From Fundamentals to Real-Time Decision Making

Point-of-care ultrasound has transformed emergency medicine.

But for many clinicians, there remains a gap.

A gap between:

• Knowing how to obtain an image
• And knowing how to use that image to make confident clinical decisions

The DevelopingEM 2026 Advanced Ultrasound Workshop is designed to close that gap.

This is not a beginner course.
It is not a purely advanced course either.

It is something more useful:

A progressive, adaptive, hands-on ultrasound experience that meets you where you are—and takes you further.

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A Different Approach to Ultrasound Education

Most ultrasound courses follow a fixed structure.

This one does not.

The DevelopingEM ultrasound workshop is deliberately designed to be:

• Adaptive to participant skill level
• Heavily hands-on
• Focused on clinical integration rather than image collection

Before the workshop, participants will complete a pre-course questionnaire, allowing faculty to:

• Assess baseline skill levels
• Identify learning needs
• Tailor the program accordingly

By the end of Day 1, faculty will reassess the group and may:

• Split Day 2 into separate streams (beginner vs intermediate/advanced)

This ensures:

Every participant is challenged at the right level.

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Day 1: From Fundamentals to Advanced Cardiac and Shock Assessment

Day 1 begins with a critical concept:

The basics are not separate from advanced ultrasound—they are the foundation of it.

Building From First Principles

The opening session revisits:

• eFAST
• Aorta
• Basic cardiac echo
• Lung ultrasound

But with a different lens:

• How do these expand into advanced practice?
• How do they guide real clinical decisions?

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Hands-On From the Start

Very quickly, the workshop moves into:

• Small group scanning
• High participant-to-machine engagement
• Repeated hands-on exposure

Participants rotate through stations designed to:

• Reinforce fundamentals
• Extend into more advanced applications

This is not passive learning.

It is:

Scan → interpret → adjust → repeat

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Advanced Cardiac Ultrasound and Shock

The second half of Day 1 focuses on:

• Advanced cardiac views
• Quantitative assessment
• Shock protocols (RUSH / SLICE)

These are the moments where ultrasound truly changes care:

• Differentiating shock states
• Guiding resuscitation
• Supporting critical decisions

Extensive hands-on scanning ensures these skills are:

• Practised
• Refined
• Embedded

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Dynamic Course Design

At the end of Day 1, faculty meet to:

• Review participant performance
• Identify skill groupings
• Customise Day 2 delivery

This is a key differentiator of the course.

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Day 2: Expanding Scope, Increasing Complexity

Day 2 is where the workshop broadens significantly—both in scope and clinical relevance.

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Procedural Ultrasound: Safety and Precision

The day begins with:

• Ultrasound-guided procedural techniques

Including:

• Nerve blocks
• Anatomical identification
• Real-time guidance

Participants then practise:

• On models
• On live volunteers

This bridges the gap between:

• Knowing anatomy
• Performing procedures safely

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Advanced Abdominal Ultrasound (Beyond eFAST)

Participants move beyond trauma-focused scanning into:

• Comprehensive abdominal assessment
• Paediatric abdominal ultrasound

This is particularly relevant for:

• Clinicians working without immediate radiology support
• Resource-variable environments

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Early Pregnancy Ultrasound: Avoiding Critical Errors

A dedicated session focuses on:

How not to get early pregnancy wrong

This is one of the highest-risk areas in emergency ultrasound.

Participants learn:

• Key diagnostic pitfalls
• Safe decision-making frameworks
• Integration with clinical assessment

With hands-on practice using:

• Volunteers
• Real patient scenarios where possible

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Expanding Into MSK, Soft Tissue and Specialty Applications

The updated program significantly expands scope to include:

• MSK ultrasound
• Soft tissue scanning
• DVT assessment
• Ocular ultrasound
• Second and third trimester pregnancy

These are highly practical, high-yield applications:

• Frequently encountered
• Often under-taught
• Immediately useful in ED practice

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Extended Hands-On Integration

The final session of the workshop is dedicated to:

• Consolidated scanning across all domains

Participants practise:

• Cardiac
• Abdominal
• Pregnancy
• MSK
• Soft tissue
• Ocular

With:

• Real-time feedback
• Skill-level appropriate supervision
• Exposure to varied patient types

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What Makes This Workshop Different

1. Truly Hands-On

A large proportion of the course is spent:

• Scanning
• Not watching

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2. Adaptive Learning Model

The course changes based on:

• Participant needs
• Skill level
• Real-time performance

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3. Broad Clinical Scope

From:

• Shock
  To:
• Pregnancy
• MSK
• Procedural guidance

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4. Real-World Focus

Everything is framed around:

How does this change what I do next?

