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
15-18 Societe Internationale d’Urologie Annual Congress, Melbourne, VIC
16 Australasian College of Sports Physicians GP Symposium 2015, Melbourne, VIC
16-18 Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand ASM 2015, Melbourne, VIC
16-19 RANZCOG ASM, Perth, WA
16-19 Australian Society of Cytology 45th ASM, Brisbane, QLD
17 Women’s Health Matters: Challenges and Changes in 2015, Melbourne, VIC
18-21 HAA 2015 ASM, Adelaide, SA
20-23 Australian and New Zealand Burns Association 39th ASM, Melbourne, VIC
22-23 MIIAA Annual Forum, Sydney NSW
22-24 Rural Medicine Australia 2015, Adelaide, SA
22-24 Australasian Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health 2015 Conference, Adelaide, SA
22-25 Australasian Doctors Health Conference 2015, Melbourne, VIC
23-25 36th Annual Meeting, Australasian Dermatopathology Society, Sydney, NSW
24 2015 Joint Airway and Obstetric Anaesthesia Special Interest Group Meeting: The obstetric airway, a game of two halves, Melbourne, VIC
26-27 Safe and Secure Hospitals Conference, Melbourne, VIC
26-27 13th Australasian Biospecimens Network Association Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW
26-27 Future of Health Policy Reform Forum, Sydney, NSW
26-28 7th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, Creswick, VIC
28-30 ACHS/ACHSM Joint Asia-Pacific Congress 2015: Health leadership: odds-on favourite, Melbourne, VIC
29-31 2nd Global Advances and Controversies in Skin Cancer 2015, Brisbane, QLD
29 Oct-1 Nov6 6th ASM Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, Adelaide, SA
November 2015
1-4 3rd International Conference on Circular Proteins ICCP2015, Brisbane, QLD
2-4 National Primary Health Care Conference, Canberra, ACT
6-7 RANZCP Section of Neuropsychiatry Conference, Melbourne, VIC
6-7 ASBDD Conference, Sydney, NSW
9-13 13th Congress of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Gold Coast, QLD
11-13 Hospital in the Home 8th Annual Scientific Meeting 2015: HITH at 21: Maturity, Responsibility and Quality, Sydney, NSW
13-14 Interdisciplinary Cerebrovascular Symposium, Gold Coast, QLD
14-15 11th National Laser and Cosmetic Medicine Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
16-18 Improving Healthcare International Convention, Melbourne, VIC
17-18 Second National Complex Needs Conference, Canberra, ACT
17-19 Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 42nd ASM, Hobart, TAS
18-20 International Conference on Neurology and Epidemiology, Gold Coast, QLD
19-21 Paediatric Pathology Society and ANZ Paediatric Pathology Group Joint Scientific Meeting, Perth, WA
19-21 Mercy Global Obstetric Update, Melbourne, VIC
20-22 RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy Conference, Sunshine Coast, QLD
21 2015 Sydney Colorectal Surgical Meeting, Sydney, NSW
22 National Fertility Conference Medical Update 2015, Melbourne, VIC
22-26 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 32nd ASM, Brisbane, QLD
23-24 Defence Human Sciences Symposium 2015, Melbourne, VIC
24-25 2015 Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care National Conference, Melbourne, VIC
25-26 AOPA Congress 2015: Enhancing quality and performance, Adelaide, SA
25-28 RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Joint Conference with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychology, Psychiatry and Law 35th Annual Congress, Canberra, ACT
26-28 RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age and APS Psychology and Ageing Special Interest Group Joint Conference, Adelaide, SA
27-29 International 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
1-41 4th International Scientific Conference of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology, Perth, WA
3-5 Inaugural International Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Congress, Sydney, NSW
7-8 Livin’ It: Let’s Work With It: People, Employment and Mental Health, Sydney, NSW
7-9 9th Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Melbourne, VIC
9-11 3rd International Conference on UV and Skin Cancer Prevention, Melbourne, VIC
14-16 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Cairns, QLD
February 2016
5-6 3rd International Four Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
26-27 Obstetric Intensive Care Symposium, Adelaide, SA
26-28 Pathology Update: A diamond date, Melbourne, VIC
March 2016
1 Mar Asian Australasian Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Meeting, Cairns, QLD
3-4 Evidence Review in Emergency Medicine FSM, Wollongong, NSW
3-5 AGES XXVI Annual Scientific Meeting 2016, Brisbane, QLD
11 5th International Medical Symposium: Future challenges for the medical profession, Sydney, NSW
11-13 2016 ANZSNR Meeting, Hunter Valley, NSW
13-16 Australian Pain Society 36th Annual Scientific Meeting: Pain: Meeting the Challenge, Perth, WA
14-17 Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group 28th ASM, Brisbane, QLD
19-23 Ottawa and ANZAHPE 2016 Conference, Perth, WA
29 Mar-1 Apr Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association Congress 2016, Melbourne, VIC
April 2016
1-6 Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand ASM 2016, Perth, WA
13-16 General Assembly and International Conference on Asian Pacific Organisation of Cancer Prevention, Brisbane, QLD
30 Apr-4 May ANZCA 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland, NZ
May 2016
14-19 49th Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Perth, WA
16-18 Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Congress, Adelaide, SA
19-20 ACEM Queensland Autumn Symposium, Brisbane, QLD
June 2016
1-3 Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) Annual Scientific Meeting 2016, Cairns, QLD
17-18 Emergency South Australia FSM, Adelaide, SA
July 2016
1-2 Emergency South Australia (EMSA), Adelaide, SA
21-23 International Conference on Pediatric Dermatology, Brisbane, QLD
August 2016
12-14 Emergency Tasmania 2016, Launceston, TAS
21-26 International Congress of Immunology, Melbourne, VIC
26-27 2016 Australian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society ASM, Gold Coast, QLD
26-28 2016 ACD/ASDR/JDA/JSID/NZDSi Combined Meeting, Noosa, QLD
September 2016
18-22 International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Brisbane, QLD
20 Polio Australia’s 2016 Australasia-Pacific Post-Polio Conference, Sydney, NSW
October 2016
16-19 RANZCOG ASM, Perth, WA
21-23 RACS Victorian Annual Surgical Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
November 2016
19-23 48th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress, Melbourne, VIC
20-24 Australasian College of Emergency Medicine ASM, Queenstown, NZ
- Cate Swannell