Hello team! 
It has been far too long since our last event and we have missed seeing your faces.
So let’s fix that with a NoWEM SEQ Holiday Hurrah! 

Join us for an evening of fun, frivolity and and friendship. Come and reconnect with your NoWEM community over drinks, delicious food and holiday cheer!

Your ticket includes a delicious banquet dinner - let us know if you have any dietary requirements.

Seats are limited so get in quick!

Join us for an online panel discussion of how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequality and privilege in emergency medicine and the community. We have a high profile panel of speakers from a range of specialty areas to discuss how we level the playing field through the pandemic and beyond.

• Dr Nisha Khot - Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, advocate for women’s health, and the wellbeing of ethnic minority communities

• Dr Karen Williams - Psychiatrist, expert on complex trauma and founder of Doctors Against Violence Towards Women

• Dr Neela Janakiramanan - Surgeon, writer and social justice advocate

NoWEM WA is catching up for drinks and conversation - all welcome!

Please RSVP to nowemwa@gmail.com.

NoWEM is proud to announce the first in a series of online panel discussions. 

Join us on Thursday 23rd July at 8pm AEST, where we will be discussing Anti-Racism and Emergency Medicine: where we are, and what we can do.

Register via the link below, and please feel free to submit questions or experiences that we can bring to the discussion.

This event is an ACEM-approved Cultural Competency Activity.

*** This event is now at capacity and a waitlist has been established. If you have not received dial-in details please look out for an email shortly after the event begins at 8pm AEST . We will release places as they become available. ***

We are headed back to the Endeavour Tap Rooms in The Rocks, to hear from the fantastic Dr Khanh Nguyen about how she makes her action-packed and highly productive life work for her.

To say Khanh is a high achiever is an understatement. As a FACEM, she is juggling over 1 FTE between a number of institutions, including leading a Critical Care course at the University of Sydney and having set up a successful recurring OSCE course that is always over subscribed. Khanh must make this all look very easy as her colleagues often (jealously) ask her “Do you ever work?” as she is frequently off travelling the world. This year’s itinerary includes a trip every month, making it interstate and to Vietnam and Singapore all before May!

We all had different visions of what we wanted to achieve when we entered medicine. Khanh is living a masterclass in how to achieve a balanced and fulfilling life and doing the things that fall by the way side for many of us. It’s how Khanh believes she will maintain a passion for work and avoid burnout. One thing is for certain-she must have an awesome diary. Come and hear how she does it!

Join us for an evening of great company and conversation, as we hear from two inspiring local women.

RSVP below or on the NoWEM SEQ facebook page.

NoWEM SE Queensland is hosting a Christmas Extravaganza at The Boundary Hotel in West End- great food, great drinks, and a lovely rooftop garden for what is sure to be an awesome night.

We'll be there from 6.30pm, with the Christmas quiz starting at 7.

Bring your best Christmas outfits and christmas cheer- we've got prizes for best dressed and for the quiz winner too!

Come along, bring your friends, and join us for a fun-filled evening full of christmas cheer!
See you then!

- the NoWEM SEQ team

Join us and AWE at the ACEM ASM to discuss how we can bring about a climate of equity.

We are hosting a joint session on Thursday afternoon, including presentations and a panel discussion. All ASM delegates welcome - we look forward to a robust and productive discussion!

Join us for a networking breakfast at the New Zealand Emergency Department Conference on 25th October 2019.

The theme for the conference is “equity”, and we look forward to discussing the power of networking and the challenges and progress that has been made towards gender equity.

Tickets for the conference are still available and can be purchased here. You will have the option to RSVP for the breakfast when you RSVP, for a small ticket price of $25.

If you’re not coming to the conference, but wish to attend the breakfast please contact us directly.

We are looking forward to our first meeting in Aotearoa!

On Saturday 19th October, we held our inaugral ELITE and NoWEM dinner, where we celebrated the wonderful women of Emergency Medicine in the Top End.

