Capacity Building in Global Emergency Care

Empower yourself in Global Emergency Care through our Capacity Building course. Designed for current and future GEC practitioners, enhance skills to operate effectively in resource-limited settings

Registration

Date

Semester 2 - July 21 to October 26, 2025

Mode

Online

Format

Postgraduate Course

This course will equip emergency care practitioners with the knowledge and skills to develop, deliver and evaluate safe and effective GEC capacity building programs in collaboration with local partners.

Participants undertaking this course will acquire a specialist and unique skill-set which enables them to contribute to or lead the development of emergency care services (hospital emergency department and prehospital emergency services), emergency workforces (supporting the development of urgently required, specialist clinical and non-clinical staff) and establishing systems and networks which provide emergency healthcare where it is desperately needed.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Career Medical Officers (CMOs)
Emergency Medicine trainees and clinicians
Emergency Nurses and Nurse Practitioners
Medical professionals responsible for emergency care in developing regions
Senior health administrators

DATES:

12 July 2024 - 26 October 2025 REGISTRATIONS OPENING SOON

This course will be delivered online. The compulsory workshop will be delivered as a hybrid model – online and remotely.

The Capacity Building in Global Emergency Care (CBGEC) course is a semester long university program.

The course is designed as a multi-modal program to leverage the accessibility and convenience of online learning, whilst maintaining the value of live, face-to-face (either virtual or in-space) learning. The content will include essential reading, video and podcast recordings. There are weekly interactive online tasks and several assignments to be completed.

Specifically, this course is delivered over twelve weeks of multi-modal study, covering eleven module topics. Learning content is delivered predominantly online, plus a single block period (the Capacity Building in Global Emergency Care Workshop) of ten hours. Workshop activities provide students with structured opportunities to practice the skills acquired via this course, as well as on opportunity to translate their learning into real-word scenarios.

This course can either be completed as a standalone certificate, or as one unit towards the Master of Public Health with Monash University.

This will be confirmed as soon as possible. Please contact etc@alfred.org.au if you have any questions.

Students are required to:

Undertake ~4 hours of online study per week.
Attend the Global Emergency Care Workshop
Complete interactive online tasks and discussions.
Complete essential reading, video, and podcast resources.
Complete postgraduate level assessment.

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of the definition and role of global emergency care and how emergency care is linked to global health priorities and activities.
Summarise the status of emergency care globally.
Outline the principles of capacity development and effective partnership and appreciate the ethical challenges associated with global health collaborations and experiences.
Outline an approach to conducting a needs assessment of emergency care in a resource- limited context.
Develop a project framework for delivering an emergency care capacity development project in a resource-limited context.
Develop a monitoring and evaluation plan for an emergency care capacity development project in a resource-limited context.
Develop a relevant research question for a global emergency care setting.
Outline the principles of effective teaching and training in cross-cultural and resource-limited settings.
Outline the health-related priorities for emergency care system disaster preparedness in a resource-limited environment.
Demonstrate an increased level of preparedness to undertake a field-based role for a global emergency care capacity development project.
Demonstrate an understanding of how global structures of race, gender, class, politics, socioeconomics and climate change impact on and intersect with health and emergency care systems.

REGISTRATION FEES

Medical participants working in high and upper-middle income countries

AUD $3500.00 +GST

Nursing participants working in high and upper-middle income countries

AUD $1750.00 +GST

Medical participants working in lower-middle and low income countries

AUD $1750.00 +GST

Nursing participants working in lower-middle and low income countries

AUD $875.00 +GST

To see which group you belong to, please click on the following

SCHOLARSHIPS

We strongly encourage nursing and medical professionals from lower-middle and low-income countries to apply for a scholarship. If you are interested in applying for a scholarship, kindly click here. The deadline for applications is Wednesday 26 June 2025 at 11.59pm AEST.

REFUND POLICY

Substitution:

If, after booking an event you are unable to attend, you are welcome to nominate someone else to attend in your place. Please advise substitutions via email so a correct name tag will be available at the registration desk. CPD hours will be allocated to the substitute delegate.