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Why This Matters Now

Ultrasound is no longer optional in emergency medicine.

Clinicians are expected to:

• Diagnose shock at the bedside
• Guide procedures safely
• Assess pathology in real time
• Work independently of formal imaging

At the same time:

• Training pathways remain variable
• Confidence levels vary widely

This workshop addresses that gap directly.

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What You Take Back to Your ED

After completing this course, you will:

• Scan with greater confidence
• Interpret findings more accurately
• Integrate ultrasound into decision-making
• Expand your scope of practice

Most importantly:

You will use ultrasound not just to see—but to decide.

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Saint Lucia: Learning in a Global Context

Delivered in Saint Lucia, this workshop brings together:

• International faculty
• Clinicians from diverse systems (half of the delegates will be supported regional clinicians)
• Shared learning across different environments

This adds something powerful:

Perspective.

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So Join Us in Saint Lucia

The Advanced Ultrasound Workshop is one of the most in-demand components of DevelopingEM 2026.

Places are limited to preserve:

• Hands-on time
• Faculty access
• Learning quality

If you want to take your ultrasound practice to the next level—

This is where to do it.

Before the Report Comes Back: Mastering Emergency Imaging

Every emergency physician knows the moment:

You’re looking at the scan.
The report isn’t back.
And a decision has to be made.

The DevelopingEM Radiology Interpretation Workshop is built entirely around that moment.

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The Reality of Emergency Imaging

In many settings:

• Radiology reports are delayed
• Subspecialty input is unavailable
• Decisions must be made immediately

This workshop focuses on:

• What you need to see
• What you must not miss
• How to act with uncertainty

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A Practical, Case-Based Approach

Topics include:

• Upper limb X-rays: avoiding missed injuries
• Lower limb X-rays: key pitfalls
• CT brain: early interpretation strategies
• CT chest and abdomen: recognising critical pathology
• Ultrasound: problem-solving when resources are limited

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Built Around Cognitive Errors

Missed injuries are rarely about knowledge alone.

They are about:

• Search patterns
• Satisfaction of search
• Cognitive bias

This workshop explicitly addresses these.

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High-Yield, Clinically Focused

No unnecessary detail.

No radiology exam preparation.

Just:

• Practical interpretation
• Decision-making frameworks
• Real-world cases

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Led by Clinicians Like You, Who Understand ED Practice

Faculty include:

• Dr John MacKenzie (Australia and Aotearoa)
• Dr Sohil Pothiawala (Singapore)
• Dr Nathan Trist (Australia)
• Dr Mark Newcombe (Australia)

Clinicians who:

• Work in emergency medicine
• Understand ED pressures
• Teach from experience

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Why This Workshop Matters

Because imaging errors:

• Are common
• Are consequential
• Are preventable

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So Join Us in Saint Lucia in November.

You will leave with:

• Structured approaches to Radiology Interpretation
• Improved detection of subtle findings
• Greater confidence in acting before reports are in
• New friends and colleagues in the Caribbean as half of the attendees will be supported regional delegates

As a high income delegate at DevelopingEM 2026 not only are you assuring an amazing educational experience for yourself but those registration dollars are directed to maximising local and regional attendance.

Not only will your registration fund the attendance of Saint Lucian and Caribbean delegates but also create workshop opportunities for those delegates.

At our Advanced Ultrasound, Radiology Interpretation, Paeds Basic and ECG Intepretation workshops half of the delegate group will be from Saint Lucia and the region.

We then have several workshops solely for local and regional delegates which your registration allows.

These workshops are different.

They are not just about improving what happens at the bedside.

They are about improving what happens before, around, and beyond the bedside.

These workshops include:

• EMS Management Workshop
• Emergency Nursing Workshop
• Regional EM Leaders Forum

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EMS Management Workshop

An amazing amount of work has already been done in Saint Lucia to research the EMS needs, design appropriate local EMS Guidelines, and train to those guidelines.

