QASM workshops and seminars
Future events
There are no planned events as yet for 2025.
Past events
QASM Seminar, Friday 27th October,Surgical challenges and the vulnerable patient – exploring support for these scenarios - Watch here
Webinar One Dr Emilia Dauway, Timefulness: expanding time from a surgeon's perspective - Watch here
Webinar Two Dr John Copp, The Importance of Good Follow up with Bariatric Patients - Watch here
Presentations from:
Dr Sally Langley, RACS President, Dr Chiara Santomauro, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Griffith University, Dr Juanita Muller, Vascular Surgeon, Dr Terence Chua, General Surgeon
Non-technical skills in the management of complex surgical environments - Afternoon masterclass
Presentations from:
Dr Nathan Brunott, General Surgeon, Dr William Butcher, Vascular Surgeon, Dr David Sainsbury, Anaesthetist, Dr Chiara Santomauro, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Griffith University
Webinar One Dr Emilia Dauway, Timefulness: expanding time from a surgeon's perspective - Watch here (MP4 436.84MB)
Webinar Two Dr Leong Tan, Cervical collars in older patients - Watch here (MP4 100.02MB)
Webinar Three Dr Peter Coverdale, Clinical decision making - Watch here
Webinar Four Dr Juanita Muller, Preparing vascular patients for NO surgery - Watch here
Webinar Five Dr Adam Parr, Transfer of patients with cervical fractures - Watch here
QASM Seminar, Thursday 18 November 2021, Surgery - timing is everything
QASM Seminar, Thursday 26 November 2020, Clinical Decision Making - How can we do better?
View the seminar presentations playlist.
QASM Webinar series, 12 June 2020 - 24 July 2020, Steps to improving safety, quality and patient outcomes
What is required to make Trauma Care safe in a private facility? Professor Michael Schuetz, Director, Jamieson Trauma Institute; Chair of Trauma, QUT; Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RBWH
Learning from the Data: Quality and Safety in Surgery at Greenslopes Private Hospital Dr Alison Smith, Senior Medical Officer, Greenslopes Private Hospital
“It’s the Culture… Stupid”! Dr Brian McGowan, Director of Surgery, Logan Hospital, Currently seconded to Healthcare Improvement Unit (HIU), Clinical Excellence Queensland
Quality assurance in cardiac surgery Dr Bruce Garlick, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital
Preventing post-surgical infection, preventing post-surgical mortality Michael Wishart, Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside
An example of a hospital’s approach to improving safety and quality Dr Michael Gillman, Executive Director Medical Services, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital
Making Safety and Quality the top priority in Decision Making – does the surgeon need assistance? Dr Bernadette Eather, National Manager of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Ramsay Health Care
QASM Seminar, Friday 18 October 2019, Distance, Delays and Deterioration - improving surgical care in regional Queensland
Seminar program (PDF 125.98KB) - please send email request for required presentations to [email protected]
QASM Seminar, Friday 2 November 2018, Infections in surgical patients
Seminar program (PDF 871.15KB) - please send email request for required presentations to [email protected] (PDF 871.15KB)
QASM Seminar, Friday 10 November 2017, "Captain of the ship? A surgeon's role in safety and quality"
Seminar program (PDF 291.51KB) - please send email request for required presentations to [email protected]
QASM Seminar, Friday 18 November 2016, "The elderly surgical patient - evidence based practice"
Seminar program (PDF 397.56KB)- please send email request for required presentations to [email protected]
QASM Seminar, Friday 13 November 2015, "Surgery and the obese patient"
Seminar program (PDF 73.54KB) - please send email request for required presentations to [email protected]
QASM Seminar, Friday 7 November 2014, "Situational awareness and the surgeon"
Seminar program (PDF 245.91KB) - please send email request for required presentations to [email protected]
QASM Seminar, Friday 15 November 2013, "QASM adverse event - systems or surgeons?"
Seminar program (PDF 73.54KB) - please send email request for required presentations to [email protected]
QASM Seminar, Friday 9 November 2012, "Complex decision making in modern practices"
QASM Seminar, Friday 11 November 2011, "Queensland surgical dilemmas: distance, delays and deteriorating patients"