You are invited to the first ACEM Research Network Symposium. This event, convened by the ACEM Clinical Trials Network at the RACV Hobart Apartment Hotel on Friday 22 November 2019, following the Annual Scientific Meeting. The Symposium will be a full day of scientific activity in a relaxed and collegial setting. Registration includes a networking dinner at the Franklin Bar & Restaurant on the preceding Thursday evening.

The aim of the symposium is to foster collaborative multicentre clinical research in emergency departments across Australasia. Updates on active Clinical Trials Network endorsed projects will be presented. Come and join the discussion and listen to internationally renowned speakers. The number of attendees are capped at 40, so be sure to register early so you don’t miss out.

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In November, ACEM will conduct its first Research Network Symposium – an interactive, scientific event intended to foster collaborative multi-centre clinical research in emergency departments across Australia and New Zealand. We spoke to the FACEM Dr Stephen Macdonald about the day read more...

The program is subject to change.

The ACEM Research symposium aims to foster multicentre clinical research in emergency medicine across Australia and New Zealand, and beyond. This includes clinical trials, observational and epidemiological studies. We invite submissions on topics across the range of emergency medicine practice. The project proposals should be focused on emergency department patients as research participants, and involve emergency medicine clinicians or researchers as leaders within the project team. The scope and design of the project will involve multiple collaborating emergency departments.

The symposium is now open for submissions for presentations in two categories. A short presentation of the project will be followed by a floor-discussion with the objective of providing investigators constructive feedback to maximise the likelihood of success in successfully delivering the study.

Shark Tank

These are ideas for multicentre research projects in early stage, typically in protocol development.  There should be a strong rationale and some idea of design. Alternatively the idea may be to expand a single centre study or pilot study to other sites. Presentations will be limited to 5 minutes with up to 10 minutes for discussion and feedback.

Deep Blue

These are projects at a more advanced stage of development. There will be an established research team, well-developed protocol, projected sample size and number of sites and a clear timeline for obtaining funding and approvals if these are not yet in place. Recruitment may or may not have commenced. Presentations will be 10 minutes with up to 15 minutes for discussion and feedback.

Key Dates

Call for submissions open - 23 July 2019

Call for submission close - closed

All presenters must register to attend the symposium.  Acceptance of submissions into the program is contingent upon receipt of registration fee.

Criteria

All submission must use the submission template.  Click here to download.

1. Potential for multicentre research
   
2. Junior investigator involvement
   
3. Research question well described
   
4. Research population well described
   
5. Outcome measures described
   
6. Research relevant to emergency medicine clinical practice
   
7. Aligned to identified EM or PEM research priorities (CTN/CTG or PREDICT published priorities)
   

Criteria to be taken in to account for breadth and suitability of research topics

• Population - geriatric, adult, paediatric
• Existing research known to cover/be covering the topic
  
• Type of study design - RCT, Cluster RCT, Other randomised trial design, cohort study, case control study, registry based study
• Intervention - drug, process, education procedure, other

Address

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
34 Jeffcott Street
West Melbourne Victoria 3003
P: +61 (3) 9320 0444