Emergency Medicine Education and Training (EMET)

Regional & Rural Emergency Medicine Education and Training Opportunities

The Ballarat EMET team in partnership with WestVic Primary Healthcare Network (PHN) are excited to be able to provide skill-based workshops for regional and rural GP and staff working in rural Urgent Care Centres in 2021.

Workshops consist of practical skill sessions and simulation covering common presentations, management and referral. They are category 2 ACCRM and RACGP accredited. 

Example of topics covered

• Burns first aid, management and referral
• Ophthalmology - Emergency eye procedures
• ENT Emergencies
• Musculoskeletal emergencies
• Alcohol and drugs of addictions

Plans for 2022 

Full day course Rural Emergency Skills workshops

Locations:  Ballarat & Daylesford

Proposed dates:

• February 2022
• March 2022

Short Sessions

30mins-1hrs sessions at our local Medical Practices who provide afterhours urgent care services

• Melton
• Bacchus Marsh

The Ballarat EMET HUB will continue to provide 4hrs FACEM lead registrar teaching and 3hrs of PGY2 + teaching weekly. This teaching includes regular multi-disciplinary simulation sessions

Are you interested in EMET coming to your Health Service or GP practice?

With funding from the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine we are looking to expand our emergency management training to support regional GPs and Acute Care Departments. These workshops will be open to all Medical, Nursing and Patient care staff in the region. 

Contact the EMET Program Support Office emet@bhs.org.au

Registrar

Wednesday afternoon: 3-4 hours

Protected education weekly, Thursday afternoon 2.00pm -5.00pm.

Below is a sample of the Junior Medical Officers teaching schedule:

EMET contact: Mary Drendel - emet@bhs.org.au

The Emergency Medicine Education and Training Program.

We have multiple Australian College of Emergency Medicine candidates completing either the Emergency Medicine Certificate or Diploma. These candidates are supported to complete all the required education and assessments. We provide a specific supervisor for each candidate.
The Emergency Medicine Education and Training (EMET) Program was established to improve care for patients requiring urgent and emergency care in Australia. The Commonwealth Department of Health has funded the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) to administer the EMET Program since 2011, as a component of the Emergency Medicine Program (EMP)

ACEM’s Emergency Medicine Certificate (EMC) and Diploma (EMD) Programs boost the quality of and access to emergency care in areas of need, particularly in rural Australia, through the increased provision of emergency medicine education, training and supervision led and delivered by Fellows of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEMs) for non-specialist doctors.

The Revised EMC Training Program can be found at https://acem.org.au/Content-Sources/Training

For more information contact: emet@bhs.org.au

While we are working on developing a suit of specialist presentations, BHS staff can access numerous recordings on the BHS SharePoint site

Self-directed Workbooks

At the Grampians Health Emergency Department, we aim to provide a structured education program aimed at covering issues within the department from clinical diagnosis to management and patient outcomes. 

In combination with the self-directed workbook the aim of providing these resources is to allow medical staff to assess their prior knowledge, and work at their own pace to improve their knowledge of Emergency Medicine.

Junior Medical Officers (JMO’s) are encouraged to review and complete the Grampians Health Self-Directed workbook

• BHS Emergency Medicine Workbook
• ED INTERN & HMO Orientation Guide May 2021

• ACEM EMET 
• LearnEM 
• Life in the Fastlane
  
  • Life in the Fast line (LITFL) library, anthologies and collections of emergency medicine and critical care education
• Radiopaedia
  • Radiopaedia’s mission is the create the best radiology reference the world has ever seen and to make it for free, for ever, for all.
• Trauma Victoria
  • Major Trauma guidelines and education – Victoria state trauma system