The Emergency Medicine Workshop

This one-day, in-person workshop has been designed as an immersive, hands-on experience aimed at empowering you with invaluable life-saving knowledge and practical skills.

Registration

Date

August 9, 2024

Mode

Face-to-face

Format

One-day workshop

Accreditations:

The Workshop is approved for 10 CPD hours.

OVERVIEW

The Emergency Medicine Workshop is a one day face to face hands-on practical course empowering you with invaluable life-saving knowledge and experience.

It has been designed to enhance your online learning through an engaging, practical exercises that provide essential life-saving knowledge and hands-on experience.

You will navigate a variety of scenarios with interactive simulations, case discussions, and skills stations, all guided by our expert faculty. Learn from emergency physicians and nurse practitioners who will share their experiences and clinical insights across disciplines and structures.

Elevate your education with this unique opportunity to gain invaluable skills and expertise.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is relevant to:

Junior Medical Officers (PGY2+)
General Practitioners
Urgent Care Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners
RIPRN/RIPERN’s

DATES

August 9, 2024

LOCATION

Conference Rooms Monash University, SPHPM 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

AFTER COMPLETION OF THE COURSE YOU WILL HAVE GAINED COMPETENCE IN:

Basic & Advanced Life Support*

This session will include teaching and assessment of the approach to Basic Life Support of the unresponsive patient. Followed by teaching and practice of Advanced Life Support skills.

Would Management

The wound management session aims to cover the assessment and management of wounds in the emergency department. This will include a practical session with the opportunity for participants to practice a variety of primary closure techniques.

Fractures

The fracture session will provide participants with the opportunity to learn and practice Bier's Block (IV regional anesthesia), manipulation of distal radius fractures, and a variety of plastering techniques.

*The workshop certificate of completion can be submitted to RACGP for BLS certification.

REGISTRATION FEES

Workshop: $700 + GST*

Limited places available. Applies to full-fee paying students only.

*The fee includes morning tea and light lunch

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

In very rare cases, due to clinical demand or other unforeseen, unavoidable reasons, courses may need to be cancelled. In this instance registrants will be advised urgently and will receive a full refund for registration fees.
If you are no longer able to attend this course you may transfer the fees to the next available date.
All transfer requests must be made in writing.

REFUND POLICY

Cancellation more than 30 days before the event: 70% refund.
Cancellation less than 30 days: no refund.
Cancellation must be in writing.

Faculty

Dr David McCreary

Dr David McCreary is an Emergency Physician at the Alfred Hospital and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University. He completed his undergraduate training in the UK at the University of Liverpool and completed his MSc in Trauma Science from Queen Mary’s University, London. David trained in Emergency Medicine in a variety of centres in UK and Australia and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Dr Binula Wickramarachchi

Dr Binula Wickramarachchi is an Emergency Physician at the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre and an Adjunct Lecturer at Monash University. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Auckland in 2011, prior to making the move across the Tasman for his emergency specialist training. His clinical experience includes emergency, critical care and retrieval medicine in various sites across Melbourne and Darwin.

Claire Lobb

Claire has more than 20 years of emergency nursing experience. She has been working at The Alfred Hospital Emergency & Trauma Centre since 2014 and became endorsed as a Nurse Practitioner in 2015.
She has been overseeing the N.P. candidate program for the past five years, providing mentorship and support to trainees as they work towards endorsement. Claire is now involved in the expansion and redevelopment of the program, licensing it to external EDs throughout Victoria interstate and supporting them as they establish their own professional development program for both NP candidates and endorsed NPs. Claire has a passion for education, providing teaching for medical and nursing staff. She has been involved with the Emergency Medicine course since early 2023 developing content and facilitating workshops for the face-to-face training day.