Following the updated CPD program launch on 1 January 2023, the ANZCA and FPM CPD review project is now in phase two.

Applications for the 2023 ELC have now closed. Successful applicants will be notified in early December 2022.

Report following the FPM Board meetings held on 13 October and 4 December 2022.

Applications have now closed for the 2022 ELC.

Japanese anaesthetist Dr Naoko Nakaigawa shares her experience as a specialist international medical graduate (SIMG).

The healthcare sector is highly interconnected with activities that emit pollution to air, water and soils, resulting in a significant ecological footprint and contribution to anthropogenic climate change.

The Airway Management Special Interest Group (SIG) is developing a network of airway leads throughout the Australian healthcare sector. Members will work collaboratively to improve airway management in anaesthesia. A similar network already exists in New Zealand.

Managed by the ANZCA Global Development Committee, we have a number of other initiatives to help support and build the anaesthesia and pain medicine workforce in western Pacific countries

One of the key ways we're helping to provide patients in Australia and New Zealand with perioperative care is by creating a new qualification – the Diploma of Perioperative Medicine - that will enable specialist doctors such as anaesthetists, surgeons, physicians, intensivists...