Emergency Care Capacity
Development -
Are specialists really a priority?
The 2nd IEC Symposium, 2013
Chris CurryAssoc. Professor, University of Western Australia
Emergency Physician, Fremantle Hospital
Specialists contribute leadership
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Contents
• Aust/New Zealand – ambulance crews, nurses,
– undergraduates, postgraduates
• PNG - PTC, ELS, SIREN, Snakebite, Advanced Diploma,
HEO training, emergency nurse training
• Nepal– pre-hospital care, BLS
• Myanmar– ambulance crews, nurses, postgraduates
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Who cares?
• Medical director, ambulance service
• NZ Ambulance Board
• ‘Frontline’ - journal of Institute of Ambulance Officers
• Emergency nurse training, conferences,
• ‘NZ Practice Nurse’ journal
• Introduction of EM to medical undergraduate
curriculum
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EM in
Papua New Guinea
1996 establishment of program
2000 EM a priority in the National
Health Plan
2002 emergency physician in residence
and visiting EPs
2006 first graduate
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consequences
COURSES
• Primary Trauma Care
• Emergency Life Support
• SIREN – Serious Illness in Remote Environments
• Snakebite management
Advanced Diploma in EM for HEOs, nurses, CHWs
Enhanced HEO training
Emergency Nurse training at PMGH
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Providing PTC
courses
EM trainees
as
Primary
Trauma Care
course
instructors
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Instructors
on courses
Senior
Instructors
work on an
Emergency
Life Support
course
Asthma
and the
Coke bottle spacer10
An EM trainee
instructs
on an
Emergency
Life Support
course
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An EM trainee
instructs
on a
Snakebite
Management
course
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Training for Advanced Diploma in EM
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Enhancing HEO training
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EM in
Nepal
2011 Launch of program for
Doctor of Medicine,
Emergency Medicine
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Leading emergency care development
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Nepal Academy for Disaster and
Emergency Medicine
NADEM
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2013 – first consideration of nurse training
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EM in Myanmar
Phase 1 – 2012-2013
-2014-2015
Diploma of EM
Phase 2 – 2016
Master Med Sc EM
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2013 – first consideration of nurse training
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It is about ‘who cares’
Hierarchy is important in developing country
cultures
Leadership is critical – from the specialists
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