Library resource guides: Pain medicine training resources: Post-training resources

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Overview

Starting out

Conceptual basis of pain medicine

Journals & articles Essential Topic Areas (ETAs)

Roles in practice

Assessment

Courses

Books & e-books Books & journals

Podcasts & online lectures

Apps

Social networking & support

Post-training resources

Cultural safety

Fellowship

A large number of resources are available to support both fellows and the wider anaesthetic specialist community.

ANZCA & FPM fellowship: Member benefits
ANZCA is the professional membership organisation for more than 6000 specialist anaesthetists and 460 specialist pain medicine physicians who've met our rigorous training or assessment requirements to become a fellow.

Your membership gives you access to a wide range of resources, opportunities, and services - including full library access - specially designed to support you professionally and personally throughout your career and into retirement.

Australian Pain Society: Benefits of Membership
The APS offers an important forum for interested health care workers to discuss the increasingly complex issues relating to the management of pain. Your active participation will give you the opportunity to develop valuable professional contacts.

Continuing professional development (CPD)

All specialist anaesthetists and specialist pain medicine physicians are required to participate in a continuing professional development (CPD) program.

ANZCA and FPM CPD Program
Access to ANZCA's world-leading online CPD program is free for fellows, and available to other registered medical practitioners for an annual fee.
ANZCA and FPM CPD Program Resources Library Guide
The purpose of this guide is to assist fellows to locate information and resources relevant to their CPD activities, including those resources available through the ANZCA library. The target audience is those with clinical roles.
ANZCA: CPD for Clinical Support Roles Library Guide
The purpose of this resources guide is to assist fellows to match CPD activities with the nature of the work roles that they undertake. The target audience is those with clinical support roles alongside their work with patients and those who practice without direct patient care.

Australian Pain Society: Resources
The APS offers numerous resources including position papers, fact sheets, publications, a facility spreadsheet, surveys, research, consumer information and links.

Professional development hub

This hub has been designed for ANZCA and FPM CPD Program participants - as well as other medical professionals - to identify resources suitable for keeping up-to-date with current research in the area of anaesthesia and pain medicine.

ANZCA: Professional Development Resources Hub
Access information and resources to help you with your professional development, including specialist guides designed for ANZCA's CPD Program.
ANZCA: Pain Medicine Resources Hub
This hub has been designed for pain medicine fellows, trainees, and any medical professionals interested in resources for keeping up-to-date with current research in the area of pain medicine.

Specialist interest groups (SIGs)

Anaesthesia Continuing Education (ACE) is a partnership between ANZCA, the Australian Society of Anaesthetists and the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists.

Anaesthesia Continuing Education (ACE)
ACE was established to promote and co-ordinate combined continuing medical education activities in anaesthesia and related disciplines. It manages 17 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that allow anaesthetists and others to study, report and develop educational events in specific areas of anaesthesia (including Acute Pain).

Special interest group hub

This hub brings together resources related to the ACE Special Interest Groups., including those resources available through the ANZCA library.

ANZCA: Acute Pain Library Guide
This guide has been designed to provide information and resources related to acute pain, including those available through the ANZCA library

Course completion information

FPM: Admission to Faculty Membership
There are three ways to become a fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FFPMANZCA).
ANZCA: Information for new FPM fellows
This covers everything you need to know as a new fellow, from being presented at the college ceremony and finding your regional representative to building your professional networks.

Registration

Information concerning medical registration in Australia and New Zealand (Aotearoa).

Ahpra - Medical Board of Australia: Registration
The Medical Board of Australia is responsible for regulating medical practitioners practising in Australia. Australian medical students and doctors seeking to practise medicine in Australia must be registered with the Medical Board.
Medical Council of New Zealand - Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa: Getting registered
If you wish to practise medicine in New Zealand you must first gain registration from us. To do this, you must show us that you are qualified, competent and fit for registration.

Medical indemnity insurance

In Australia, it is compulsory for all registered health professionals to hold medical indemnity insurance under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009.

Ahpra - Medical Board of Australia: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements
All health practitioners who undertake any form of practice in their respective profession(s) must have professional indemnity insurance (PII) arrangements that comply with the relevant registration standard, for all aspects of their practice.

ANZCA & FPM professional documents

Recommended professional documents are listed below. The full suite of ANZCA & FPM professional documents can be accessed via the college page.

ANZCA: Professional documents and statements
Our professional documents, statements and guidelines are crucial for promoting the safety and quality of patient care for those undergoing anaesthesia for surgical and other procedures and for those receiving pain medicine treatment.

PS11(PM): Procedures in Pain Medicine Clinical Care Standard by Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists The goal of the Procedures in Pain Medicine Clinical Care Standard is to articulate what is considered to be the appropriate and safe use of procedures in the practice of pain medicine.
Publication Date: 2020