This calendar includes conferences based in Australia into the foreseeable future, as far as can be confirmed. 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 = computed 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 2015
1-5Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference, Perth, WA
5-7Interprofessional Health, Education and Practice Conference, Melbourne, VIC
8-9Medical Deans Annual Conference 2015, Hobart, TAS
9-10Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society ASM, Sydney, NSW
9-11Australasian Military Medicine Association Conference 2015, Hobart, TAS
11-142015 Australasian Genomic Technologies Association Conference, Newcastle, NSW
11-15Australian Orthopaedic Association 75th Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, QLD
15-18Societe Internationale d’Urologie Annual Congress, Melbourne, VIC
16Australasian College of Sports Physicians GP Symposium 2015, Melbourne, VIC
16-19RANZCOG ASM, Perth, WA
16-19Australian Society of Cytology 45th ASM, Brisbane, QLD
18-21HAA 2015 ASM, Adelaide, SA
20-23Australian and New Zealand Burns Association 39th ASM, Melbourne, VIC
22-24Rural Medicine Australia 2015, Adelaide, SA
22-24Australasian Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health 2015 Conference, Adelaide, SA
22-25Australasian Doctors Health Conference 2015, Melbourne, VIC
23-2536th Annual Meeting, Australasian Dermatopathology Society, Sydney, NSW
26-27Safe and Secure Hospitals Conference, Melbourne, VIC
26-2713th Australasian Biospecimens Network Association Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW
26-27Future of Health Policy Reform Forum, Sydney, NSW
26-287th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, Creswick, VIC
28-30ACHS/ACHSM Joint Asia-Pacific Congress 2015: Health leadership: odds-on favourite, Melbourne, VIC
29-312nd Global Advances and Controversies in Skin Cancer 2015, Brisbane, QLD
29 Oct-1 Nov66th ASM Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, Adelaide, SA
November 2015
2-4National Primary Health Care Conference, Canberra, ACT
6-7RANZCP Section of Neuropsychiatry Conference, Melbourne, VIC
6-7ASBDD Conference, Sydney, NSW
9-1313th Congress of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Gold Coast, QLD
11-13Hospital in the Home 8th Annual Scientific Meeting 2015: HITH at 21: Maturity, Responsibility and Quality, Sydney, NSW
13-14Interdisciplinary Cerebrovascular Symposium, Gold Coast, QLD
16-18Improving Healthcare International Convention, Melbourne, VIC
17-18Second National Complex Needs Conference, Canberra, ACT
18-20International Conference on Neurology and Epidemiology, Gold Coast, QLD
19-21Paediatric Pathology Society and ANZ Paediatric Pathology Group Joint Scientific Meeting, Perth, WA
19-21Mercy Global Obstetric Update, Melbourne, VIC
20-22RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy Conference, Sunshine Coast, QLD
22-26Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 32nd ASM, Brisbane, QLD
25-26AOPA Congress 2015: Enhancing quality and performance, Adelaide, SA
25-28RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Joint Conference with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychology, Psychiatry and Law 35th Annual Congress, Canberra, ACT
26-28RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age and APS Psychology and Ageing Special Interest Group Joint Conference, Adelaide, SA
27-29International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation 1st ANZ Regional Conference: Broken structures, broken selves: complex trauma in the 21st century, Sydney, NSW
December 2015
1-414th International Scientific Conference of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology, Perth, WA
3-5Inaugural International Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Congress, Sydney, NSW
7-99th Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Melbourne, VIC
7-113rd International Conference on UV and Skin Cancer Prevention, Melbourne, VIC
14-16International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Cairns, QLD
February 2016
5-63rd International Four Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
26-28Pathology Update: A diamond date, Melbourne, VIC
March 2016
1Asian Australasian Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Meeting, Cairns, QLD
3-4Evidence Review in Emergency Medicine FSM, Wollongong, NSW
115th International Medical Symposium: Future challenges for the medical profession, Sydney, NSW
11-132016 ANZSNR Meeting, Hunter Valley, NSW
13-16Australian Pain Society 36th Annual Scientific Meeting: Pain: Meeting the Challenge, Perth, WA
14-17Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group 28th ASM, Brisbane, QLD
19-23Ottawa and ANZAHPE 2016 Conference, Perth, WA
29 Mar-1 AprAsia Pacific Orthopaedic Association Congress 2016, Melbourne, VIC
April 2016
13-16General Assembly and International Conference on Asian Pacific Organisation of Cancer Prevention, Brisbane, QLD
May 2016
14-1949th Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Perth, WA
16-18Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Congress, Adelaide, SA
June 2016
1-3Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) Annual Scientific Meeting 2016, Cairns, QLD
17-18Emergency South Australia FSM, Adelaide, SA
August 2016
21-26International Congress of Immunology, Melbourne, VIC
26-282016 ACD/ASDR/JDA/JSID/NZDSi Combined Meeting, Noosa, QLD
September 2016
18-22International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Brisbane, QLD
20Polio Australia’s 2016 Australasia-Pacific Post-Polio Conference, Sydney, NSW
October 2016
16-19RANZCOG ASM, Perth, WA
November 2016
19-2348th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress, Melbourne, VIC
- Cate Swannell