Books:
EMERGENCY: Real stories from Australia’s ED doctors
– Published by Penguin Australia in collaboration with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
Excerpt from Zafar’s chapter “A Crucial Truth”: What should I do now? It was after midnight. The patient wanted to go home to bed. I wanted to go home to bed. We all just wanted to go home. Some of the staff were saying, ‘Let’s just hold him down and put him to sleep.’ Others were saying, ‘Just let him go home.’
Conference Presentations:
“Traditional Healing in a Hospital Setting: An indigenous perspective”
Developing EM Conference, Darwin, Australia, September 2022.
Joint presentation with indigenous elder Mr Kugaman Bunbari. Sharing the case narrative of Wagan Guburu and the use of traditional indigenous healing methods to 295 delegates.
“Primary Interventional Triage (PIT) – a new triage model in Redcliffe Hospital”
8th Annual Queensland Emergency Medicine Autumn Symposium, Brisbane, Australia. May 2011. Joint presenter with Doug Morel and Shailesh Daas.
Journal Articles:
Papua New Guinea 2014 Field Report
Emergency Physicians International Journal
Videos:
Patient Centred Decision Making: A complex retrieval case – ACEM Digital Media 26 October 2014
Learn how an Advanced Trainee improved patient outcomes by implementing a patient centred approach. This podcast focuses on effective inter-cultural communication in a complex retrieval case. Dr Zafar Smith explains how his enhanced knowledge as a result of undertaking the ACEM eLearning module series has proved to benefit patient understanding.
Hospital in the Home Promotional Video – Jan 2021
Townsville hospital in the home service delivering care to patients in their home environment
Teaching Excellence Award Video – Sept 2022
James Cook University Citation Award Winner
Documentary – Advanced Paediatric Life Support in Papua New Guinea
18 minute documentary of the Advanced Paediatric Life Support in Papua New Guinea November 2022 showing details of the three day provider and instructor course, simulation scenarios and participant involvement.
Articles:
The AMSA represents 17,000 medical students in Australia. The National Awards are based on nominations from around the country, and represent students’ appreciation and recognition of teachers who have made an especially positive impact on their studies.
Smith Family Robinson in Papua New Guinea
“Smith Family Robinson – A family of five adventure on board a medical ship in Papua New Guinea”.
Article from Your ED magazine, pg 34, published by the Australasian College for Emergency medicine.
July 2019. Article from Your ED magazine, pg 38, published by the Australasian College for Emergency medicine.
Another decade of disparity – ACEM newsletter 11 August 2017. FACEM Dr Zafar Smith reflects on his last ten years in emergency medicine this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Hospital in the Home Herald Sun – Article on indigenous patients accessing Hospital in the Home services
Mersey returning to state hands, $730m attached – The Advocate 5 April 2017
Uncertainty surrounding the funding of the Mersey Community Hospital.
Festive common sense needed – North West Star 14 December 2016
Concern from Mount Isa Hospital about risk-taking behaviour seemed to explode over the Christmas-New Year period.
Pacific Island health – Risk factors and health service delivery – Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand 5 May 2011
Zafar Smith, partly of Samoan descent, graduated from Otago Medical School in 2004, winning a $10,000 Pacific scholarship in his fifth year.