Impact of clinical placement sites on general practice as a career preference for Australian medical students.

Objective: This study investigates whether General Practice placement experience or locations (urban/metropolitan vs non-metropolitan) promote student interest in pursuing general practice.

Design: SurveyMonkey was used in the design of the survey.

Setting: The study was conducted online.

Australian medical student expectations of work-life balance as a doctor.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. To explore the perceptions of medical students on achieving good work-life balance after graduation, and their opinions on parenting having an impact on their future careers.

Alcohol-related harm in emergency departments: a prospective, multi-centre study.

Background And Aims: Emergency department (ED) alcohol-related presentation data are not routinely collected in Australia and New Zealand. It is likely that previous research has underestimated the numbers of patients presenting with alcohol-related conditions. This study aimed to quantify the level of alcohol harm presenting to EDs in Australia and New Zealand [Correction added on 23 Jan 2018, after first online publication: The 'aims' section was missing and is updated in this version].

The Emergency Medicine Events Register: An analysis of the first 150 incidents entered into a novel, online incident reporting registry.

Objective: Incident reporting systems are critical to understanding adverse events, in order to create preventative and corrective strategies. There are very few systems dedicated to Emergency Medicine with published results. All EDs in Australia and New Zealand were contacted to encourage the use of an Emergency Medicine - specific online reporting system called the Emergency Medicine Events Register (EMER).

Perceptions of Australasian emergency department staff of the impact of alcohol-related presentations.

Objectives: To survey emergency department (ED) clinical staff about their perceptions of alcohol-related presentations.

Design, Setting And Participants: A mixed methods online survey of ED clinicians in Australia and New Zealand, conducted from 30 May to 7 July 2014.

Main Outcome Measures: The frequency of aggression from alcohol-affected patients or their carers experienced by ED staff; the perceived impact of alcohol-related presentations on ED function, waiting times, other patients and staff.

Development of a productive research culture in emergency medicine: Report of the outcomes of a research forum.

In recent years, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has increasingly focused on the need for high-quality research in emergency medicine (EM). One important initiative was the establishment of the ACEM Foundation, which among other responsibilities, is required to support clinical research through the provision of research funding and other measures. In February 2015, the Foundation held a Research Forum that was attended by the leading EM researchers from Australasia.

Public health in Australasian emergency departments: Attitudes, barriers and current practices.

Objective: To understand the attitudes of consultant emergency medicine physicians and advanced trainees and the perceived barriers to public health interventions in Australasian EDs.

Methods: This was a voluntary cross-sectional, mixed-methods online survey of consultant emergency physicians and advanced trainees of the ACEM, conducted between December 2011 and March 2012.

Results: Eight hundred and fifty-six ACEM members responded to the survey - a response rate of 33%.

The Medical Boomerang: will it come back?

Objectives: To explore the increasing numbers of emergency medicine (EM) registrars that obtained their primary medical degree from UK or Irish universities, who work in emergency departments (ED) throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Methods: The Victorian Emergency Registrar Study was published at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) annual scientific meeting in Adelaide in November 2013. As a follow on, ACEM provided the authors with data regarding country of primary degree for international medical graduates (IMG) working as registrars in Australasian EDs.

Survey of alcohol-related presentations to Australasian emergency departments.

Objective: To determine the proportion of alcohol-related presentations to emergency departments (EDs) in Australia and New Zealand, at a single time point on a weekend night shift.

Design, Setting And Participants: A point prevalence survey of ED patients either waiting to be seen or currently being seen conducted at 02:00 local time on 14 December 2013 in 106 EDs in Australia and New Zealand.

Main Outcome Measures: The number of ED presentations that were alcohol-related, defined using World Health Organization ICD-10 codes.

Piloting an online incident reporting system in Australasian emergency medicine.

Background: Medical-specific incident reporting systems are critical to understanding error in healthcare but underreporting by doctors reduces their value.

Objective: We conducted a pilot study of the implementation of an online ED-specific incident reporting system in Australasian hospitals and evaluated its use.

Methods: The reporting system was based on the literature and input of experts.

Quantifying the proportion of general practice and low-acuity patients in the emergency department.

Objective: To accurately estimate the proportion of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) who may have been suitable to be seen in general practice.

Design: Using data sourced from the Emergency Department Information Systems for the calendar 2013s 2009 to 2011 at three major tertiary hospitals in Perth, Western Australia, we compared four methods for calculating general practice-type patients. These were the validated Sprivulis method, the widely used Australasian College for Emergency Medicine method, a discharge diagnosis method developed by the Tasmanian Department of Human and Health Services, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) method.

Trajectory to fellowship: an analysis of the current pathway to becoming a psychiatrist.

Objective: This study sought to examine the pathway and barriers to attaining The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists'(RANZCP) Fellowship for those undergoing the current training program, which was implemented in November 2003. This program involved a new training structure, with basic (years 1-3) and advanced (years 4-5) requirements. All formal assessments occur during Basic Training, while either generalist or sub-specialty streams are available during Advanced Training.

Retinal light damage: structural and functional effects of the antioxidant glutathione peroxidase-1.

Purpose: The role of the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase-1 (GPx1) in protecting the retina against photo-oxidative damage was investigated in GPx1-deficient and wild-type mice.

Method: Albino GPx1-deficient and age-matched wild-type mice were examined. Baseline electroretinograms (ERGs) were recorded.