A trainee's perspective on the ACEM Training Program. This slideshow was for a talk presented by Andrew Perry (Trainee Committee Chair) at the 2011 ACEM ASM.

1. The Australasian Training
Program
A Trainee Perspective
Andrew Perry
Trainee Committee Chair

2. What will be covered?
• ACEM by numbers
• What do we value about the training program?
• What could be improved – and how.

3. Lies, lies and damn statistics

5. 2076 trainees as of November 2011 with 43%
of those trainees in provisional training

6. Total members = getting it right?

8. What is good about our program
• Accessible entry
• Flexibility of program
– Part vs full time
– Timing, frequency and quantity of assessment
– Method of meeting assessments – Alternate pathway
– Content of training
• Clear direction on what to learn
– curriculum, textbooks, marking matrix, feedback
• Generous RPL policy
• Relatively flat hierarchy
• Reasonably priced

11. How could we improve the
program?

14. How could we improve the program?
• Make assessment more clinically relevant
– What is assessed
– How it is assessed
– When it is assessed
• Increased role as education provider for
trainees.
– And extending this education to “non-clinical”
areas like teaching and supervision.
• Move to online education and interactions,
where possible.

15. Make assessment more clinically
relevant

16. What is assessed

17. How it is assessed

18. When it is assessed

28. LITFL

29. What about length of training?

30. Personal views of the College
• Genuinely mindful of trainee views
• Willing to listen
• Keen to help
• Natural justice
• Smart people with the right knowledge

31. Thank you’s