Author: Mark Newcombe

Andrew is a Senior Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine and a Clinical Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong in NSW, Australia. He has a significant background in education especially in rural and remote settings. Andrew has particular interests in Decision making in Emergency Medicine, Advance Care Directives in the Emergency Department and Emergency Department systems.

Between the lack of street lights and the music I was able to anonymously blend into the scenery. I sat on a railing, smoking my fine cigar watching a group of 50-60 people having a marvelous time singing and dancing in the street to the music of a few guitars and drums.

The lyrics from a 70s song “Year of the Cat” came to mind:

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

Cuba is an absolutely fascinating country. A combination of Madrid and Moscow in the middle of the Caribbean.
Crumbling colonial buildings, 1950s American cars, revolutionary murals, rum and cigars, with an integrated multicultural population which makes Cuba an incredibly romantic place to visit.

Dr Joe Lex has been working in Emergency Medicine for over 40 years. He is passionate about medical education for which he has been awarded many accolades. In this talk, Joe encourages us to embrace new technologies, such as twitter and crowd sourcing to engage us in new research, and to become actively involved in peer review through this means. And he introduces and explains to us some very important concepts that we all need to be very aware of when interpreting the medical research we read.

Dear Delegates of DevelopingEM 2013 and Supporters of DevelopingEM, We’d  like to welcome you to our new website and introduce you to our blog.  We’re aiming to release a post per week and will release all the presentations from Havana with comments and updates right here. For our first post we’d just like to share […]