Course Accreditation

ETM Course is approved for 22 hours within the 2024 and 2025 CPD years with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Name of Activity: ETM Course
Provider: Emergency Trauma Management
CPD Category: Education Activities
Approved hours: 22 hours

The ACEM Specialist CPD Procedural Skills included in the ETM Course is available here. (PDF)

ACEM college members are required to complete an online evaluation on day 3 of the course. Evaluations will be submitted directly to ACEM. Confirmation of attendance will be submitted to the CPD unit following course completion.

The ETM Course is accredited under the 2026-2028 ACRRM Continuing Professional Development Program.

Activity Title: Emergency Trauma Management Course

Accreditation Cycle: 2026- 2028 Triennium. (Includes previous accreditation cycles)

Code: 39133

CPD Hours: 33.25

• 18.25 Educational Activity
• 15 Performance Review
• Professionalism
• HLR (Anaestheisa)

MOPS Hours

The ETM course meets the requirements for 1 Valid Clinical Skills Training course for Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics and Emergency Response.

Procedural Grant

• Anaesthetics
• Emergency Medicine

Further information is available on the ACRRM website at https://www.acrrm.org.au/.

Participants in the ANZCA and FPM CPD program may claim ETM Course as a Major Haemorrhage Emergency Response Activity in their CPD portfolio. (Recognition code: ER-19-MH-021).

ANZCA fellows may also claim time spent under the Knowledge and skills Short format learning activity at 2 credits per hour – up to 42 credits. Further details are available on the ANZCA website here.

Activity recognition details
Recognition code: ER-19-MH-021
Emergency response activity: Major Haemorrhage

In most hospitals Anaesthetists and Anaesthetic Registrars attend trauma calls and are required to function as part of the trauma team, usually to manage the airway, however, depending on location and staff skill mix, they may be required to team lead the trauma resuscitation. It is therefore important that our anaesthetic colleagues know how to function effectively in an ED team-based resuscitation setting. No other course teaches this.

Anaesthetic-relevant content included in the ETM Course:

• Review and practice trauma airway skills including surgical airway and the Vortex approach to the unanticipated difficult airway
• Learn how to function as a trauma team member and trauma team leader in a non-operating-theatre environment
• Learn resuscitation room management skills
• Update your knowledge on anaesthetic-relevant topics such as vascular access, massive transfusion, damage control surgery and resuscitative thoracotomy

ETM Course is accredited for CPD with the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand.

Activity name: Emergency Trauma Management Course
Lectures: Category 2A Passive Group Learning, 1 point per hour
Small-Group Procedures: Category 2B Interactive Group Learning, 2 points per hour.

A number of dual ED/ICU trainees have attended ETM Course and felt that the course was definitely worthwhile.

We also strongly encourage sole ICU trainees, and Intensivists who want a refresher to come along. ETM Course will help you understand both the ED team roles as well your role when attending the ED to assist in trauma resuscitation.

The ETM Advanced Course is approved for the 2026 CPD year with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Name of Activity: ETM Advanced Course
Provider: Emergency Trauma Management
CPD Category: Education Activities
Health Outcomes: Professionalism
Approved hours: 17 hours and 30 minutes
Procedural Codes: The ACEM Specialist CPD Procedural Skills included in the ETM Advanced Course is available here. (PDF)

ACEM college members are required to complete an online evaluation on day 2 of the course. Evaluations will be submitted directly to ACEM. Confirmation of attendance will be submitted to the CPD unit following course completion.

The ETM Advanced Course is approved with ACRRM for the 2023-2025 and 2026-2028 CPD accreditation cycles.

CPD Hours: 20.50
MOPS Hours: 20.50 (Emergency Medicine)

Please note: This course is also approved for 2 days face to face RPGP (Rural Procedural Grants Program) in Anaesthetics and Emergency Medicine. You can self-claim via the ACRRM website: https://www.acrrm.org.au/support/grants/rpgp.

For more information, please visit the ACCRM website here or contact [email protected].

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP) Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development (QI&CPD) Program supports Australian general practitioners (GPs) to maintain and improve their professional knowledge and skills in order to provide the best possible care for patients and their communities.

RACGP members can self-record attendance at the ETM Advanced Course as a CPD activity at 2 points per hour.

The PTM Course is approved for 22 hours within the 2026 CPD year with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Name of Activity: PTM Course (Paediatric Trauma Management)
Provider: Emergency Trauma Management
CPD Category: Education Activities
Approved hours: 22 hours

ACEM college members are required to complete an online evaluation on day 3 of the course. Evaluations will be submitted directly to ACEM.

Confirmation of attendance will be submitted to the CPD unit following course completion.

The PTM Course is accredited under the ACRRM 2026 - 2028 Continuing Professional Development Framework.

Activity Title: Paediatric Trauma Management Course
Code: 36822

CPD hours: 34.5

• 20 hours Educational Activity
• 14.5 Performance Review
• Professionalism

HLR hours

• HLR (Anaesthesia)
• HLR (Emergency Medicine)

MOPS hours

The PTM course meets the course requirements for 1 Valid Clinical Skills Training course for Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics Emergency Response and AST-Paediatric MOPS.

Curriculum domains

• Respond to medical emergencies

Curriculum learning areas

• Leader (LDR)
• Paediatrics (PAED)
• Procedural skills (PROC)
• Communicator (COM)

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP) Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development (QI&CPD) Program supports Australian general practitioners (GPs) to maintain and improve their professional knowledge and skills in order to provide the best possible care for patients and their communities.

Following attendance at a course, RACGP members can self-record attendance at the PTM Course as a CPD activity at 2 points per hour.