The Emergency SA (EMSA) Conference
The Emergency SA (EMSA) Conference is the shared vision of three emergency health professional bodies in South Australia, namely the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) & The Australasian College of Paramedicine (ACP).
Since 2008 these three key professional emergency healthcare bodies in South Australia (ACP, ACEM and CENA) have joined forces to present this outstanding and unique emergency conference.
With each college having many years experience in successful education events, and as a joint group having presented multiple previous EMSA Conferences, we have a shared vision and commitment to:
provide excellent emergency care education;
encourage access to the latest research, practices and equipment;
and to continually strengthen ties across the emergency care community in S.A. and beyond.
EMSA is now held biennially, with the next event scheduled for 2022.
Awards Conrad Williams Prize
The ‘Conrad Williams Prize’ is awarded in honour of the late Dr Conrad Williams, a talented and much loved Emergency Physician who sadly passed away too young. We hope through this prize, his passion for the education of others will live on. Two $750 prizes will be awarded on behalf of the three colleges in Conrad’s honour to the author/s of the best poster and the best free paper. This award will be judged by a representative from each of the three colleges (ACEM, CENA and PA) on relevance to the themes of the conference and emergency healthcare, appearance, content and presentation. The prize must be used for educational or research purposes such as: conference attendance, attendance to a relevant professional course, research grant with ethics approval or as deemed appropriate by the EMSA committee. The prize money will be awarded to the winner when evidence for the intended use has been provided to the Scientific Convenor.
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