When we asked what we could add to further development operators on the ground told us what they wanted- Further Discussion with All Stakeholders on how to push EMS systems further in Saint Lucia.

As such we have collaboratively designed a program where short presentations from similar EMS systems around the globe demonstrating development wins can be explained and then discussed and debated by stakeholders from all levels.

An experienced group of EMS clinicians from around the globe will facilitate but not impose on the discussion between providers, clinicians at all levels and health administrators.

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What This Workshop Covers

This full-day program focuses on the structure and function of modern EMS systems, including:

• The Emergency Care System Framework
• EMS governance and leadership
• Education and workforce development
• Dispatch systems and coordination
• Prehospital-to-ED handover
• Development of retrieval services
• Continuous quality improvement

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Why It Matters

In many settings, EMS systems are:

• Fragmented
• Under-resourced
• Lacking formal governance structures

This workshop provides:

• Practical frameworks
• Real-world examples
• A forum for discussion and debate

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A Leadership-Focused Experience

This is not a clinical course.

It is designed for:

• Current and future leaders in EMS, EM and Healthcare administration

Participants leave with:

• A clearer vision of how EMS systems function
• Tools to improve their own systems
• Connections with others facing similar challenges

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Emergency Nursing Workshop: The Heart of Emergency Care

No emergency department functions without nursing.

And yet, globally, emergency nursing education is often:

• Under-resourced
• Undervalued
• Inconsistently structured

The Emergency Nursing Workshop at DevelopingEM 2026 recognises that:

Strong emergency care systems require strong emergency nursing.

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Designed for Local Context

This workshop is specifically tailored to:

• Saint Lucian nurses

It focuses on:

• Post Triage Nursing Assessment (HIRAID)
• Strategies for Leading change in emergency care

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Why This Matters

Nurses are often:

• The first to recognise deterioration
• The constant presence in patient care
• The key to safe and efficient ED flow

Investing in emergency nursing is one of the highest-yield interventions in system improvement.

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Beyond Skills: Empowerment and Recognition

This workshop is also about:

• Professional development
• Recognition of expertise
• Building confidence and leadership

Because strengthening nursing is not just about education—it is about valuing the role.

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Regional EM Leaders Forum

Before the Plenary Sessions Kick Off a meeting between regional Caribbean EM leaders will occur.

We hope to have 15 nations represented and it is your registration income that makes this possible.

As we found in the Pacific in 2018 EM leaders in island nations often know one another but rarely have the chance to sit down and discuss potential collaboration.

By providing a space and time for discussion you are enhancing the potential for regional change.

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A Unified Goal: Stronger Emergency Care Systems

While each workshop focuses on a different domain, together they represent something bigger.

• EMS builds access to care
• Nursing strengthens delivery of care
• Regional Collaboration strengthens and expands that care

Together, they create:

A more coordinated, effective, and resilient multinational emergency care system

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The DevelopingEM Difference

What makes these workshops unique is not just the content.

It is the context.

They are delivered:

• In partnership with local stakeholders
• With regional priorities in mind
• By faculty experienced in global emergency medicine

This is not imported education.

It is collaborative system development.

And it is all of you that make this happen

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So Join Us in Saint Lucia and help build the future of EM in the region.

From Pattern Recognition to Clinical Decisions: ECGs That Matter

ECGs are everywhere in emergency medicine.

But interpretation is not just about recognising patterns.

It is about:

• Context
• Risk
• Decision-making

The DevelopingEM ECG Workshop is built to reflect that reality.

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Beyond the Basics

The workshop begins with:

• ECG mechanics and lead placement

But quickly progresses into:

• Syncope evaluation
• Chest pain and ACS
• Electrolyte and toxicological abnormalities

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The High-Stakes Diagnoses

Participants will work through:

• STEMI vs OMI
• ACS mimics (PE, myocarditis, pericarditis)
• Conduction disorders (RBBB, LBBB, SVT, WCT)
• Pre-excitation and high-risk syndromes (Brugada, cardiomyopathies)

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Interactive Learning

The second half of the day shifts to:

• Rotating case workshops
• Syncope
• Chest pain
• Toxicological and metabolic cases

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Designed for Real Clinical Practice

This is not:

• Academic ECG theory

It is:

• “What do I do with this ECG right now?”

