At ACEM’s Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) in Adelaide across 24-28 November 2024, ACEM President FACEM Dr Stephen Gourley presented Jacqueline Gibson-Roos with an Honorary Fellowship of the College.
All tagged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Traumatology Talks: Continuing the conversation
The national Traumatology Talks Working Group within ACEM is exploring how social emergency care can be integrated into emergency medicine in Australia and what all emergency medical professionals can do to help improve the care of Indigenous patients.
The Voice is an important part of reconciliation for Australia
“How can we continue to make decisions about the health and welfare of Indigenous people without their strong voice in the room?” writes ACEM President-Elect Dr Stephen Gourley. “If we are going to get better decisions and make real positive change, then we need to change what we are doing.”
Identity, social justice and Voice
“It was in the same dust with the other excluded kids outside the classroom that I grew to understand I lived in a segregated community,” writes Sam Beattie, nurse practitioner and proud Ngunnawal/Dhudhuroa/Wurundjeri woman. “I became a nurse as an act of social justice.”
Tracing ACEM’s steps towards Reconciliation
Inaugural Chair of ACEM’s Indigenous Health Working Group and Subcommittee, Dr Elizabeth Mowatt, discusses ACEM’s journey towards Reconciliation, and her hopes for the College to continue helping establish cultural safety and equity in healthcare by listening to and working with Aboriginal people and communities.
First Aboriginal-led emergency department shift in Cairns
Aboriginal leadership in the emergency department has benefits for patients – and for broader community. “We have the answers,” says Ngarrindjeri man and nursing team leader, Jeremy Rigney. “We know what Mob need.”
Trainee works to address frequent attendances in Mparntwe
Dr Sophie Collins, the first Trainee to undertake ACEM’s Specialist Skills Placement (SSP) in Indigenous Health, has seen first-hand the ongoing effects of colonialism on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.