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ACEM Annual Report 2011 14 BOARD OF EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORTS (continued) It was decided that the learning and assessment would be largely based in the workplace with both summative and formative components. The College engaged the Australian Institute for Clinical Education (AICE) to develop the online learning and assessment modules, and the working group provided the curriculum framework and collaborated in module development and fi nalisation. In order to enrol in and complete the EM Certifi cate, the participants must be at least PGY 3 level and complete six months supervised practice in an approved ED under the supervision of a FACEM supervisor. They are also required to complete an ELS Course. In order to enrol in and complete the EM Diploma, the participants must have completed the EM Certifi cate (or equivalent) and complete a further 12 months of supervised training in an approved ED as well as either six months anaesthetics training or three months anaesthetics and three months intensive care training. They are also required to complete either an EMST or APLS Course. A supervisors’ course was developed by the Director of Education in order to provide an overview of adult learning principles, workplacebased assessment, application of the assessment tools and the skills to apply these in the workplace environment. The pilot EM Certifi cate Course commenced in 2010 with 14 participants. At the request of Council, the College commissioned an evaluation of the EM Certifi cate by the Health Workforce Education and Assessment Research Team, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. This was completed in August 2011 with a very positive assessment and strong support for the continuing roll-out of the EMC with ‘ongoing improvements over time’. The curriculum for the EM Diploma is being fi nalised at the time of writing this report and it is planned that the fi rst Diploma course will commence in early 2012. The development of this educational initiative by the College has fi lled an obvious gap in training and education for the large section of the EM workforce which previously had limited access to training under FACEM supervision. This has been recognised by the Commonwealth Government in the form of signifi cant fi nancial support to assist in the provision of appropriate training and supervision to this section of the medical workforce, to deliver improved emergency care to the Australian community. I would like to thank the members of the College staff who have provided invaluable support in the development of this important initiative: Alana Killen, Katharine Ebbs, Mary Lawson and Helen Kaminski. I would also like to thank the members of the working group (and now the Committee) who have spent many hours of their valuable time in the development of the curricula: Shane Curran, Bronwyn Pierce, Liz Mowatt, Sally McCarthy, Paul Spillane, Andrew Bezzina, Andrew Jan, Brendon Smith, Kees Nydam, Eric Van Puymbroeck, Simon Chu, Stephen Gourley, Konrad Blackman, Yuresh Naidoo, James Smyth, Victoria Brazil, Thomas Chan, Craig Wallace, Jennifer Williams and Wayne Hazell. Tony Joseph, Chair Primary Examination Committee (PEC) The Primary Examination strode bravely into the 21st century this year when, for the fi rst time, we ran the MCQ section of the exam electronically at centres in every state, mainland territory and two centres in New Zealand. Extensive prior work was undertaken by the College staff in cooperation with Cliftons, the company hosting the exam, which ensured a smooth transition with minimal