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
NOVEMBER
1-30 Movember
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 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
9–11 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
12 World Pneumonia Day
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
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
13-15 Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society, 8th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey
14 World Diabetes Day
14-15 Arthritis and Osteoporosis WA Making Sense of Pain, Perth, WA
14–16 General Practitioner Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
15 RACS workshop: Building towards retirement, Sydney, NSW
15 RACS workshop: Communication skills for cancer clinicians, 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 World Health Organization 2nd International Conference on Nutrition, Rome, ITALY
19–21 ANZCA Ultrasound for intensive care, Melbourne, VIC
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
21–23 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
23-25 International Foundation for Integrated Care 2nd World Congress on Integrated Care, Sydney, NSW
24–28 4th World Congress of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy, Cape Town, South Africa
27–28 ANZCA Haemodynamic evaluation and related therapies, Melbourne, VIC
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 International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics Asian Prosthetic and Orthotic Scientific Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan
29 MJA Professional Development: An adult respiratory CPD program for general practitioners and non-respiratory specialists, Sydney, NSW
29 ANZCA Anatomy for anaesthetists, Sydney, NSW
29–30 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program – Advanced, Sydney, NSW
29 Nov–3 Dec Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists annual conference, Melbourne, VIC
DECEMBER
1 World AIDS Day
1–3 ANZCA Process communication model course Part 1, Rotorua, New Zealand
1–5 44th Australasian Society for Immunology ASM, Wollongong, NSW
2 RACGP Emergency medicine and resuscitation update (CPR for GPs), Adelaide, SA
2 RACGP CPR workshop, QLD
2–4 Clinical Oncological Society of Australia 41st ASM, Melbourne, VIC
3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities
3-5 Australian Pain Management Association and Palliative Care Queensland, Fifty Shades of Pain: Managing complex pain across the continuum, Brisbane, QLD
3–6 World Cancer Congress, Melbourne, VIC
6 MJA Professional Development: An adult respiratory CPD program for general practitioners and non-respiratory specialists, Melbourne, VIC
7-11 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
8–12 ANZCA Basic echocardiography workshop, Gold Coast, QLD
11–12 ANZCA New anaesthetic registrar crisis management course, Wellington New Zealand
12–14 World Psychiatric Association Regional Congress 2014, Hong Kong
15–16 ANZCA Introduction to anaesthesia novice course, Wellington, New Zealand
15–17 World Indigenous Health Conference, Cairns, QLD
18–20 ANZCA EMAC course, Sydney, NSW
- Cate Swannell