Suddenly, we are close.
After years of planning, hundreds of emails, dozens of Zooms and one delightful planning trip, DevelopingEM Saint Lucia 2026 is now less than 100 days away.
On 14 November, our first workshops begin,
And on 16 November, DevelopingEM 2026 properly kicks off.
And four days later we’ll probably all be wondering how it went so quickly.
So, with the countdown now well and truly underway, here’s where things stand.
The program? Done.
Not “coming soon”.
Not “subject to confirmation”.
Not a collection of empty boxes with Speaker TBA written inside them.
Done.
In fact, we’ve had our program out since February.
You can see exactly what you’re coming to Saint Lucia for, who is speaking, and what they’re speaking about
Across three plenary days we’re covering adult emergency medicine and critical care, paediatric emergency medicine, trauma, emergency medicine in Saint Lucia and the Caribbean, and international emergency medicine.
Then there are the workshops, two days before and one day after the plenary sessions.
Ultrasound. Paeds BASIC. Radiology. ECG. Emergency nursing. EMS management. And more.
There is an enormous amount happening.
The faculty? Also done.
And they’re good.
Really good.
This isn’t a conference built around one or two headline speakers surrounded by filler.
We’ve assembled emergency physicians, nurses, educators and clinicians from around the world alongside a substantial Caribbean and Saint Lucian faculty.
People such as Nat Thurtle, Nate Kupperman, April Kam, Peter Viccellio, Julie Valenzuela, Mike Secko, Terry Mulligan and Neil DasGupta will be joining an extraordinary group of international and regional clinicians in Saint Lucia.
The venue? Definitely done.
This may be one of our better decisions.
We’re taking over conference space at the Royalton Saint Lucia, with the Caribbean Sea just outside.
No buses across town every morning.
No hunting for somewhere to eat between sessions.
No disappearing to twenty different hotels at the end of the day.
Conference. Resort. Beach. Food. Drinks.
Repeat as required.
There are worse places to spend a week in November.
The local and regional aspects are taking shape too.
This has always been a central part of DevelopingEM
Already we know that nearly 200 Saint Lucian and 20 regional Caribbean delegates will be participating alongside our international delegates.
For many, registration is complimentary. For a number of regional clinicians, we’re also helping with travel and daily expenses.
That means the people discussing emergency medicine in the Caribbean won’t simply be visitors talking about it.
They’ll be the people actually doing it.
And no, we still don’t have a trade exhibition.
You won’t spend your coffee break walking through rows of booths.
There isn’t a premium sponsorship lounge.
Nobody has bought the right to determine what appears in the scientific program.
There are no sponsored lunchtime lectures masquerading as education.
That’s deliberate.
DevelopingEM remains an independent, not-for-profit conference.
It makes organising the thing considerably harder.
We think it makes the conference considerably better.
So what’s left to do?
Mostly, turn up.
If you’ve already registered, now is probably the time to start thinking seriously about flights, workshops, sunscreen and how much annual leave you actually booked.
If you’ve been following the conference but haven’t registered, the endless period in which November 2026 seemed comfortably distant has ended.
It’s August.
We’re inside 100 days.
The program has been available since February.
You know where we’re going.
You know who’s coming.
You know what we’re doing.
At some point, “that looks like a fantastic conference” has to become either:
“I’m going.”
or
“I wish I’d gone.”
We know which one we’d choose.
See you in Saint Lucia.
DevelopingEM 2026
Pre-conference workshops: 14–15 November 2026
Main conference: 16–18 November 2026
Post-conference workshops: 19 November 2026
Royalton Saint Lucia
Less than 100 days.
It’s getting very real.
Join us.