issues. My thanks go to the staff for this work. Candidates are now selectively invited to the oral exams, which are held in a single venue about six weeks after the MCQs. This break allows trainees to concentrate on viva practise prior to sitting the orals and feedback from examiners confi rms that the candidate presentations were of a higher standard. The selective invitation also allows for a more effi cient and streamlined examination as a whole. ACEM is the fi rst of the specialty colleges to run online exams and should be congratulated on leading the way. The TARWG has recommended changes to the PE. Individual subject MCQs will remain, but the oral examination will consist of a number of ‘combined’ vivas, where candidates will be examined in areas of each subject based upon a more clinical scenario. Work will begin in 2012 on this transition. Two workshops will be held in 2011 with work concentrating on exam setting, and improving the question database. The PEC is also working towards formal standard setting of the MCQ exams via its standard setting group. My thanks go to the executive and membership of the PEC, as well as the College staff for their ongoing dedication and hard work. Two members of the College staff deserve special mention. Dee Reynolds has been principally responsible for the PE for the last 10 years, and for most of that time has virtually singlehandedly ensured that the examination ran smoothly. With the College’s restructure she is now responsible for CPD. I would like to personally acknowledge and thank Dee for her huge contribution. We really couldn’t have run the exam without her. My gratitude also goes to Hydie Pallier, who has now taken on responsibility for the PE and has administered the last two exams with aplomb. David Lightfoot, Chair
48th Primary Examination 2010/2 The Joseph Epstein Prize was awarded to Thomas Georgeson. The following candidates have passed: Isaac Adewumi, Muhammad Akbar, Gabriel Akra, Christopher Alcock, George Allen, Claire Allerton, Daniel Anderson, Nicholas Annesley, Malcolm Anto, Maya Aoude, Caitlin Appleby, Melanie Armitage, Zoe Bamber, Aman Bamra, Noor Bari, Dirk Bass, David Bertoni, Steven Broad, Andrew Brown, Cindy Bullock, Jaswinder Buttar, Freddy Chafota, Deanne Chiu, Christopher Cole, Lucy Coulter, Timothy Cowan, Rosalind Crombie, Julia De Boos, Mawanana De Silva, Alec Dearden, Peter Dewing, David Dixon, Clare Doherty, Fiona Duncan, Rosamond Dwyer, Lucy Edwards, Charles Elliott, Mary Estrada, Suzan Fox, Philip Gartland, Thomas Georgeson, Robin Glover, Sridhar Gouravaram, Haider Hamed, Una Harrington, Joseph Hewitt, Belinda Hibble, Melody Hiew, Daniel Honneyman, Laura Hutchinson, Natasha Hutton, Suneth Jayasekara, Emmanouele Karpathakis, Rajasutharsan Kathirgamanathan, Julia Kelly, Jung-Hyun Kim, Alexander Kochi, Saleel Krishnan, Felicia Kwok, Richard Lane, Rhulameh Latona, Cherry Lau, Jacques Loubser, Eleanor Loughhead, Jane Lown, Stephen Luke, Sara MacKenzie, Alex Mackey, Hughes Makoni, Ena Maleckas, Yusuf Mamoojee, Pethidia Mango, Dawn Martin, Abhishek Mitra, Cara Moore, Terence Murray, Mstafa Najem, Una Nic Ionmhain, Seema Nimesh, Ruth Parsell, Christopher Partyka, Siegfried Perez, Norman Petersen, Soo Phang, Hsu Phua, Shweta Priyadarshini, Christine Quigley, Claudiu Radeanu, Paramenthiran Ramanathan, Kannan Ramanathan, Michaele Rawson, Alasdhair Reid, Craig Richards, Robert Roe, Mahesh Sainani, Anand Senthi, Alireza Shangarffam, Kirsty Short, Neeraj Shrestha, Rhea Sicat, Anna Singleton, Tara Smith, Zafar Smith, Michelle Snape, Matthew Spotswood, Ahmad Srour, Rosemary Stratford, Hannah Sundqvist, Sara Taher, Babak Tajvidi, Soon Kim Tan, Paul Tan, Christopher Tang, Lucy Taylor, Sumitra Thambirajah, Jonathan Thomson, Sheryl Tweddell, Andrew Underhill, Laura Valea, Lawrence Vilvarajah, Catherine Vogler, Simon Walker, Milena Wilke, Siew Wong, Kathryn Woolfi eld, Min-Hua Wu, Alex Yartsev. Examiners: Bob Dunn, Janet Talbot-Stern, David Eddey, Philip Richardson, Richard Harrod, Leo Marneros, Steve Dunjey, Andrew Singer, Garry Wilkes, Eric Van Puymbroeck, Chris Gavaghan, Ruth Hew, Drew Richardson, Richard Mulcahy, Irene Rotenko, Michael Ragg, Bill Croker, Shalini Arunanthy, Betty Chan, Tony Joseph, Sheila Bryan, Mark Miller, John Maguire, David Symmons, Greg McDonald, Yuresh Naidoo, Bernard Foley, Diana Egerton-Warburton, Bhavani Peddinti, Chanh Huynh, Matthew Chu, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Priestley, Belinda Leigh, Lindsay Murray, Jennie Martin, Diane King, Tonia Nicholson, Craig Hore, Nadi Pandithage, George Braitberg, Ian Rogers, Pam Rosengarten, Graeme Thomson, Trevor Jackson, David Mountain, Paul Pielage, Mark Smith, Mark Webb. 49th Primary Examination 2011/1 The Joseph Epstein Prize was awarded to Andrew Dobinson and Liam Hannon. Successful Candidates: Abdulaziz Alrabiah, Ashwini Amaratunga, Amanda Appleton, Rory Ardlie, Emad Atia, Andrew Backay, Motaz Bahageel, Haidar Balasem, Ziad Basyouny, Amie Beattie, Jessie Biles, Sebastiaan Blank, Santiago Cegarra Garcia, Andrew Challen, Shimonti Chatterjee, Heng Cheok, David Clancy, Sarah Clarke, John D’Arcy, Johannes Davel, Owen Davies, James Dent, Andrew Dobinson, Suzanne Doherty, Tracey-Ann D’Souza, Christopher Duncan, Michael Edmonds, Mary- Ann Elliott, Danielle Feigin, Ciaran Ferguson, Barrie Field, Mark Fisher, Shailesh Ganasegaram, Vinay Gangathimmaiah, Mark Garcia, Philip Gaudin, Bahareh Ghadak, Rachael Gill, Atul Goel, Cade Grima, Liam Hannon, Pradeep Hanumantha Rao, Caroline Heggie, Joanne Henry, Arsalan Hermiz, Karina Hochholzer, Adam Hollingworth, Sanna Huhtamaki, Anna Ings, Michael Jacob, Simon Jones, Laura Joyce, Sunita Kantavil, Helen Kanter, John Kao, Daniel Khamoudes, Riaz Khan, Darren Khodaverdi, Julie Kiel, Jin Liao, Danny Lim, Deborah Maher, Caroline Mann, Claire Manning, Anit Manudhane, Michelle McNamara, Sarah Mikhail, Aidan Murray, Terry Nash, Pushpa Nettle, Michael Noonan, Brian O’Connell, Adesoji Olabode, Christopher Pazaratz, Su Pham, Guy Porter, Kevin Power, Khuram Qazi, Anirban Rashid, Mohammed Rayyan, Claire Roche, Hannah Rotherham, Mihir Roy, Anand Sadashiva, Diya Saleh, Rajbir Sandha, Anil Seshadri, Xiaofeng Shen, Yousuf Sheriff, Yii Wern Siow, Hannah Smith, Mthuthuzeli Sobantu, Sandeep Somanathan, Danielle Spratt, Phillippa Stuart, Ilse Swart, Andrew Tagg, Loana Tanielu, Yogendra Tikare, Cadressen Villepin, Robert Wakuluk, Persia Waldock, Amanda Wallis, Elizabeth Walsh, Simon Walsh, Christopher Wignall. Examiners: Neil Banham, Diana Egerton Warburton, Philip Aplin, James Collier, Andrew Singer, Leo Marneros, Anna Holdgate, Sally McCarthy, James Taylor, Scott Pearson, Garry Wilkes, Shalini Arunanthy, Matthew Chu, Bill Croker, Bernard Foley, Debra O’Brien, Jennifer Brookes, Eric Van Puymbroeck, Lindsay Murray, Ruth Hew, Tony Joseph, Bhavani Peddinti, Simon Brown, Bob Dunn, John Maguire, Chan Huynh, George Braitberg, Yuresh Naidoo, Sheila Bryan, Mark Webb, Drew Richardson, David Symmons, GraemeThomson, David Lewis-Driver, Philip Richardson, Wayne Hazell, Philip Richardson, Adam Chan, Michael Ragg, Tony Lawler, Craig Hore, Mark Smith, Debbie Leach, Jennie Martin, Trevor Jackson, Herman Chua, Jennie Davidson, Barry Gunn, Sean Lawrence, Ian Summers. ACEM Annual Report 2011 15
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