ANZCA Course in Perioperative Medicine supervisors will plan and facilitate the participant clinical immersion experience at a hospital.

The purpose of the ESN is “to advocate, collaborate and promote initiatives and projects related to environmental sustainability within anaesthesia, perioperative and pain medicine”.

There are three commonly recognised types of pain.

As pain medicine is a multi-disciplinary specialty, specialist pain medicine physicians come from a variety of backgrounds.

Our Perioperative Care Framework maps the patient’s journey from the time surgery is contemplated through to an optimal outcome.

The centralised trainee tutorial program is an exciting initiative introduced in 2021 to provide all pain medicine trainees with access to a formalised teaching program and regular opportunities to engage with other trainees.

Anaesthesia is one of the greatest discoveries of modern medicine. In fact, many of today’s operations, especially for the very young, very old, or very ill would not be possible without it.

The FPM Victoria Regional Committee is an elected body that acts as a conduit between fellows and trainees in the Victoria regions, and the FPM Board and Professional Standards Committee to which they report.

Information regarding the impacts to pain medicine training during the COVID-19 pandemic

Opioids are a class of medicines taken to help reduce pain. They work on the central nervous system to slow down nerve signals between the brain and the body.