QASM workshops and seminars

There are no planned events as yet for 2025.

 

QASM seminar – Friday 27 October 2023

 

Surgical challenges and the vulnerable patient – exploring support for these scenarios

 

QASM Connects webinar series 2023

 

Webinar one: Dr Emilia Dauway –Timefulness: expanding time from a surgeon's perspective

Webinar two: Dr John Copp – The Importance of Good Follow up with Bariatric Patients

 

Human factors and safety in surgical patients – Friday 18 November 2022

 

Human factors and safety in surgical patients – morning session

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.

 

QASM Connects webinar series 2022

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

Webinar four: Dr Juanita Muller – Preparing vascular patients for NO surgery

Webinar five: Dr Adam Parr – Transfer of patients with cervical fractures

 

Surgery – timing is everything – Thursday 18 November 2021

QASM Seminar: Surgery – timing is everything

 

Clinical Decision Making – how can we do better? – Thursday 26 November 2020

Webinar one: Dr John Crozier – Charybdis Scylla latros CSI

Webinar two: Dr Ollapalil Jacob – Unwarranted optimism and lack of honest communication

Webinar three: Dr Aisling Fleury – Just because we can doesn't mean we should

Webinar four: Dr Michael Rudd – Timing of acute surgery: does it really matter?

Webinar five: Dr Eric Donaldson – Evolution in clinical decision-making

 

Steps to improving safety, quality and patient outcomes – 12 June to 24 July 2020

QASM webinar series

Webinar one: Professor Michael Schuetz, Director, Jamieson Trauma Institute; Chair of Trauma, QUT; Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RBWH – What is required to make Trauma Care safe in a private facility?

Webinar two: Dr Alison Smith, Senior Medical Officer, Greenslopes Private Hospital – Learning from the Data: Quality and Safety in Surgery at Greenslopes Private Hospital

Webinar three: Dr Brian McGowan, Director of Surgery, Logan Hospital, Currently seconded to Healthcare Improvement Unit (HIU), Clinical Excellence Queensland – “It’s the Culture… Stupid”!

Webinar four: Dr Bruce Garlick, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital – Quality assurance in cardiac surgery

Webinar five: Michael Wishart, Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside – Preventing post-surgical infection, preventing post-surgical mortality

Webinar six: Dr Michael Gillman, Executive Director Medical Services, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital – An example of a hospital’s approach to improving safety and quality

Webinar seven: Dr Bernadette Eather, National Manager of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Ramsay Health Care – Making Safety and Quality the top priority in Decision Making – does the surgeon need assistance?

 

Seminars prior to 2020

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