Nepean Institute of Critical Care Education & Research

Our RACEplus team members joined forces with international experts in running a basic echocardiography (RACEplus) and an advanced echocardiography courses in the 42nd International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (2023) in Brussels. The course director was Professor Anthony McLean (left, front row in the picture), and was supported by a real world class faculty team. 2023 marks the 19th Anniversary of the ISICEM echocardiography courses and most, if not all, of the original faculty members are still enthusiastically taking part in the teaching. The team welcomed a new young trainer Dr Emma Bowcock from Nepean Hospital since…

“I am incredible grateful for the experience that NICCER and the hospital has given me, as I have been able to expand not only my professional knowledge but my educating skills.” Beth Wiggins, RN, ICU Nepean Hospital (March 2023) I was fortunate enough to be sponsored by NICCER to travel with a team of Intensivists, Doctors, and Nurses to teach a Ventilation and Sedation workshop in Vietnam. This workshop took place at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City. I applied with an expression of interest advertised within my intensive care unit, to share current knowledge…

“The success of RACEplus and ventilation training courses is evidence of how education connects people from different continents and countries…” Dr Trieu Huynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (March, 2023 ) cof The RACEplus has been introduced to Vietnam for the first time in 2017 on 7-8 Aug at Cho Ray Hospital and on 10-11 Aug at HTD. There were a hundred participants attending the course at Cho Ray Hospital and 25 participants at HTD. For the first time ever, I organized and attended a structural training course with a focus more on hands-on practice, the echo machine was…