DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Emergency - Medical

Emergency - Faculty

Emergency - Research

Emergency - Training Program

Medical

As part of a tertiary institution Christchurch Emergency Department provides access to Level Six acute care for the people of Christchurch and the surrounding Canterbury region. The Senior and Junior staff numbers reflect this level of service provision. Round-the-clock timely access to Consultant Emergency Physicians and a large Registrar presence is required for one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the Southern Hemisphere.

Faculty

Currently there are 10 Fellows of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (FACEMs) with a number of Medical Officers, Registrars, Senior Home Officers and House Officers.

The department was the first in Australasia and is still the only one in New Zealand to have an established university appointment [Michael Ardagh] holds the first Emergency Medicine Professorial Chair in New Zealand].

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Research

There is an active research program, with over 100 publications in the peer-reviewed medical and nursing literature in the last 10 years. The research emphasis centres around Emergency Department access and overcrowding, diagnostic decision making and ethics.

Training Program

The Department has full two year accreditation for Advanced training in Emergency Medicine by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. We have an active training program with most ED registrars being Emergency Specialist trainees. In additional, a number of EM trainees are rotating to paediatrics, intensive care, orthopaedics and anesthetics.

The Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) primary examination has been passed by a numerous trainees in the last few years.

The ACEM fellowship examination has been successfully attempted by a number of our trainees in the last few years.

The department has rostered allowance for weekly teaching and provision for reimbursement of travel/examination expenses, and training texts for trainees.

The weekly teaching includes:

General ED sessions - [Presentations by Trainees, Emergency Specialists and invited speakers]
Radiology- [Both reviews of the week's interesting images, and 'theme' sessions]
Primary exam preparation sessions
Fellowship preparation sessions.
Resuscitation scenarios

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