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
OCTOBER
6–8 ANZCA Process communication model course Part 1, TBA
6-11 15th World Congress on Pain, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 Australasian Sleep Association, Sleep Down Under 2014, Perth, WA
9-11 Australasian Sexual Health Conference, Sydney, NSW
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
10-12 Australian Paediatric Society, 8th Annual Diabetes Workshop, Canberra, ACT
11 ANZCA ANZSAC Airway management workshop, Melbourne, VIC
12–13 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Adelaide, SA
12-15 7th Asian Congress of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China
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
14 RACS, Professionalism and leadership workship, 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 Kaleidoscope Paediatric Update, Hunter Valley, NSW
16–17 Indian Ocean Rim Laboratory Haematology Conference, Mandurah, WA
16-18 North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity 2014 Symposium, Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA
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
18 RANZCR Image guided radiation therapy workshop, Wellington, NZ
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
22-24 4th Health and Wellbeing in Children, Youth and Adults with Developmental Disabilities Conference, Vancouver, Canada
23-24 7th Paediatric HIV Conference, Sydney, NSW
23-24 Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes Symposium, Alice Springs, NT
23–25 RACS Surgical teachers course, Sydney, NSW
23–26 International Psychogeriatric Association International meeting, Beijing, China
24 RACS workshop: Non-technical skills for surgeons, Hobart, TAS
24 RACP Enhancing upper limb recovery in stroke workshop, Adelaide, SA
24–25 RACS Tasmanian ASM, Hobart, TAS
24–25 Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology ASM, Melbourne, VIC
24-26 RACP Rural Medicine Conference, Dubbo, NSW
24–28 32nd World Congress of Internal Medicine, Seoul, North Korea
25–26 RACS workshop: Preparation for practice, Brisbane, QLD
25-31 International Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week
26–29 International Cytokine and Interferon Society Conference, Melbourne, VIC
27–28 ANZCA Critical care echocardiography course, Melbourne, VIC
27–31 RANZCOG revision course, Sydney, NSW
27–28 Mind and its potential, Sydney, NSW
28 RACS workshop: Non-technical skills for surgeons, Brisbane, QLD
29 ANZCA Critical care ultrasound course, Melbourne, VIC
29 RACS workshop: Clinical decision making, Brisbane, QLD
29 3pm–5pm AFRM (RACP) Bi-national training program, multiple sclerosis pathogenesis and management
29 Evidence-based practice workshop for health/science writers, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD
30 Surgical Leaders’ Forum, RACS Melbourne, VIC
30–31 ANZCA Critical care echocardiography course, Melbourne, VIC
30 Oct–1 Nov Rural Medicine Australia National Conference, Sydney, NSW
30 Oct–1 Nov ANZCA EMAC course, Sydney, NSW
30 Oct–1 Nov International Conference on Humanitarian Medical Mission, Singapore
30 Oct–2 Nov Joint congress: World Psychiatric Association Thematic Conference on Intersectional Collaboration, 5th European Congress of the International Neuropsychiatric Association, and 2nd Interdisciplinary Congress on Psychiatry and Related Sciences, Athens, Greece
NOVEMBER
1-30 Movember
1 International Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Awareness Day
1–2 ASAPO 16th National Conference and Scientific Exhibition, Albury, VIC
3–6 ANZCA Getting started in echocardiography workshop, Brisbane, QLD
5 RACGP Practice innovation meeting, Perth, WA
5–6 ANZCA Basic assessment and support in intensive care, Melbourne, VIC
5–7 14th International Forum on Mood and Anxiety Disorder, Vienna, Austria
6–8 Asia Pacific Lung Cancer Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6–9 16th National Conference of Pediatric Critical Care, New Delhi, India
7 ANZCA Royal Melbourne Hospital annual refresher course, Melbourne
7 RANZCOG NSW/ACT Registrar Education Day, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW
7 RACGP Developmental disabilities, challenging behaviour and mental health: research to practice and policy, Sydney, NSW
7–8 ANZCA Introductory ultrasound for anaesthetists, Melbourne, VIC
7–8 RANZCP Section of neuropsychiatry conference, Melbourne Brain Centre, Melbourne, VIC
7–8 Combined Australia and New Zealand Colorectal Surgical Meeting, Sydney, NSW
8 International Day of Radiology
8 RACGP Private practice: The journey from start to finish, Brisbane, QLD
8–10 ANZCA x-ray – combined chest and emergency interpretation, Noosa Heads, QLD
8–11 Biennial meeting of the International Gynaecologic Cancer Society, Melbourne, VIC
9 RACS SAT SET course, New Zealand
9 RACGP Fellowship and Awards Ceremony, Sydney, NSW
9–11 Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Conference, Lorne, VIC
9–12 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs scientific conference, Adelaide, SA
11 RACGP Emergency update for practice staff, Adelaide, SA
11–13 ANZCA EMAC course, Melbourne, VIC
11–14 Asia Pacific Coroners Society conference, Melbourne, VIC
12 World Pneumonia Day
12 2pm–5pm RACP National Brain School, multisite
12 ANZCA Echo in life support, Melbourne, VIC
12–14 ANZCA Ultrasound in anaesthetics and critical care, Gold Coast, QLD
12–14 6th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, Albury, VIC
12-15 29th Annual Meeting North American Spine Society, San Francisco, USA
13 Academy of Surgical Educators forum, Adelaide, SA
13 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Intermediate, Melbourne, VIC
13–14 ANZCA Advanced life support 2 provider course, Melbourne, VIC
13–15 RANZCP Faculty of psychiatry of old age conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW
13–15 World Association of Social Psychiatry Jubilee Congress, London, UK
14 World Diabetes Day
14–16 IOF Regionals 5th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis ASM, Taipei, Taiwan
14–16 General Practitioner Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
14–16 RACGP SA Fellowship preparation program, location to be confirmed
15 RACS workshop: Building towards retirement, Sydney, NSW
15 RACS workshop: Communication skills for cancer clinicians, Melbourne, VIC
15 RACGP WA Fellowship and Awards Ceremony, Perth
15–16 ANZCA iHeartScan workshop, Melbourne, VIC
15–16 ANZCA CT – acute medical and surgical interpretation, Noosa Heads, QLD
16 World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day
16-18 6th Biennial Australian Falls Prevention Conference, Sydney, NSW
16-19 International Forum on Disability Management 2014 Conference, Melbourne, VIC
16–19 Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, Melbourne, VIC
17 World Prematurity Day
17–18 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Melbourne, VIC
17-19 International Forum on Disability Management, Melbourne, VIC
18–21 ANZCA Ultrasound in intensive care, Gold Coast, QLD
19–21 ANZCA Ultrasound for intensive care, Melbourne, VIC
19–21 Paediatric Society of New Zealand, 66th ASM, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
20 RACS SAT SET course, Melbourne, VIC
20–21 ANZCA Transoesophageal echocardiography course, Melbourne, VIC
20–22 ANZCA Effective management of anaesthetic crises, Melbourne, VIC
21 RACS workshop: Non-technical skills for surgeons, Melbourne, VIC
21–22 3rd Biennial Australasian Conference in Error in Medical Imaging, Adelaide, SA
21–23 ANZCA Process communication course, Part 2, Adelaide, SA
22 RACP Continuing Education Workshop, Melbourne, VIC, + video
22–23 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Brisbane, QLD
22–23 International Scientific Meeting in Anaesthesiology, Hong Kong
22–23 ANZCA Windows to the Heart Bedside ECHO, Melbourne, VIC
24–28 4th World Congress of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy, Cape Town, South Africa
24 Nov–05 Dec ANZCA Primary Part 1 full-time course, Melbourne, VIC
25–28 RANZCOG revision course, TBC
26 3pm–5pm AFRM (RACP) Bi-national training program, Parkinson’s disease and motor neurone disease, location to be confirmed
27–28 ANZCA Haemodynamic evaluation and related therapies, Melbourne, VIC
27–29 8th International Conference of SAARC Psychiatric Federation 2014. Global Peace: To Nurture a Healthy Mind, Nepal
27–29 ANZCA EMAC course, Sydney, NSW
28 ANZCA NHET-Sim workshop, Brisbane, QLD
28 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Intermediate, Sydney, NSW
28–30 RACGP Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and counselling skills – 3 day workshop, Perth, WA
28-30 Asian P&O Scientific Meeting, ISPO, Taipei, Taiwan
29 ANZCA Anatomy for anaesthetists, Sydney, NSW
29 RACGP SA pre-exam seminar 2014, location to be confirmed
29–30 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Sydney, NSW
29 Nov–3 Dec Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists annual conference, Melbourne, VIC
30 Nov–5 Dec 100th Radiological Society of North America ASM, Chicago, Ill, USA
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27–28 ANZCA Haemodynamic evaluation and related therapies, Melbourne, VIC
27–29 8th International Conference of SAARC Psychiatric Federation 2014. Global Peace: To Nurture a Healthy Mind, Nepal
27–29 ANZCA EMAC course, Sydney, NSW
28 ANZCA NHET-Sim workshop, Brisbane, QLD
28 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Intermediate, Sydney, NSW
28–30 RACGP Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and counselling skills – 3 day workshop, Perth, WA
29 ANZCA Anatomy for anaesthetists, Sydney, NSW
29 RACGP SA pre-exam seminar 2014, location to be confirmed
29–30 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Sydney, NSW
29 Nov–3 Dec Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists annual conference, Melbourne, VIC
30 Nov–5 Dec 100th Radiological Society of North America ASM, Chicago, Ill, USA
- Cate Swannell