Emergency Medicine #FOAMed
Free Open Access Meducation
Tribalism – panel discussion Day 2 of the single track #dasSMACC conference in Berlin. An early start for some who were rather celebratory last night, but credit where it is due, we were all back in the Tempodrom bright…
Read more
A really interesting first day in the Berlin Tempodrom at #dasSMACC. You will of course be familiar with the Social Media and Critical Care conferences. They’ve done a huge amount of work to bring together people from around the…
Read more
I don’t know about you but I had relatively little communication skills training at medical school. It was two or three days over five years and I thought that was ok, but now it seems strikingly inadequate considering communication…
Read more
Our last day in Copenhagen and time to reflect on what we’ve learned. Have a listen to the podcast of the faculty (well part of it) reflections and then read on to find out what we got up to…
Read more
After a really fantastic day yesterday, today focused on simulation in the morning and then learning theory in the afternoon. Learning theory might sound a little less exciting, but hopefully lots of interactivity and interaction both sessions kept the delegates…
Read more
2 It’s a beautiful day in Copenhagen and even better for being the first day of the teaching course aka #dasTTC. The St.Emlyn’s team has supported the TTC for several years now, teaching in the USA, South Africa, Australia…
Read more
Patients presenting to the ED are tending to get older, have more co-morbidities and take more medications. As this happens, in my experience we seem to see more patients with complications of those medications. Something we often see in the…
Read more
One of the most inspiring talks at SMACC Dub was delivered by John Carlisle on the subject of fraud in medical publishing. It was inspiring for many reasons, the topic is of real interest to anyone who thinks that we…
Read more
I will confess a geeky interest in paediatric pain management (I’ve spoken and written about it before at St Emlyns), so when I spotted this paper published online ahead of print a few months ago I flagged it for a…
Read more
This week we had one of our #ResusFridays organised by @kirstinEM , @drgarethroberts & Katie Jones in Virchester. This concept was inspired by our friends in Edinburgh who have run them for some time1 with the aim of improving the…
Read more