The Emergency Medicine Education and Training (EMET) Program was established by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) in 2011. The Commonwealth Department of Health funds ACEM to administer the EMET Program as a component of the Specialist Training Program (STP).
The Program aims to boost the quality of and access to emergency care in areas of need, particularly in rural Australia, through the increased provision of emergency medicine education, training and supervision delivered by Fellows of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEMs).
To be eligible to be a hub, a hospital should be:
- a rural hospital, typically the region’s referral hospital, or
- a metropolitan hospital or retrieval service delivering outreach only.
An eligible training site is an emergency care facility with a low FACEM workforce* and/or in a rural location. A training site is typically within the same health jurisdiction as the hub.
*Where FACEM staffing is less than one FTE FACEM per 10,000 presentations.
Please refer to the following documents for your application: