Overview

Pre-Congress Workshops
Professional Skills Day, incorporating Trainee Stream
Adult Medicine Programs
Paediatrics & Child Health

Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Meeting

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The IMSANZ Program on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 May 2008 includes sessions on -

Evidence Based practice in Real Patient Care
Medical Assessment Units
Controversies and Cases
Rural / Regional Session
General Medicine in Perioperative Care
The General Physician in Ambulatory Chronic Disease

The Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to welcome its members, and physicians in general, to its scientific meeting which is being held as a concurrent stream of the RACP Congress, after a successful meeting with the geriatricians in 2007.

As a complement to the Adult Medicine Division stream and to the specialty updates, the Internal Medicine stream this year offers particular focus on the special skills of general physicians, along with opportunities for trainees and physicians to present their own work. The specific sessions will include a seminar and panel discussion on acute medical assessment and management, bringing together the national and international specialists in this particular aspect of general medicine, along with sessions focusing on chronic and ambulatory diseases, perioperative medicine and using evidence based decision making in complex cases with multiple comorbidities.

We are delighted to have a former President of the Society of Acute Medicine in the United Kingdom, Professor Derek Bell, as our keynote speaker to speak on the UK and other international experience in acute medicine, and to contribute to our seminar on medical assessment units in Australia. We look forward to providing a stimulating program for general physicians and the physician colleagues within all our sub-specialties.

IMSANZ Program Keynote Speaker

Derek Bell was appointed as the first Professor of Acute Medicine at Imperial College London, based at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in 2006. He was the inaugural President of the Society for Acute Medicine and has been involved with the Society since its inception. He is very interested in developing Acute Medicine as a specialty and delivering competency based training believing this to be essential to ensure prompt safe and effective care for the acutely unwell patient.

Derek graduated from Edinburgh University in 1980. He initially specialised in Chest and General Medicine with an interest in Intensive Care.  He was appointed as Consultant, Central Middlesex Hospital, London before moving to Edinburgh as a Consultant in Acute Medicine and Chest Medicine.  Setting up Acute Medicine services in Edinburgh allowed him to gain vast experience in this area which has been used to help develop other units in the UK and abroad.

While in Edinburgh he was appointed as Associate Medical Director and latterly as Medical Director for the Acute Operating Division in Lothian.

Derek has worked with the Modernisation Agency as well the Scottish Executive Health Directorate, as the National Clinical Lead for Unscheduled Care. He also serves on several National Committees and is an elected member of council for the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh.

His academic research interests relate to quality and organisation of care, particularly acute medical care, and in the methods of delivery of care. Clinically his interests are illness severity assessment, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia and has published in these areas.

Guest Speaker

Professor Derek Bell

Professor of Acute Medicine, Imperial College, London;
and President of the Society for Acute Medicine.

International Experience in Acute Medicine