Many thanks to Dr Nadi Pandithage who grew up in Darwin and was one of the very first ED registrars at Royal Darwin Hospital, later becoming one of the original FACEMs-a true, pioneering local! As a successful FACEM, married, mother of 4, she gave her thoughts on How to Have Your Cake and Eat it too.

Yes, you can have your cake, but the size of cake you eat, or the part of cake you choose to eat, will need to be flexible depending on your season. We are sometimes victims of our own success-we can do amazing things us ED women. We have many talents (as demonstrated later in the evening by a game of guess the secret talent) But, just because you want to do something, or know you’re going to be good at something, doesn’t mean you have to do it, right then and all at once. Choosing a path today does not preclude you flipping it right around tomorrow and following a completely different path. It was a reassuring reminder from a remarkable, successful woman that not everything needs to happen now. Our privileges are not going to disappear because we don’t grasp them all now. We do have the luxury of time.

Thank you also to Dr Amanda Wallis, another FACEM and medical missionary of sorts. Amanda has spent much of her career abroad, including MSF in South Sudan. Currently, she and her husband are building medical relationships in Timor Leste in an effort to advance the quality of health provision there.

She recounted a sentinel life event, where her husband became critically unwell with encephalitis in South Sudan. Having wanted to work with MSF since she was at school, Amanda recalled having sat in a concrete courtyard and having the sensation of fullness at knowing she was exactly where she was meant to be. She then went on to speak of her anger at her husband, having to watch as a colleague intubated him in a concrete bunker as he seized. Ultimately they survived to tell the tale and he is now a Paediatrician at Royal Darwin Hospital also.

Clearly this experience lead to many moments of reflection. In the context of this and other significant life changing events, Amanda talked about her reflections on what wellness actually means. It’s a word we hear a lot, but Amanda nailed it: wellness is unique and individual to every single person. It requires prioritisation and focus on what you are passionate about and what is truely important to you - whatever that maybe.

Throughout the night, we were reminded of what a privilege it is to work in the Top End and what a fulfilling, albeit challenging environment it is. We are blessed to have a cohort of strong and intelligent women who dilligently get on with the job and who are thriving in life and in their careers.

In Davina’s words: Ladies, you are my inspiration. As an outsider in the room, who was grateful for the warm and immediate welcome, it was clear that Davina is also an inspiration and support for many of those there. She will be sorely missed when she leaves next week to head back home to Tweed Heads and expand her family.

Special thanks to all the men that held the fort at work so we could have a night out and to Blugibbon locums for picking up the bar tab.

Join us at The Greenwood Hotel for an evening of celebration!

We plan to gather at the Greenwood Hotel after the Medico Legal day on Thursday 17th October to celebrate that 3 women have been appointed to the ACEM board, an all-female NSW delegation to CAPP, and to talk about the ideas we exchanged at FIX19 in NYC.

Food and drinks are available at the bar. People of all genders welcome, as well as nurses, paramedics and non-EM folk!

Feel free to contact us with any queries or special requirements.

NoWEM is delighted to host twilight drinks on Saturday September 21st at the Lighthouse Hotel prior to the ACEM Conference dinner. Join us in the Basalt Bar from 6.30pm, all welcome!

NoWEM WA held their first meeting at the Mayfair Lane Pub & Kitchen in Perth on 26th June.

Dr Michelle Johnston addressed the group asking the question “why are we still here?”. You can hear her full talk on the podcast, and read the text on our blog. A panel discussion followed, exploring the future of NoWEM WA.

Dr Johnston is an Emergency Physician and author. On a good day it is difficult to tell the difference. She has been a Consultant at Royal Perth Hospital since 2000, and she is deeply committed to Fellowship teaching. Her first novel, Dustfall, was published in 2018 by UWA Publishing. She is waist-deep in the next and suffering painfully from second novel syndrome.