The FPM Dean's Prize recognises the FPM fellow or trainee judged to have presented the most original pain medicine/pain research paper, of sufficient standard, at the free papers session of the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting.

All financial members of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) are eligible to both stand for and vote in the annual FPM elections.

Awarded for original work judged to be the best contribution to the FPM free papers session at the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting. 

Meet the agencies, groups, and individuals involved in steering the development of a perioperative medicine qualification.

ANZCA has an experienced communications team that proactively engages with the media to highlight the important work of our anaesthetists and pain specialists. This includes sharing our latest evidence-based research and patient safety initiatives. We also actively encourage m...

Awarded to the ANZCA trainee (or fellow, within one year of fellowship) who is judged to have made the best contribution at the Trainee Academic Session held as part of the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting.

Every year, we make grant funding available through our ANZCA Foundation to investigators undertaking pilot or feasibility studies in anaesthesia, pain or perioperative medicine that may lead to large multi-centre clinical research

We've appointed workplace-based assessment (WBA) leads across Australia and New Zealand to provide WBA education and support to individual departments. In 2019, more than 100 ANZCA training sites participated in a 45-minute workshop delivered by their regional WBA lead.

This pathway is open to FPM fellows and trainees in the PD stage who elect to expand their practice by gaining workplace-based experience in planning, performing and managing pain procedures while working under the supervision of an FPM-accredited procedural supervisor

We answered some common questions about the Specialist Training Program.