EPM: December Newsletter
Welcome to the December 2017 Essential Pain Management Newsletter. We have information on resources, recent workshops, upcoming events. EPM Governance Following the successful MOU on Trademarking between ANZCA and the WFSA we hope to use this relationship to promote EPM more widely (especially in Africa). A joint approach to publicity, funding, evaluation and delivery of […]
EPM: June 2017 Newsletter
Welcome to the June 2017 Essential Pain Management Newsletter. We have a lot of information for you on new developments, recent workshops and upcoming events. EPM trademark We are pleased to announce that ANZCA has signed a joint trademarking agreement with the World Federation of Society of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). The objective of this partnership framework […]
EPM: December Newsletter
Essential Pain Medicine (EPM) symposium at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Hong Kong report Approximately 150 people attended an EPM symposium on the last day of the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Hong Kong in September. Roger Goucke and Wayne Morriss welcomed participants to the symposium and gave a brief overview of the first six […]
EPM: June 2016 Newsletter
Essential Pain Management Newsletter Welcome to the June edition of the Essential Pain Management Newsletter. We have a lot of information for you on new developments, recent workshops and upcoming events. New Developments Exciting work has been going on since the EPM Planning Workshop in Melbourne in July 2015. Here are just some of the […]
EPM: May 2015 Newsletter
EPM Courses During the last six months EPM courses have been held in a number of countries. As an addition to the EPM newsletter please find a summary below acknowledging the programs and instructors involved, where available we’ve linked to the course reports. Read More
EPM: October 2014 Newsletter
Since our last newsletter courses have been run in Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, the Philippines and Mongolia. EPM has been run in Mongolia since 2010, in conjunction with the Mongolian Society of Anaesthetists (MSA). The MSA now plans to run more courses in major Ulanbatar hospitals and also in the Aimags. It is great […]
EPM: ANZCA Newsletter – Beyond the Pain Barrier, September 2014
A stigma attached to morphine and a general reluctance to acknowledge and be treated for pain makes its management especially difficult in the Philippines. Pain is a global human experience, undiscriminating among individuals and transcending cultures. But the way pain is recognised, assessed and treated can vary wildly. When the Essential Pain Management (EPM) course […]
EPM: May 2014 Newsletter
Welcome to 2014 and the busy year we are planning for EPM. Recent EPM courses So far this year EPM has been delivered in: Hyderabad, India Roger Goucke, Linda Huggins, Lynda De Souza, Murali Joshi, Vijay Palanisamy Yangon, Myanmar Roger Goucke, Amanda Baric, Michelle Chan Read More
EPM: November 2013 Newsletter
Essential Pain Management (EPM) continues to grow and has been delivered in 30 countries worldwide with more than 1683 people having attended and 310 instructors trained. We are pleased that Papua New Guinea, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Central America and Indonesia are now running their own EPM courses. Assessment and evaluation We have collected pre and […]
EPM: June 2013 Newsletter
Since the inception of Essential Pain Management (EPM) and the first program in Lae, Papua New Guinea, in 2010, 19 countries have hosted EPM programs, training more than 1433 participants and 292 local instructors. Thirty-two external instructors have been trained to deliver the program and a further 32 have expressed interest. It is a good […]