"Emergency medicine is a field of practice based on the knowledge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of episodic undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders; it further encompasses an understanding of the development of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical systems and the skills necessary for this development." (As defined by the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, 1991)
While much of the work is based in the emergency department, emergency medicine specialists may also be involved in observation medicine, hyperbaric medicine, toxicology, retrieval, pre-hospital care or academic emergency medicine.
Dr Matthew Clarke came over from the UK in December 2004. He is currently on the ED training scheme with the College. He has worked across the Auckland DHB’s in ED, PICU, CED and ICU.....
Across our Auckland hospitals, you can gain experience in:
Training to become an Emergency Medicine Specialist in Auckland is a comprehensive five year programme that encompasses all of the rotations required to fulfil the requirements for advanced training of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). This involves rotations through the Emergency Departments of Auckland, Middlemore, North Shore and Starship Hospitals as well as a number of rotations to other departments.
The training programme in Auckland is organised by the Emergency Medicine Vocational Training Committee with representation from all hospitals across Auckland and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland. This Committee is committed to further improve the quality of teaching in Emergency Medicine in Auckland.