Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Paediatric emergency paediatricians (PEPs), though a small group within the overall medical profession, play a key role in ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of children within our society. This also includes meeting the psychosocial needs of these children. A key aspect of the PEPs’ role is coordinating the full range of health care professionals, and associated service providers, in their treatment and care of medical and surgical emergencies in paediatrics. PEPs also play a key educative role in health promotion and public awareness within both the medical and general communities. PEPs may also be required to offer expert medico-legal opinion. The importance of the specialty’s role is also evidenced by the requirement of a higher level of seniority and number of PEPs to adequately and safely staff emergency departments.

Minimum Time to Completion: 7 years

Details

How to Apply

Eligibility Requirements

You must be:

Registered as an Advanced trainee with either ACEM or RACP (the ‘parent College’) for the purpose of undertaking your initial specialist training (concurrent registration with both Colleges is not required), or
A Fellow of ACEM (FACEM), or
A Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).

Application Process

RACP pathway:

Apply for Paediatric Emergency Medicine here via the Advanced Training Program “Apply or re-register” tab and complete the Stage 2 PEM Enrolment Form here.

ACEM pathway:

Apply for Paediatric Emergency Medicine here and complete the Stage 2 or Stage 3 PEM Enrolment Form here as applicable.

Program Structure

Refer to outline from ACEM here.

Requirements:

	ACEM Trainee Requirements	RACP Trainee Requirements
Stage 1	12 months Provisional Training in an Adult/Mixed Emergency Medicine Pass the Primary Exam	36 months Basic Training Pass FRACP Part 1 (written and clinical exams)
Stage 2	12 months paediatric medicine 18 months paediatric emergency medicine 6 months Paediatric ICU 12-24 months^ adult EM Fulfil Trainee Research Requirement Pass Fellowship Exam On completion of this stage, achieves ACEM Fellowship and a letter confirming completion of Stage 2 training ACEM Pathway. ^Dependent upon the amount of adult emergency medicine training a trainee completes during their Provisional Training phase. A minimum of 24 months adult emergency medicine training must be completed to receive FACEM and Stage 2 Letter of Completion.	12 months Adult Emergency Medicine Training 18 months Paediatric Emergency Medicine Training 6 months Paediatric ICU Development & Psychosocial training Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course Logbook (Adult EM Procedures) Research requirement On completion of this stage, achieves RACP Fellowship and a letter confirming completion of Stage 2 training RACP Pathway.
Stage 3	*OPTIONAL* 12 months paediatric medicine Pass FRACP Part 1 (written and clinical exams) Complete Developmental & Pyschosocial requirements including 6 months mandatory training and RACP research projects On completion of this stage, receives a Dual Fellowship with ACEM & RACP

Fees

Annual Fee:

As per parent college

Exam Fee:

As per parent college

Annual Fee

As per parent college

Fellowship fees

As per parent college

Useful Resources / Courses / Conferences

Dual Paediatric-Emergency training options

RACP Paediatric Emergency training overview

Paediatric Emergency Medicine advanced training curriculum

Paediatric Emergency Medicine advanced training framework

Key Information

PGY Intake Year (earliest)

PGY2 (RACP), PGY3 (ACEM)

Training Duration (minimum)

6 years FTE (RACP), 5 years FTE (ACEM)

General Progression

Note that this represents one of the quickest routes to specialty training, and may not reflect additional HMO or unaccredited years of training.

Year 1

Internship

Year 2

BPT1 (RACP) or General year (with ED experience) (ACEM)

Year 3

BPT2 (RACP) or Commence ACEM provisional training (ACEM)

Year 4

BPT3 (RACP) or Commence joint college advanced training year 1 of 4 (ACEM)

Year 5

Commence AT in paediatric emergency/joint college training year 1 of 3 (RACP) or continue joint college advanced training year 2 of 4 (ACEM)

Part Time Option: Yes

Last Updated: March 1, 2023

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