AMPED Medical Conferences' multi-specialty CME congress (Emergency, Medical, GP, Mental Health and allied health) is listed for 31 August to 4 September 2026 at the Lake Wanaka Centre in Wanaka, with Queenstown Airport as the gateway.
The Integrated Emergency & Medical Conference 2026 is a multi-disciplinary continuing medical education (CME/CPD) congress held in the alpine town of Wanaka, on New Zealand's South Island. The organiser lists it as running Monday 31 August to Friday 4 September 2026 at the Lake Wanaka Centre. It is billed as an "integrated" meeting, deliberately drawing specialties together rather than siloing them.
According to its own website, the conference is organised by AMPED Medical Conferences, an Australia-based CME/CPD provider that says it has run more than 100 medical conferences since 1995 across Japan, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Indonesia. AMPED's stated format blends pre-recorded online presentations delivered through its portal with afternoon face-to-face sessions, leaving delegates free to explore the destination during the day.
The organiser states the programme spans Emergency, Surgical/Medical, Mental Health, General Practice, Affiliated Health Care and All Specialties, and that all medical professionals and health practitioners are welcome. The cross-specialty design is pitched as letting registrants update their knowledge from experts outside as well as within their own field, in a relaxed, interactive setting.
The listed venue is the Lake Wanaka Centre, in the heart of Wanaka on the shores of the lake and close to the town's amenities and the World Heritage-listed Mount Aspiring National Park. As context, Wanaka has no commercial airport of its own; the standard gateway is Queenstown Airport, roughly an hour's drive away over the Crown Range / Cardrona route, with Wanaka offering a range of lakeside hotel and lodge accommodation.
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