4 February 2020Some highlights: Happy New Year | Combined Scientific Congress 2020 l AIC Journal access | Doctors' arts exhibition and function | NZSA member renewals | NZSA Executive 2020 | MOET course - save the date | WFSA President's message | World Congress l webAIRS Happy New Year 2020A happy new year to all our members. We are anticipating another full on and exciting year for the NZSA and encourage you to take up the multiple opportunities to engage with us and your colleagues. Our key event this year is our Combined Scientific Congress (16-19 October 2020 in Wellington - hopefully these dates are already in your diary), which we are jointly hosting with the Australian Society of Anaesthetists. See our next news item for details. Combined Scientific Congress 2020Combined Scientific Congress, 16-19 October, 2020 Wellington - SAVE THE DATE! AIC Journal updateAttention members: Access to the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Journal is a key NZSA member benefit and we want to help ensure that you are reading this excellent publication. Access to the Journal is via the website of the Australian Society of Anaesthetist's, as the NZSA website currently has limitations in managing this access. We are in the process of rebuilding our website and once this work is completed you will be able to directly login through the NZSA site. In the meantime here's the process to access the Journal: Click here and use your AIC login details (which takes you to the ASA website). Once logged in, it will take you to a page where you need to click the ASA Sage button. You can stay logged into the website so that when you click on this in future it will take you to the journal page immediately. Thank you for your patience as we work on an easier, simplified process. We have also added an AIC banner with links on the homepage of our website. If you have misplaced your AIC Journal login or need assistance accessing the journal contact Membership Manager Lynne Wood membership@anaesthesia.nz Writ in water: arts exhibition and functionAn invitation for all doctors (Friday 3 April 2020, Auckland) We're hoping to help doctors refocus on their lives outside of medicine, rediscover their creativity, and reconnect with friends and colleagues away from work. We've been blown away by the level of interest in exhibiting and performing to date, and now tickets are on sale via our website. If you're interested in exhibiting or performing but haven't yet gotten in touch, there's still room, but hurry, submissions close 28 February! Please see our website for more details and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any queries. Best wishes from the Organising Committee Membership renewalsInvoices for NZSA membership renewals have been sent to all members. Thank you to the many members who have already made payment. Ordinary fees have had a CPI increase, as voted for at the 2019 AGM, while all the other categories remain the same including trainee membership which continues to be free. We look forward to your member renewals and ongoing support. NZSA ExecutiveThe NZSA is delighted to welcome three new members to the Executive - Dr Renee Franklin from Tauranga, Dr Jonathan Panckhurst from Nelson and Dr Michael Wadsworth from Wellington (our new deputy trainee representative). We farewelled Trainee Representative Dr Nicole Vogts at the end of last year and would like to thank her again for her stellar commitment and work on behalf of trainees and the NZSA. Dr Michael Ng, of Wellington, has now taken over the trainee representative role. MOET CourseSave the dates of 7-9 May, 2020. The Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma (MOET) Course is an advanced emergency management and resuscitation course devised by and for anaesthetists and obstetricians, with help from obstetric physicians and ED specialists. It is designed to improve knowledge, skills and confidence in dealing with serious and life-threatening medical, trauma and obstetric conditions in pregnancy. MOET includes scenario training and small group work. Prior to the course, candidates are sent the course manual and are required to do on-line learning, so that more of the course time can be spent in small group work and less in lectures. Candidates will be given the latest Australian and New Zealand guidelines and information on many emergency topics e.g. acute asthma, DKA and C Spine imaging. A high instructor to candidate ratio ensures good support and learning. There is continuous assessment of progress during the course, which is comparable to the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) course and the Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) course. The course is $2600 for doctors and open to specialists and final year registrars in obstetrics, anaesthesia or emergency medicine. Senior midwives also attend. Course information and registration will be available soon. In the meantime if you have any inquiries, please contact Dr Douglas Mein douglas.mein@ccdhb.org.nz or Lynne Wood membership@anaesthesia.nz WFSA President's message"When reflecting on the work of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and its members I am incredibly optimistic for the continued strengthening of anaesthesia and perioperative care worldwide. By the end of 2019, over 5000 anaesthesia providers from 43 countries graduated from Safer Anaesthesia From Education (SAFE) training. On the policy stage, we continued to work with the WHO to place anaesthesia at the core of universal health coverage. This message was taken up by The Lancet’s Richard Horton in his address at the 2019 World Health Assembly. I am excited about building on these successes towards the 17th World Congress in Prague (5-9 September, 2020). Register for the Congress here The WFSA is, by its nature an organisation shaped and driven by its members. On behalf of the board members we are grateful for the inspiring and continued dedication of our member societies, our staff and all our volunteers. From all at the WFSA, I wish you all a very peaceful and happy new year." Dr Jannicke Mellin-Olsen WFSA World Congress 2020WFSA 17th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-9 September 2020 webAIRSUpdate of ‘forgotten password’ procedure Update of gmail issue Are you contributing to quality anaesthesia? Visit the webairs website to register or email anztadc@anzca.edu.au In the mediaHealth infrastructure spending Anaesthesia Continuing EducationThe ACE website is a one-stop shop for anaesthesia events. Members convening conferences, workshops or meetings, which assist CPD requirements, are encouraged to add their event to the website. Event highlightsVisit the NZSA events page for more NZ and overseas events PANNZ Update Meeting, 4 April 2020 (with workshops offered on 3 April), Rotorua Auckland City Symposium, 28 March 2020 Sustainable Healthcare Forum, Ora Taiao NZ Climate and Health Council, 16-17 June 2020, Wellington Advertising and quick links |