Wanaka Programme

Medicine with Altitude Conference - Wanaka August 2025

Note* - Presentations and schedule may see slight shuffling or changes

 

Sunday 3 August 2025

  • 6.00pm - 7.30pm Registration Networking Reception - The Pavilion at the Edgewater Hotel

Monday 4 August 2025

  • 6.45am - 8.00am:  Various models of feedback for clinical marshmallows and dilettantes, followed by Q&A - Dr Garth Hargreaves

  • 8.00am - 9.15am: Using social psychology research on "influence" in your medical practice, followed by Q&A - Dr Garth Hargreaves

  • 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Networking Discussion Session (Fireside Bar)

  • 5.00pm - 6.15pm: Emergency Updates, followed by Q&A - Dr Donovan Dwyer

  • 6.15pm - 7.30pm: What's new in paediatric emergency? Followed by Q&A - Dr Mike Anscombe

Tuesday 5 August 2025

  • 6.45am - 8.00am: Life, limb & sight-saving assessments, followed by Q&A - Dr Michael Noonan

  • 8.00am - 9.15am: Critical decision-making in chest trauma, followed by Q&A - Dr Michael Noonan
  • 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Networking Discussion Session (Fireside Bar)

  • 5.00pm - 7.30pm: The Art and Science of Referrals - What should we be practicing? What should we be teaching? Followed by Q&A - Dr Hayden Richards

Wednesday 6 August 2025

  • 06.45am - 9.15am: +/_ Reception & resuscitation of major trauma, followed by Q&A - Dr Michael Noonan

  • 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Networking Discussion Session (Fireside Bar)

  • 5.00pm - 6.00pm: The biochemically unstable paediatric trauma patient, followed by Q&A - Dr Donovan Dwyer
  • 6.00pm - 7.30pm: SVT in infants - what's different to adults? Followed by Q&A - Dr Donovan Dwyer

Thursday 7 August 2025

  • 6.45am - 8.00am:  An update in Voluntary Assisted Dying, followed by Q&A - Dr Mick Reinke

  • 8.00am - 9.15am: A rural obstetric case, followed by Q&A - Dr Mick Reinke

  • 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Networking Discussion Session (Fireside Bar)

  • 5.00pm - 7.30pm: Life cycle assessments, followed by Q&A - Dr Leo O'Shea

Friday 8 August 2025

  • 6.45am - 9.15am:  Six puffs every twenty minutes - An origin story, followed by Q&A - Dr Simon Walker

  • NOTE: no 'Networking Discussion Session' because of 'Conference Dinner' tonight

  • 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Current state of the prevocational space, followed by Q&A - Dr Amanda Moore

  • 5.00pm - 6.00pm: Lecture & case study discussion and reflection session

  • 7.00pm til late: Weekly wrap up, Conference dinner and networking event (Edgewater Restaurant)

Saturday 9 August 2024

    • Conference close/transfers from Wanaka/own arrangements 

 

(Proposed topics and titles subject to change and / or shuffling)