Committees of the ANZCA council are assisted in achieving objectives by several subcommittees.

Our awards, prizes and medals recognise achievements in areas such as the advancement and promotion of specialist medicine; exam performance; clinical research; education; and pastoral care.

There are some incredible opportunities to work and teach overseas as an anaesthetist or pain specialist, and make a real difference to global health. If you're interested in joining the ever-growing number of fellows developing and contributing to anaesthesia and pain medicin...

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

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.

We regularly invite our fellows and trainees to provide formal feedback on a range of college activities so we can continue to improve. The results and associated action plans are published here.

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.

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