Dr Dash Newington, Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)

1. AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF
ANAESTHETISTS (ANZCA)
SEEKING PROGRESS IN INDIGENOUS
HEALTH OUTCOMES
DR DASH NEWINGTON

2. MY BACKGROUND

3. WHAT DO ANAESTHETISTS DO?

6. MY INSPIRATION

7. royal commission into child sex abuse
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8. Five years full-time training
Requirements before starting training:
• - Medical degree
• - Minimum 2 years experience as a
general doctor (often much more)
Two years full-time training
Requirements before starting training:
• - Medical degree
• - Must already have completed a specialty
training program (e.g. anaesthetics,
physician, general practice)

9. Fully Qualified Specialists
• - Australia: 4771
• - New Zealand: 729
Specialists in Training
• - Australia: 1356
• - New Zealand: 275
Fully Qualified Specialists
• - Australia: 300
• - New Zealand: 32
Specialists in Training
• - Australia: 67
• - New Zealand: 9

10. 2013 AGREEMENT
1. Medical schools
2. Pre-vocational bodies
3. Post-graduate medical colleges

11. INDIGENOUS MEDICAL STUDENT NUMBERS
www.medicaldeans.org.au

12. INDIGENOUS MEDICAL STUDENT NUMBERS
www.medicaldeans.org.au

13. WHAT YEAR DID THE FIRST ABORIGINAL DOCTOR GRADUATE?
Professor Helen Milroy
University of Western Australia
1983

14. INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ANAESTHETISTS (FULLY QUALIFIED)
Number of Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander Fellows
None 1-3 4-5 5-10 >10
Australasian College of
Dermatologists
Australasian College of
Emergency Medicine
Australian and New
Zealand College of
Anaesthetists
Australian College of
Rural and Remote
Medicine
Royal Australian
College of General
Practitioners
Australasian College of
Sport and Exercise
Physicians
Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons
Royal Australian and
New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists
Royal Australasian
College of Physicians
College of Intensive
Care Medicine
Royal Australian and
New Zealand College of
Ophthalmologists
Royal Australasian
College of Medical
Administrators
Royal Australasian
College of Obstetricians
and Gynaecologists
Royal College of
Pathologists of
Australia
Royal Australasian
College of Radiologists
www.health.org.au / www.aida.org.au

15. Number of Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander Registrars
None 1-3 4-5 5-10 >10
Australasian College of
Sport and Exercise
Physicians
Australasian College of
Dermatologists
Australasian College
of Emergency
Medicine
Australian College of
Rural and Remote
Medicine
Royal Australian
College of General
Practitioners
College of Intensive
Care Medicine
Australian and New
Zealand College of
Anaesthetists
Royal Australasian
College of
Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists
Royal Australian and
New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists
Royal Australasian
College of Physicians
Royal Australasian
College of Medical
Administrators
Royal Australasian College
of Surgeons
Royal Australian and
New Zealand College of
Ophthalmologists
Royal Australasian College
of Radiologists
Royal College of
Pathologists of Australia
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ANAESTHETISTS IN TRAINING
www.health.org.au / www.aida.org.au

16. College of Anaesthetists - Current Members
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander (3%) Maori & Pacific Islander (22%)
ANZCA Fellow 4 (0.08%) 29 (4.02%)
ANZCA Trainee 3 (0.24%) 17 (6.97%)
FPM Fellow 0 4 (11.76%)
FPM Trainee 0 (first trainee accepted for 2019) 1 (11.11%)
College of Anaesthetists at Population Parity
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander (3%) Maori & Pacific Islander (22%)
ANZCA Fellow 148 159
ANZCA Trainee 38 54
FPM Fellow 9 7
FPM Trainee 2 2
www.anzca.edu.au

17. ANZCA INDIGENOUS
HEALTH COMMITTEE
2011

18. 2011 – FIRST ANZCA SPONSORSHIP OF AIDA

19. ONGOING SUPPORT OF AIDA SYMPOSIUMS SINCE 2011

20. HOSTING WORKSHOPS AT AIDA SYMPOSIUM

21. “Growing our Fellows” workshops
Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association
Melbourne 2014
Cairns 2016
Perth 2018

22. INDIGENOUS SPONSORSHIP TO ATTEND ANZCA ASM
12 places sponsored since 2014

23. MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS
• - FAIMM (Flinders Adelaide Indigenous Medical Mentoring)
• - Pital Tarkin (Newcastle)
• Acknowledgement to Dr Mich Poppinghaus

24. INDIGENOUS IDENTIFIED TRAINING POSITIONS
• Identified position for
Aboriginal/ Torres Strait
Islander doctor
•
• 12 months (6 months
anaesthesia, 6 months
ICU)
•
• Accredited training
position (ANZCA, CICM,
ACEM, ACRRM and
RACGP)
•
• Acknowledgment to Dr
Penny Stewart

25. SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS TRAINEES TO PASS EXAMS

26. SUPPORTING NON-INDIGENOUS ANAESTHETISTS TO LEARN
• - Encouraging anaesthetists to participate in the Australian Indigenous Doctors’
Association’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in Clinical Practice Training
Program.
•
• - Clinically-focused training program delivered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
doctors
• - Designed to assist doctors to integrate cultural safety into their everyday practice
and enhance behaviour change.

27. BE INFORMED
www.anzca.edu.au

28. SUPPORTIVE LEADERSHIP

30. ANAESTHETIC COLLEGE MAGAZINES

32. THANK YOU