nonspecialist
doctors practising in
emergency medicine. In many parts
of both Australia and New Zealand
non-specialist doctors make up a
substantial portion of our workforce
and, with the completion of the
fi rst EM Certifi cate program and
introduction of this program going
forward, we see this aspect of the
CPD Committee’s work expanding.
Looking forward, over the next 18
months there will be major revisions
to the CPD program to align it with
the new training curriculum
to ensure continuity of education
and development going forward
from Fellowship.
Kevin Humphrey, Chair
Skills Maintenance Question
Subcommittee
The hard work of the Skills
Maintenance Question Subcommittee
has provided an excellent ongoing
opportunity for CPD development,
as well as generating some friendly
debate and review. As all the Fellows
working on this Subcommittee are
colleagues and volunteers it is worth
remembering that constructive
debate is most helpful in resolving any
perceived issues with the questions.
Fellows’ feedback to these questions
has been most helpful in developing
future questions and processes.
Alan Broomhead, Chair
ACME Monitoring
Subcommittee
The College’s Advanced Complex
Medical Emergencies (ACME) Course
has continued to be popular for
FACEMs and senior trainees during
the 2010-2011 year.
Five ACME courses were run during
this time, two at St Vincent’s Hospital
Melbourne Medical Education
Department, and one each at
Southern Health Skills and Simulation
Centre, Queensland Health Clinical
Skills Development Centre and
the Australian Centre for Health
Innovation at the Alfred Hospital.
A total of 53 participants attended
these courses.
Interest from New Zealand and
Western Australia Faculty in running
ACME continues to grow. The fi rst
WA ACME courses (participants and
facilitators) were run at Edith Cowan
University in Perth in July 2011, while
plans are underway to run ACME in
Auckland in early 2012.
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