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INTERNATIONAL

August 2010

Our ATLS coordinator meeting is nearly upon us, and 

we are requesting your help in creating an agenda! The 

opportunity to contribute to the coordinator meeting 

makes it one of our most interesting meetings yet.

Part of our role as coordinators is to provide leadership, 

and many obstructions can transpire in doing so. One 

of the first decisions we have to make is whether we 

tell coordinators what they want to hear or challenge 

them with what they need to hear. Should we air 

conflicting perspectives or just provide information?

The success of the meeting rests with us. We need 

to work together, and we need to have a plan!

As coordinators, you all come from a myriad of 

professional backgrounds. You all have ideas to 

offer for the meeting, whether they are aspects of 

course organization that you have found useful or 

literature in your area of practice. Have you:

… a story to tell? … a lesson to share? … 

an ATLS course you cannot forget?

For example:

Which ATLS course created the greatest challenge to your 

coordination expertise? How did you meet the challenge? 

What did you learn? Will the proposed 9th Edition have 

an impact on your current demographic of participants? 

How are you going to meet this challenge of change? What 

are the visions and strategies for professional recognition 

of the ATLS coordinator role? How do you motivate 

and retain coordinators? How can you take high quality 

coordinators and make them better? As a Coordinator, 

what are you doing right and how can you improve?

kindly submit topics of discussion to us as soon 

as possible so we can compile the program.

E-mail your suggestions now!

Lesley Dunstall 

ATLS–Australia National Coordinator