POM offers new opportunities for anaesthetists and other medical specialists

16 October 2024

We have a new structure to guide perioperative medicine into the future.

We have recently appointed Dr Vanessa Beavis as our POM Director of Professional Affairs (DPA).
 
A Chapter of Perioperative Medicine Board is to be formed. It will be chaired by ANZCA’s Immediate Past President Dr Chris Cokis and its first meeting will be 31 January 2025.
 
Two POM committees will also be formed, the Education & Assessment Committee to be chaired by A/Prof Joel Symons, and the Advocacy & Policy Committee, to be chaired by Dr Jill Van Acker (chair of the POM SIG).
 
These committees will be critical to the ongoing progress of our Course in Perioperative Medicine and our advocacy activities.
 
Essential to these committees will be the expertise of representatives from the College of Intensivist Care Medicine (CICM), the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and its societies focusing on geriatric and internal medicine, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), and the general practitioners’ colleges, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP).
 
Read the latest on our perioperative medicine activities in Perioperative Medicine Communique.