The Alfred Hospital Emergency & Trauma Centre and Monash University - Emergency medicine education and training programs for health professionals and students

Melbourne, Victoria
Small injuries. Big opportunities to build your confidence. 🩹 Today is the Minor Injury & Illness in the ED Nursing Course (MInIED) at The Alfred Hospital. Designed for nurses working in Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centres, this one-day workshop combines practical learning and case discussions to strengthen assessment, clinical decision-making and hands-on care. From wound care and minor burns to splinting and mobility aids, develop skills you can take straight back to your workplace. 🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/MiniED #EmergencyNursing #UrgentCare #NursingEducation #AEAC
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Build confidence in the critical first moments of trauma care. The Critical Trauma Nursing Course is a one-day, practical program for nurses who want to strengthen their trauma assessment, management and teamwork skills. Through realistic scenarios and guided skills stations, you’ll practise primary surveys, RSI assistance, safe log rolling, chest drain management, massive transfusion principles and more. You’ll also take an exclusive guided walk-through of The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre. Designed for nurses across metropolitan, regional and rural settings, including non-trauma hospitals. 📆 Next course: 24th November. 🔗 To find out more and register use the link bit.ly/TraumaNurse #CriticalTraumaNursing #EmergencyNursing #TraumaCare #NursingEducation
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The RUCN team is expanding its learning opportunities, with our first triage workshop underway in Camperdown this week! Learners from seven different urgent care centres across the Barwon South West region are developing skills in the fundamentals of triage, including recognising red flags and clinical deterioration, and applying critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make timely decisions that support safe, effective patient care. A great opportunity to build clinical confidence, share knowledge and strengthen triage capability across our rural urgent care workforce. #RUCN #RuralHealth #UrgentCare #TriageEducation #NursingEducation
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What can we learn from #paediatric deaths in the emergency department? 🚑 This commentary by @Biswadev_M @EmergEdu highlights important considerations for managing these rare but distressing events 🔗 bit.ly/44WZBVS #ChildHealth #EmergencyCare
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The Procedures Course is underway in Melbourne today, helping emergency and critical care clinicians build confidence in essential resuscitative procedures. Using cadavers, participants are practising skills including surgical airway, pleural decompression, vascular access, resuscitative thoracotomy and hysterotomy. Practical training for the moments when these skills matter most. #Melbourne #EmergencyMedicine #CriticalCare #Trauma #MedicalEducation
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Today, Nurse Practitioners took part in a hands-on afternoon of learning, building practical skills for emergency and urgent care settings. Designed by NPs, for NPs, the Nurse Practitioner Advanced Skills Course combines case-based learning, demonstrations and supervised practical training. 📆 Registrations are now open for March. 🔗 Find out more and book your place: bit.ly/4jBR7fy
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A morning of hands-on learning at the Nurse Practitioner Advanced Skills Course today, with participants practising suturing techniques under expert guidance. Delivered by the Alfred Emergency Academic Centre, this one-day workshop supports Nurse Practitioners to build practical skills and confidence for emergency and urgent care settings. #AEAC #NursePractitioner #Nursing #NursingEducation #Suturing
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The Rural Urgent Care Nursing Program is in Mt Macedon this week with nurses from across Victoria. The team are delivering a Clinical Support and Education workshop to increase education capacity locally. We were joined by Emma Saddington, Chief Nurse Officer, and Corrine Wells, Senior Project Officer frow the Department of Health Victoria. #RUCN #AlfredHealth #AEAC #UrgentCare #MtMacedon
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Practical learning, right where care happens. Today, our Rural Urgent Care Nursing team is at Warracknabeal Urgent Care Centre for bedside teaching with the nursing team. By bringing learning into the clinical setting, the sessions connect with the realities of UCC practice and support nurses to build their skills, confidence and knowledge for the important work they do in their community. It’s been a pleasure spending time with the Warracknabeal team. Thank you for the warm welcome!
