Asia-Pacific resources
The Global Development Committee develop and promote resources to support our Asia-Pacific colleagues' continued professional development.
Society of Anaesthesia of PNG Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 - POSTPONED
Saturday 6 November, 2021 - POSTPONED
Due to the rapid escalation of COVID-19 cases in Papua New Guinea placing significant pressure on hospitals, departments and staff, the Society of Anaesthetists of PNG Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting working group have made the decision to postpone the November meeting.
The ANZCA Global Development Committee maintains close contact with our colleagues in PNG and will continue to support them wherever possible.
Pacific online education sessions
To support our colleagues in the Pacific, ANZCA, along with the ASA and NZSA are hosting regular online education sessions thoughout 2021. Sessions are broken up into target audience and topic. The table below details confimed upcoming and past sessions available. Please note, all times are displayed in Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Presentation slides and documents can be found in the Pacific Online Learning and Education Project tab of the Asia-Pacific resources guide.
| Consultants CME |
Junior doctors and trainees |
Anaesthetic nurses and ASOs |
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Obstetric Anaesthesia
Dr Anna Loughnan
13 February 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Obstetric Anaesthesia
Dr Anna Loughnan
20 February 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Paediatric Anaesthesia
Dr Kim Fuller
13 March 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Advanced Life Support
Dr Jessica Lim
20 March 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Pain Management
Dr Roger Goucke
24 April 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Pain Management
Dr Roger Goucke
17 April 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Pain Management
Dr Roger Goucke
10 April 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST
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Regional Anaesthesia
Dr Mark Trembath
15 May 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
Regional Anaesthesia
Dr Matthew Ho
22 May 2021, 1.30pm - 3pm AEST
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Anaesthetic Crises
Dr Kat Meldon
19 June 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
Paediatric Anaesthesia
Dr Nlru Vitharana, Dr Nathan Hewitt and Dr Michael Cooper
26 June 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
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Exam preparation - tips and techniques
Associate Professor Terry Loughnan
17 July 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
Anaesthetic Equipement
Dr Michael Stone
24 July 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
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Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery
Dr Gareth Collins
21 August 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
Paediatric Trauma Management
Dr Michael Cooper and Dr Nilru Vitharana
7 August 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
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Perioperative Emergencies
Dr Ann Marie McCallum
25 September 2021, 9am - 10.30am AEST |
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Neonatal Anaesthesia
Dr Frances Ware
16 October 2021, 10am - 11.30am AEDT
Zoom link |
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9am AEST (Timor Leste 8am; PNG 9am; Micronesia 10am; Fiji 11am; Tonga 12pm)
Please contact the Global Development team if you have any questions or would like further information.
Library Guides - Asia-Pacific resources
The Asia-Pacific resources guide promotes key anaesthesia and pain medicine books and journals available online to local doctors in areas supported by the Global Development Committee such as Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
These resources are primariy curated from Hinari which provides free acess via a log-in to registered institutions in these countries, information about registering, or seeing if your institution has access to Hinari can be found here.
Interplast and ANZCA joint online education series
Interplast and ANZCA continue to host education webinars to support our colleagues working in low resource settings.
Webinar recordings - At the completion of each webinar, a recording will be available for all to access. Please note you will need to register to access the Praxhub platform.
ICU Management of Paediatric Patients - 13 August 2020
Pain Management - why we should take it seriously - 19 March 2021
Pre-Operative Assessment and Optimization of Paediatric Patients - 1 June 2021