Singleton Hospital staff and local GPs were thrilled to have medicine emergency specialists visit their facilities on Friday April 29.
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The specialists visit regional and rural emergency departments (ED) in the Hunter region and beyond to provide learning opportunities for health professionals servicing these emergency departments.
The Emergency Medicine Education & Training (EMET) Outreach program is a federally funded project which has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from medical staff.
Singleton Hospital was lucky enough to partake in an EMET Outreach session in which has been tailor-made to support the medical staff of rural emergency department.
Dr John Paul Smiles and Dr Conrad Loten from the John Hunter Hospital emergency department conducted the training sessions along with clinical nurse educators, Jane Bourke and Robyn Mears.
Dr Smiles says that the program will provide Singleton Hospital ED health professionals with an abundance of useful tools to enrich their emergency skills.
“This program is really important for rural GP’s who don’t always have the resources or necessary training due to their geographical location,” Dr Smiles says.
The program is beneficial for both the rural medical staff and the visiting specialists as issues, queries and ideas are able to be readily discussed.
The importance of team work and efficient communication are also prominent features of the program training, Dr Conrad Loten says.
“It’s about teaching rural and regional medical staff how to deal with an emergency and increasing the communicative skills involved,” he says.
Participants were able to go through a range of medical topics including paediatric fractures and asthma as well as snike bite and trauma scenarios.
The program, which is managed by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, is a one day session that runs for a minimum of six hours.
It is an annual event, improving each year based on the feedback given by the rural participants.
This training comes as a great gain not only for the medical professionals within Singleton but for the community at large.
We look forward to seeing the EMET return in 2017.