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🚨🩺 Emergency Nurses Day Discount 🩺🚨 To say thank you to the nurses who keep EDs and Urgent Care Centres running, we’re offering 50% off the Minor Injury & Illness in the ED Nursing Course (MInIED) until Sunday. This one-day, in-person workshop is built for nurses working in fast-paced ambulatory care, and it will help you: ✅ Work confidently and autonomously within your scope for minor injury and illness presentations ✅ Assess and manage common presentations using a structured, safe and efficient approach ✅ Build hands-on skills you can use on your next shift, including wound care, minor burns management and safe fitting of mobility aids Backed by targeted pre-reading and online learning, MInIED strengthens your clinical decision-making and supports high-quality, efficient care as service demand grows. 📆 2nd Nov 2026 👉 Book now: bit.ly/MiniED 🏷️ Use code 'EDNURSE_50' at checkout #EmergencyNursesDay #EmergencyNursing #NursingEducation #UrgentCare #MInIED
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DevelopingEM is heading to Saint Lucia next month, and we can’t wait to see you there! DevelopingEM 2026 brings together emergency clinicians, nurses, trainees, and educators from across the Caribbean and around the world. Expect practical skills you can take straight back to your department, taught by international and Caribbean faculty. 🩺 Workshops across ultrasound, ECG, trauma, paediatrics, critical care, and more 🤝 Global networking and collaboration ✅ ACEM approved CPD activities 👉developingem.com #DevelopingEM2026 #EmergencyMedicine #CriticalCare #SaintLucia #MedEd
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Registrations are now open for Prato 2027! Join us in Tuscany this September and choose from two specialist emergency medicine programs at the Monash University Prato Campus. Emergency Department Leadership Course 📆 6–10 September 2027 🎟️ bit.ly/EDL26 Trauma Masterclass Course 📆 7–10 September 2027 🎟️ bit.ly/Trauma26 Learn, connect and sharpen your practice alongside international faculty and emergency clinicians from around the world. Places are limited, register now. #EmergencyMedicine #Trauma #HealthcareLeadership #MedicalEducation #Prato2027 #AEAC #Prato
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When the ED is busy, confident minor injury and illness care matters. MInIED is designed to help nurses build the assessment, decision-making and practical skills needed to manage common presentations safely and efficiently. With a focus on real-world emergency and urgent care practice, the course supports nurses working in fast-paced ambulatory care environments. 📆 2 November 2026 🎟️ Register via the link: bit.ly/MiniED #EmergencyNursing #UrgentCare #NursingEducation #MInIED #AlfredEmergency
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Looking to build your ultrasound skills in 2026? AEAC has two practical, hands-on ultrasound courses designed for clinicians at different stages of their training. Our Early Pregnancy Ultrasound Course focuses on trans-abdominal scanning, confirming intrauterine pregnancy, recognising first-trimester complications and understanding when transvaginal scanning may be required. Our POCUS Course is designed for experienced FACEMs looking to strengthen competency across AAA, EFAST, FELS and lung ultrasound, with optional summative assessments available. Both courses combine expert teaching, practical skills stations and clinically relevant learning you can take straight back to practice. Find out more and register via the link: alfredemergency.org/courses #Ultrasound #POCUS #EarlyPregnancy #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalEducation #FACEM #AlfredEmergency
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Less theory. More skills you can actually use on your next shift. Our Minor Injury & Illness in the ED Nursing Course combines targeted online learning with a full day of practical, face-to-face education. From wound care and burns to minor injury assessment and mobility aids, MInIED focuses on the presentations nurses regularly see in ambulatory and urgent care settings. 📆 2 November 2026 🎟️ Register via the link: bit.ly/MiniED #EmergencyNursing #ClinicalEducation #MInIED #UrgentCare #AlfredEmergency
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DevelopingEM 2026 is coming to Saint Lucia! From 14–19 November 2026, join emergency clinicians, nurses, educators and healthcare leaders from across the Caribbean and around the world for a week of learning, collaboration and connection. Expect a world-class scientific program, hands-on workshops, international and Caribbean faculty, ACEM-approved CPD activities and plenty of opportunities to connect with the global emergency care community. 📍 Saint Lucia 📆 14–19 November 2026 🎟️ Registration is now open: developingem.com Workshop places are limited, so register early to secure your preferred sessions. #DevelopingEM #DevelopingEM2026 #EmergencyMedicine #EmergencyNursing #MedicalEducation #SaintLucia
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Learn it. Practise it. Take it back to your next shift. MInIED puts practical skills at the centre of the day, giving nurses the opportunity to build confidence in managing the minor injuries and illnesses commonly seen in Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centres. From wound care and burns to injury assessment and mobility aids, the focus is on skills that translate directly into clinical practice. 📆 2 November 2026 🎟️ Register via the link: bit.ly/MiniED #EmergencyNursing #ClinicalSkills #NursingEducation #MInIED #AlfredEmergency
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Minor injuries. Minor illnesses. Major impact on a busy ED. Build the confidence and practical skills to assess and manage common minor presentations safely and efficiently with our Minor Injury & Illness in the ED Nursing Course (MInIED). 📆 2 November 2026 🎟️ In person This one-day course is designed for nurses working in Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centres, with hands-on learning in: • Minor injury assessment and management • Evidence-based wound care • Minor burns • Mobility aids Perfect for nurses already working in, or moving into, minor injury and illness care pathways. 🔗 Register via the link: bit.ly/MiniED #EmergencyNursing #NursingEducation #UrgentCare #MInIED #AlfredEmergency
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🎟️ Global Emergency & Critical Care Conference! 📆 15th–16th September Whether you work at the bedside, lead a service, contribute to health policy or are involved in global health projects, this is an opportunity to hear different perspectives, challenge your thinking and take practical ideas and new connections back to your own work. Clinicians, health leaders and policymakers will come together in Melbourne and online to explore how the WHO ECO Care Strategy can move from global strategy to practical, sustainable action. Join the conversation and be part of shaping stronger, better connected emergency and critical care across the Asia-Pacific. 🔗 To attend in person/online register now: bit.ly/GECCC
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Global Emergency & Critical Care Conference 2026 How do we turn global emergency care strategy into practical, sustainable action across the Asia-Pacific? On 15–16 September, clinicians, health leaders and policymakers will come together in Melbourne and online to explore how the WHO Emergency, Critical and Operative (ECO) Care Strategy can be translated into stronger, better connected care. Choose from the Capacity Building in Global Emergency Care Workshop, the Global Emergency & Critical Care Symposium, or attend both. 📆15–16 September 2026 In person: Melbourne | Online: Virtual attendance available 🔗Register now: bit.ly/GECCC
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