Author: Mark Newcombe

The SPC is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, proudly supporting development throughout the region since its establishment under the Canberra Agreement in 1947. It is an international development organisation owned and governed by the 26 country and territory members stretching from Papua New Guinea, in the West, to the Pitcairn […]

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) have both in the last week formally come out to support the Colombo Declaration. It is truly amazing that our local EM colleges have supported this important Declaration. Our next efforts to further spread the word will focus on involving […]

  In 2014 during our conference in Salvador, Brazil, Anne Creaton from Melbourne explained how EM was developing as a specialty in Fiji. Check out her presentation here. Since then Anne and many other local and international clinicians have made incredible strides in a specialty tailor made for the demands of acute medicine in the […]

In introducing last years’ conference Mark explains who we are, where we’re going, and where your money goes. Check out the presentation and video from 2016. At the time we weren’t quite sure what the future held but now as you know we’re excitedly taking the concept to Fiji and the Pacific. We hope you […]

Over the last year DevelopingEM has been re-evaluating the way we can best make our concept sustainable in the long term and provide a better service for our delegates. After a huge amount of thought, advice and discussion we have decided to partner with Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre based in Melbourne. Alfred Emergency and […]

We have some great news from the team at Developing EM. After taking a hiatus in 2017 we are thrilled to announce that we have been officially invited to host our 2018 conference in Fiji! The conference will be held at the beautiful InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa on the stunning Natadola Bay on the main Fijian […]

The issue of attacks on medical facilities in conflict zones was brought to the fore by several presentations during the DevelopingEM 2016 Sri Lanka conference. The moving presentation by Kass Thomas describes the 2015 attack on the MSF run Kunduz Trauma Centre in Afghanistan. It contains emotional content and graphic images. A petition of the […]

Since December we have been working on acquiring a Low Fidelity Simulation set up for the National Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Thanks to the generosity and assistance of iSimulate , you as DevelopingEMers have facilitated the purchase of a ALSi- Advanced Patient Condition Simulator and a Crash Kelly Mannequin which used together create a flexible […]

With the enlivened interest in EM and critical care as a result of the conference there is a growing group of trainees who are hungry for your assistance with their ongoing education.   DevelopingEM’ers Nilantha Lenora, Nick Taylor, and James Salway are involved in an EM educational capacity building project in Sri Lanka to complement […]

Kass Thomas’ impassioned presentation on the Kunduz Hospital bombing stirred emotions in everyone present. We received nearly 150 signatures on a Stop Attacking Hospitals petition at the conference and plan several follow up efforts to maintain exposure of this vitally important issue including: Construction of a Medical Journal Article on the topic. Formulation of a […]