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
ALM = active learning module
ASM = annual scientific meeting
CPD = continuing professional development
CT = computerised tomography
ECHO/echo = echocardiography
EMAC = effective management of anaesthetic crises
MRI = magnetic resonance imaging
OSCE = objective structured clinical examination
SAT SET = supervisors and trainers for surgical education and training
SEPTEMBER
2–5 Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
3 RANZCR workshop: Patient safety for radiation oncology and radiology, Melbourne, VIC
3–4 ANZCA National Health Education and Training in Simulation Program, Melbourne, VIC
3–4 General Practitioner Education and Training Conference, Brisbane, QLD
4 Mater Mothers Hospital 11th Growth and Developmental Unit Conference: Cerebral palsy: the early years, Brisbane, QLD
4–7 Combined scientific meeting: Imaging and Radiation in Personalised Medicine,
Melbourne, VIC
5–6 Paediatric Society of Queensland ASEM, Brisbane, QLD
6 RACGP workshop: New Fellows: let’s get down to business, Perth, WA
6 RACGP Celebrating general practice Fellowship and Awards Ceremony, Hobart, TAS
6 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Intermediate, Brisbane, QLD
6 RACGP workshop: Skin cancer theory and practice, Melbourne, VIC
6 RACP workshop: Continuing education, Melbourne, VIC
9 RACS workshop: Keeping trainees on track, Melbourne, VIC
9 RACGP Emergency update for practice nurses, Adelaide, SA
9–11 AFRM Disability studies conference,
Lancaster UK
9–13 22nd ASM of Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Adelaide, SA
10 World Suicide Prevention Day
10–12 ANZCA Ultrasound in anaesthetics and critical care, Gold Coast, QLD
10–12 World Congress on Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction, Sydney, NSW
11–12 Australian Disease Management Association 10th Annual National Conference: Chronic Disease Management the 2020 vision: Managing the rising tide of chronic conditions, Melbourne, VIC
11–13 ANZCA EMAC course, Sydney, NSW
12–13 RANZCP Introduction to psychiatry short course, Sydney, NSW
12–14 General Practitioner Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD
13 RACGP workshop: CPR for GPs, Perth, WA
14–17 29th International Association for Breast Cancer Research, National Breast Cancer Foundation Conference, Sydney, NSW
14–20 Australia and Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development workshop, Coolum, QLD
15–19 Basic echocardiography workshop, Gold Coast, QLD
17 3pm–5pm AFRM (RACP) Bi-national training program, spinal cord injury, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD
17–18 ANZCA Practical ECHO skills workshop, Brisbane, QLD
18–20 Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand ASM, Adelaide, SA
19 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Intermediate, Hobart, TAS
20–21 ANZCA Ultrasound – critical care, Sydney, NSW
20–21 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Hobart, TAS
23 RACS workshop: Non-technical skills for surgeons, New Zealand
24 RACP Paediatric Further Education and Training, Melbourne, VIC
24–26 ANZCA EMAC, Wellington, New Zealand
25 RACS workshop: Polishing presentation skills, Sydney, NSW
25–26 ANZCA National Health Education and Training in Simulation program, Adelaide, SA
26 World Contraception Day
27 RACGP Skins Alive workshop, Sydney, NSW
27–28 ANZCA Windows to the Heart Bedside ECHO, Noosa, QLD
28 World Rabies Day
29 World Heart Day
30 HealthCAM 2014, Brisbane, QLD
30 Sep–3 Oct 49th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Hobart, TAS
OCTOBER
1–31 Breast Cancer Awareness Month
1–3 ANZCA Goal directed basic ECHO for critical care physicians, Melbourne, VIC
2 World Cerebral Palsy Day
2 Emerging Health Policy Research Conference, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2–3 ANZCA Advanced life support 2 provider course, Melbourne, VIC
2–4 Neurosurgical Society of Australasia ASM, Perth, WA
3–5 Trauma 2014 Conference, Sydney, NSW
4 10th Cowlishaw Symposium, Melbourne, VIC
4 RACGP workshop: Clinical exam (OSCE) simulated, Melbourne, VIC
4 RACGP workshop: Post-traumatic stress disorder, Perth, WA
6–8 ANZCA Process communication model course Part 1, TBA
7–10 ANZCA Ultrasound in intensive care,
Gold Coast, QLD
8 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Intermediate, Adelaide, SA
8–9 ANZCA ICU and perfusion adult ECMO course, Melbourne, VIC
8–11 RANZCP Faculty of child and adolescent psychiatry bi-national conference,
Gold Coast, QLD
9 World Sight Day
9–11 ANZCA EMAC course, Sydney, NSW
9–11 RACGP National Conference, Adelaide, SA
10 World Mental Health Day
10 ANZCA workshop: Anaesthetic emergency responses, Melbourne, VIC
10 RACS workshop: Keeping trainees on track, Canberra, ACT
11 ANZCA ANZSAC Airway management workshop, Melbourne, VIC
12–13 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Adelaide, SA
13 Connections 2014: Spinal Cord Injury Network, Sydney, NSW
13–15 National Indigenous Women’s Conference, Cairns, QLD
13–24 ANZCA Primary refresher course in anaesthesia, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW
15 Global Handwashing Day
15 World idic15 Awareness Day
15 Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
15–17 RANZCP New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand
16–17 Indian Ocean Rim Laboratory Haematology Conference, Mandurah, WA
16–18 Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society ASM, Sydney, NSW
16–19 SPANZA 2014 conference, Hobart, TAS
17 ANZCA Bronchoscopy for critical care, Melbourne, VIC
17 RACGP workshop: Red flags in general practice, Perth, WA
17–19 Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine ASM, Melbourne, VIC
18 World Vasectomy Day
18 RACGP Regional ALM roadshow,
Toowoomba, QLD
18 RACS SAT SET course, Sydney, NSW
18 RACS workshop: Keeping trainees on track, Sydney, NSW
19–22 Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand ASM, Perth, WA
20 World Osteoporosis Day
21 RACS SAT SET course, New Zealand
21 RACGP CPR workshop, Brisbane, QLD
23–25 RACS Surgical teachers course, Sydney, NSW
24 RACS workshop: Non-technical skills for surgeons, Hobart, TAS
24–25 RACS Tasmanian ASM, Hobart, TAS
- Cate Swannell