ANZCA Council meeting update - December 2024

17 January 2025

Read a report of the ANZCA Council meeting held on 6 - 7 December 2024 in Melbourne.

At the Council Open Session, the Training and Accreditation Committee Chair, Dr Mark Young provided an update on current accreditation matters, Dr Michael Steyn provided an update about future considerations and implications of the expedited specialist international medical graduate (SIMG) pathway and Dr Archana Shrivathsa presented to council on the activities of the Environmental Sustainability Network (ESN).

Information about ANZCA Council and its committees can be found here.

2026 annual scientific meeting (ASM)

Council approved the appointment of Professor Irene Tracey as the 2026 ANZCA ASM Visitor and noted the 2026 ANZCA ASM Australasian Visitor, Professor Alicia Dennis and 2026 ASM New Zealand Visitor, Professor Tim Walsh. The 2026 ASM is being held in Auckland, New Zealand. 

Education and research

Governance documents  

Council approved amendments to the following training handbooks and regulations:

  • Diving Hyperbaric Medicine training handbook and Regulation 36.
  • Perioperative Medicine (POM) course training handbook and Regulation 45.
  • SIMG training handbook and Regulation 23.
  • ANZCA Anaesthesia Training Program Handbook and Regulation 37.
  • Rural Generalist Anaesthesia handbook for training  and Regulation 44.

Chapter of Perioperative Medicine

Council noted the terms of reference for the two committees that will report to the board of the Chapter of Perioperative Medicine.
 

Professional documents

PG47 Guideline on training and practice of perioperative diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound

Council approved the new ANZCA professional document PG47 Perioperative diagnostic POCUS and accompanying background paper (PG47BP) for piloting for a four-month pilot period (12 weeks).

Anaphylaxis guideline

Council approved the development of a new professional document on perioperative anaphylaxis management.
 

Workforce

Council noted the workforce reform landscape continues to get increasingly more complicated with several new workforce reforms announced or commenced in the past two weeks. ANZCA continues to engage in these reforms, noting it is taking significant resources and time, and many of the reforms and who/which body is leading them seem to be overlapping at times.

Investment strategy review

Council approved changes to the ANZCA investment strategy following options presented by the college’s investment managers JANA in relation to the college’s three investment funds.
The JANA review specifically looked at:

  • Design parameters of each fund, for example, return objective; risk tolerance and liquidity requirements.

Strategic asset allocation, that is, the classes of assets the college would invest in and the percentage  allocation to each asset class. The result of the review was that the college would remain in the same asset classes however there would be some changes in the weighting between classes to reflect the required risk, return and liquidity profiles of each fund.


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