History of Emergency Medicine

OVERVIEW

“The history of emergency medicine in Australia and New Zealand has paralleled developments in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, although the models of emergency care exhibit some variation between systems, and between institutions within these systems” (ACEM website)

TIMELINE FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

  • 1967 — first full time Director of a ‘Casualty Department’ in Australia was appointed in Geelong, Victoria
  • 1981 — Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine was established
  • 1984 — Australasian College for Emergency Medicine was incorporated by 73 founding Fellows to improve standards and training
  • 1984 — first Primary Examination testing the basic sciences of Anatomy, Pathology, Physiology and Pharmacology
  • 1986 — first Fellowship Examination,(a six part clinical exit examination) with eight successful candidates
  • 1989 — first issue of ‘Emergency Medicine Australasia’ copublished by ACEM and ASEM.
  • 1991 — ACEM submitted an application to the National Specialist Qualification Advisory Committee for recognition as a principal specialty
  • 1993 — Commonwealth Minister for Health approved the recognition of emergency medicine as a principal specialty effective 8 August 1993
  • 1993 — ACEM established the Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
  • 1995 — emergency medicine was recognised as a medical specialty in New Zealand in November 1995
  • 1996 — first Professor of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Western Australia (George Jelinek)

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Social media and web resources


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