The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) is responsible for examining and qualifying anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand. The College maintains standards of practice in anesthesiology.

Membership

The College has approximately 3200 fellows; about a fifth are female. (Among trainees in the field the gender ratio is nearly even, however.) In addition to Australia and New Zealand, the College has accredited training hospitals in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. In all, nearly eight hundred trainees learn in 140 ANZCA-accredited hospitals worldwide.

History

In 1952, sixty-nine anaesthetists of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons established the Faculty of Anaesthetists within the College of Surgeons. Prior to 1952, Australian anaesthetists were subsumed within general organizations of physicians.

By 1992, the Faculty of Anaesthetists had grown to 2100 Fellows and five hundred trainees, and represented Australia's third-largest group of medical specialists. This group dissociated itself from the College of Surgeons, forming the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

External links

ANZCA website