National Pain Education Summit - You're invited!

1st October 2026 | Melbourne

The Faculty of Pain Medicine (ANZCA) invites ANZAPHE members to attend the National Pain Education Summit: From Standards to Practice - Building Australia's Pain Education Capability, to be held in Melbourne from 9.00am to 3.15pm on Thursday 1 October 2026.

The Summit will bring together leaders involved in designing, delivering, evaluating, accrediting and improving health practitioner education to accelerate implementation of the “Australian Standards for Health Practitioner Pain Management Education” (“the standards”).

The program will on focus on practical approaches to embedding the standards across a range of settings including university and vocational education, clinical supervision, continuing professional development and health service education.

Delivered in person, the Summit is designed to encourage meaningful discussion, collaboration and implementation planning across the health, education and accreditation sectors.

Attendance is free, and particularly welcome those with responsibility for, or a key role in, education, training, accreditation, workforce development, curriculum design or related policy areas.

Find out more  about the Summit or register now. Places are limited, and registrations close at 5.00pm (AEST) on Wednesday 16 September.

AIPPEN 2026 IPE Session 3: Speaking Up In Healthcare – designing an interprofessional speaking up capability framework

Presenter: Dr Philippa Friary

When: Wednesday 7th October 2026
Time: 12pm - 1pm (AEDT)

Communicating innovative ideas, suggesting changes to practice, identifying mistakes we have made, and even highlighting errors others have made, are all complex interprofessional communication acts. How prepared are the healthcare students you work with to communicate these messages? What more could be done to collaboratively create a healthy speaking up culture?

Philippa welcomes you to learn about key findings from her doctoral study on speaking up among allied health new graduates and to share speaking up activities you are engaged in. You are invited to join other AIPPEN and ANZAHPE members in co-creating a healthy speaking up curriculum.

About our Presenter:

Dr Philippa Friary is the Director of Clinical Education for the Masters in Speech Language Therapy Practice programme at The University of Auckland. Her education and healthcare leadership experience and international committee roles have taught her the importance of speaking up for the communities we work with, our teams, and ourselves to ensure safe, high-quality care.

We anticipate that you will leave with at least one new idea to explore, and widen your network of colleagues with interests in interprofessional education.

Best regards,

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This session is FREE  to attend and a recording will be available on the AIPPEN page of the ANZAHPE website following the event.

Global Mental Health Summit 2026

14th - 16th October, 2026 | Perth

The Global Mental Health Summit in Perth (14 – 16th October 2026) is organised by Multicultural Services Centre WA in collaboration with World Federation for Mental Health and WA Mental Health Commission.

Whether you are a clinician, researcher, educator, student, or advocate, your voice matters. There are also various categories of prizes for students involved in undergraduate or postgraduate research in mental health.

For any queries write to Prof. Zarrin Siddiqui gmhs@mscwa.org.au

University of Otago, Christchurch Simulation Instructor Workshop

10th - 12th November, 2026 | Christchurch, New Zealand

This three day workshop is open to health professionals with an interest in simulation-based education.

Focus and format of the workshop

The workshop includes active participation and practise of all components of simulation-based education as well as presentations and discussions of both theory and practice, including:

• Educational underpinnings of simulation-based education
• Principles and practice of scenario writing
• Best practice in SBE including focus on safety approaches to debriefing
• Orientation to the human simulators SimMan3G Plus / SimJunior / SimBaby and the simulation environment
• Developing and delivering/running a scenario
• Participating in scenarios
• Reviewing scenario development and delivery practice
• Debriefing a scenario
• Reviewing debriefing practice (debriefing the debrief)

Comments from previous workshop participants:

"Thank you for making this a valued learning experience and investing in us individually as well as a group"

"Very well prepared, planned and facilitated workshop"

“Debriefing was so worthwhile after participating in a Sim. It really helped to get my thoughts in order in a safe space by a supportive debriefer and co-debriefer. Thank you for supporting my learning.”

Location

The venue is the Simulation Centre in the new University of Otago campus building, 20 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Places are limited to 20 participants, on a 'first-in' basis, and your place is not confirmed until payment in full has been received.

11th International Clinical Skills Conference

16th - 19th May, 2027 | Monash University Prato Campus, Italy

The 11th International Clinical Skills Conference will take place from Sunday 16 May to Wednesday 19 May 2027 at the Monash University Prato Campus, Italy.

Convened by an International Steering Committee and coordinated by the International Clinical Skills Foundation (ICSF) in conjunction with Monash University, the conference will bring together clinical skills educators, researchers and health professional education leaders from around the world.

Registration categories & fees listed below -

Earlybird Registration $1700.00 AUD (includes social functions): closes February 28th, 2027

Regular Registration $1,900.00 AUD (includes social functions ): from March 1st , 2027

Student Registration $900.00 AUD ( full time students: excludes social functions – purchase separately)