Teach, inspire, lead as an EMST instructor

26 June 2024

Are you a trained Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) instructor? If so, our colleagues at RACS would love to hear from you!

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) runs a range of high-quality skills courses for surgeons and allied health professionals. These courses are run by a well-respected multidisciplinary faculty who are passionate about education and training and give their time pro bono to share their knowledge, skills and experience.

They’re currently looking for people to join the team for their EMST course, especially people who are already trained EMST instructors but who are not currently active on the faculty.

What is EMST?

EMST is internationally recognised as equivalent to Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®). The course teaches a systematic, concise approach to the care of a trauma patient, providing a safe and reliable method for immediate management of injured patients in the first one to two hours following injury.

The course has a broad appeal, being mandatory for trainees across disciplines including surgery, general practice, anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.

If you work in trauma and want to raise your profile, share your skills, and earn CPD hours (EMST major haemorrhage recognition code: ER-24-MH-888), find out what it takes to be an EMST instructor.

If you’ve been an EMST instructor before, you can skip the training and get straight back to teaching. Get in touch.

Join the team

You can find out more and contact RACS to signal your interest.