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The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists ANZCA
According to the College website:
- "Initially, anaesthetists were members of organisations representing physicians and surgeons ... In 1952, a Faculty of Anaesthetists was created within the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. There were 69 foundation Fellows.
- "By 1992, anaesthetists formed Australia's third largest specialist medical group, with more than 2,100 Fellows and 500 trainees. After 40 years' association with the College of Surgeons ... the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists came into being in February, 1992.
- "Its function is to cultivate and maintain the highest principles and standards in the training, practice and ethics of anaesthesia, intensive care, pain medicine and related sciences and branches of medicine. The College is directly responsible for the examination and qualification of anaesthetists, and the standards of anaesthesia practice in Australia and New Zealand.
- "The College has approximately 3,200 Fellows worldwide ... 2,600 males and 600 females. The proportion of women in anaesthesia is progressively increasing, with almost equal numbers of trainees.
- "In Australia, there is more than one anaesthetist for every 10,000 people. In New Zealand, the proportion is similar. College policy aims to maintain a reasonable ratio of anaesthetists in country and remote areas, and works closely with hospitals and other authorities to encourage this.
- "The average number of anaesthetists in training in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia is amost 800 per year, and the College has some 140 hospitals accredited for training throughout these countries."
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