It has been another busy period for Queensland Trauma Education, an initiative of the Clinical Skills Development Service (CSDS) in partnership with the Queensland Trauma Clinical Network and JTI. Since January the team has run three courses at CSDS and six on-the-road programs to Stanthorpe, Moranbah, Thursday Island, Kingaroy, Longreach and Emerald. To date, an additional 28 sites across Queensland have submitted an EOI to participate in the program.  

QTE courses have prioritised the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency focus with medical, nursing and paramedics involved in the simulation-based trauma training. Important outcomes for the program have been reflected in course feedback, including filling knowledge gaps in trauma care, teamwork opportunities and wider system improvement. Examples of broader system changes include the use of a standardised trauma activation process including pre-notification, shared mental model, and the use of role allocation prior to patient arrival. The program has also ignited excitingly new linkages between the pre-hospital and hospital teams, resulting in further training opportunities outside of the QTE program! Across all QTEC courses, both at CSDS and on the road, feedback remains consistently positive, with an average score of 4.89/5 from course participants.   

In addition, QTE has set up train-the-trainer sites (Townsville, Cairns and SCUH) which have run ten independent programs to help support the local Hospital and Health Service network. Local faculty across the train-the-trainer sites acknowledge the value of local teams training together to enable shared-mental models and standardisation in trauma care. Each of the courses being run at CSDS, with a further four courses scheduled till end of 2025, is oversubscribed.  

The QTE website use continues to grow, with >15,000 users from across 20 countries, and over 100,000 page views.  Following a QTE website update in 2024, there was a 54% growth in active users compared to 2023 and early 2025 data suggests that user numbers continue to grow at a record rate.   

Last year, QTE was listed on the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine website as the number one resource to Emergency physicians and trainees across Australia and New Zealand. We encourage you to stay alert to new topics coming up on the QTE website. 

QTE on-the-road courses.