DevelopingEM has a different model to most conferences.
Right from the start we wanted to donate our time and energy to something valuable and as a result neither Sanj nor myself or indeed anyone in the medical organising committee receives a single one of your dollars.
Right from the start we wanted to make sure that the neither the medical device nor pharmaceutical industries were involved in DevelopingEM and we receive no income from this sector and we do not have a trade exhibit.
Right from the start we wanted to bring a high level educational experience to a part of the world where emergency medicine was developing and sponsor the attendance of host country and regional attendees.
As a High Income Delegate it is your registration charge that allows DevelopingEM to occur and allow us to achieve the aim of inviting and supporting the attendance of as many local and regional delegates as possible.
Your registration charge makes up 95% of our income so without you this whole thing just doesnt work.
To date our model has allowed the supported attendance of over 800 delegates since our first international event in 2013 and we hope to get close to 1000 overall by the time we conclude DevelopingEM 2026.
We are working closely with the Saint Lucian Ministry of Health to identify suitable sponsored delegates from the host nation and we hope to provide complimentary registration to over 100 local clinicians over the span of the conference.
We are also working with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States as well as with pre-existing Caribbean connections to identify delegates from the region that will benefit from not only complimentary registration but also travel and accommodation assistance to attend DevEM2026. We hope to support at least 10 (and hopefully 20) clinicians from the region to attend in this way.
This is all down to you.
The more registrations we have the more local clinicians can attend.
Its really that simple.
So why dont you join us and the DevelopingEM community this year, not only for some great education but to do something good.