Refunds:

Cancellation more than 30 days before the event: 70% refund. Cancellation less than 30 days before the event: no refund, cancellation must be in writing.

Please note, when you register you will be agreeing to the following:

DISCLAIMERS:

Unfortunately, in very rare cases due to clinical demand or other unforeseen, unavoidable reason, courses may need to be cancelled. In this instance registrants will be advised urgently and will receive a full refund for registration fees.
The content of this course is directed at (appropriately licensed and trained) medical practitioners. It represents current information about the provision of emergency care. It is not intended to replace, and should not be construed as, medical advice. Any concerns regarding a medical diagnosis or treatment should be directed to a medical practitioner.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Is it compulsory to attend the Workshop?

Yes. Failure to attend will result in non-completion of the course. Students should request this day off from their employer. Students please refer to the dates provided on the website.

Can I access the online course content prior to the course commencement date?

No. The online course content is only available to those registered students from the first day the course commences. It is important that students try logging into the system from day one to check they have no access issues.

I am an International Student am I eligible to enrol into this course?

This course is open to domestic and international students. The course is currently delivered entirely online, so students just need access to a computer and an internet connection to take part.

Is there a fee discount available for students applying from a LMIC?

Students applying from LMICs may be eligible for a discount on our course fees. Please contact the Course Administrator at aeac.edu@alfred.org.au for further information.

Does this course count towards the Master of Public Health?

Yes. Successful completion of the CBGEC course contributes six credit points towards the Master of Public Health with Monash University.

I am trying to sign up to the course however I notice “0 available” on the website, does this mean I am unable to register for this course?

Yes, it means all the places have been filled. You can email us (aeac.edu@alfred.org.au) to be placed on the waiting list and you will notified if a place becomes available or when the next course opens for registration.

Is this course suitable for me?

CBGEC is suitable for all clinicians who deliver emergency care in any setting, whether a big metropolitan hospital, the smallest rural clinic, and everywhere in between, in Australia and internationally.

We have students from a variety of training backgrounds and levels including:

• Career Medical Officers (CMOs)

• Emergency Medicine trainees and clinicians

• Emergency Nurses and Nurse Practitioners

• Medical professionals responsible for emergency care in developing regions

• Senior health administrators

Is the course accredited for CPD?

Yes. CBGEC is approved by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and accredited by Australian College of Rural Remote Medicine for CPD.

Faculty

A/Prof Gerard O’Reilly

A/Prof Gerard O’Reilly is a senior Emergency Physician and Head of Global Programs at the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the National Trauma Research Institute, and Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Dr Rob Mitchell

Rob Mitchell (@robdmitchell) is an academic emergency physician at the Alfred Hospital Emergency & Trauma Centre; Chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Global Emergency Care Committee; and faculty for the Monash University/Alfred Health Capacity Building in Global Emergency Care program. He is involved with emergency care capacity development projects across the Indo-Pacific, including the Regional Emergency and Critical Care Systems Strengthening Initiative (RECSI), funded by the Australian Government through the Partnerships for a Healthy Region initiative. In 2024, he completed a PhD focussed on emergency care systems in low- and middle-income countries, and was the recipient of a Premier’s Award for health services research.

Dr Georgina Phillips

Dr Georgina Phillips has worked at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne for more than 25 years, with special interest in clinical excellence and research for patients with complex psychosocial issues. Since 1996 as an Australian Volunteer doctor in Kiribati, Georgina has had ongoing involvement in emergency care capacity development in the Asia-Pacific region, including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Fiji, Timor-Leste and Myanmar.

Dr Jennifer Jamieson

Dr Jennifer Jamieson is an emergency physician and trauma specialist, and is the current Deputy Director of the Trauma at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania. She helped establish Tasmania's first trauma admitting service at the RHH and is particularly passionate about bringing trauma education & public health projects to Tasmania, including Trauma Team Training and the PARTY program. Jenny has previously worked with the Alfred Trauma service in Victoria, with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She has a number of roles within the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, including being the current deputy-chair for the Global Emergency Care Committee, and the Advancing Women in Emergency Medicine executive. She is also the recent co-editor and co-creator of the book "When Minutes Matter."