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Why This Matters

Because:

• ECGs are often the first diagnostic test
• Critical decisions depend on them
• Subtle findings can change outcomes

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Who Should Attend

This workshop is ideal for:

• Emergency physicians
• Trainees
• Acute care clinicians

Anyone who wants to:

• Improve accuracy
• Increase confidence
• Make better decisions
• Learn with colleagues and experts from the Caribbean- half the delegate group will be local clinicians supported by DevelopingEM

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The Goal is Simple

To move from:

• Recognising patterns

To:

• Making the right call

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Make the Right Call and Register Now!

Managing critically ill children is one of the most challenging aspects of emergency medicine.

They compensate—until they don’t.
They deteriorate rapidly.
And for many clinicians, they present infrequently enough to erode confidence, yet commonly enough that the stakes remain high.

At DevelopingEM 2026 in Saint Lucia, the Paeds BASIC Workshop has been deliberately positioned as one of the cornerstone educational experiences of the entire conference.

This is not simply another paediatric course.

It is a bridge between emergency medicine and paediatric intensive care.

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Where Paeds BASIC Comes From

The origins of Paeds BASIC lie in the highly successful BASIC (Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care) course, developed in Hong Kong in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The original BASIC course was designed to solve a universal problem:

Critically ill patients are often managed initially by clinicians who are not intensivists.

It focused on:

• Practical bedside care
• Physiological understanding
• Structured approaches to early critical illness

And it spread globally because it worked.

But a gap remained.

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Why a Paediatric Version Was Needed

Despite the availability of courses like APLS and PALS, clinicians still faced a major challenge:

• Resuscitation courses focus on the first 10–15 minutes
• ICU training is too specialised and inaccessible
• Real-world care requires hours of structured management

In reality:

• Most critically ill children are managed initially by emergency clinicians, generalists, or rural doctors
• Many clinicians feel least confident in paediatric ventilation, shock, and ongoing critical care

Paeds BASIC was developed to fill that gap.

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What Makes Paeds BASIC Different

Paeds BASIC is built on a simple but powerful idea:

Teach clinicians how to manage the critically ill child beyond the resuscitation phase.

1. It Bridges ED and ICU

This is not an algorithm course.

It focuses on:

• Ongoing management
• Clinical reasoning
• Anticipation of deterioration

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2. It Is Physiology-Driven

Rather than memorising protocols, participants learn:

• Why children respond the way they do
• How to interpret clinical signs
• How to adjust management dynamically

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3. It Is Highly Practical

The course uses:

• Rotating small-group skill stations
• Repeated hands-on exposure
• Case-based discussion

Ensuring learning is:

• Active
• Retained
• Clinically usable

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4. It Is Globally Relevant

Paeds BASIC is used across:

• High-income ICUs
• Regional hospitals
• Developing health systems

Because it teaches:

• Principles that apply anywhere

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The DevelopingEM 2026 Paeds BASIC Experience

At DevelopingEM, Paeds BASIC is delivered as a two-day immersive workshop, running across the preconference weekend.

The program reflects the full scope of paediatric critical care in emergency settings.

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Day 1: Foundations of the Critically Ill Child

The first day builds a structured approach to paediatric critical illness:

• Assessment of the seriously ill child
• Acute respiratory failure
• Mechanical ventilation: basics and modes
• Fluids and resuscitation
• Crisis resource management

Participants rotate through hands-on skills sessions covering:

• Acid-base interpretation
• Resuscitation
• Analgesia and sedation
• Mechanical ventilation strategies

This is where confidence begins to build.

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Day 2: Advanced Management and Integration

The second day moves into high-stakes clinical care:

• Airway management
• Shock and septic shock
• Trauma
• Neurological emergencies and TBI
• Renal failure

Again, rotating skills sessions reinforce:

• Ventilation (advanced modes)
• Shock assessment
• Vascular access
• Airway techniques

The course culminates in:

• Integrated transport and simulation-style exercises
• Consolidating knowledge into real-world practice

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Why This Course Matters More Than Ever

Emergency medicine is changing.

Increasingly, clinicians are expected to:

• Manage critically ill children for longer
• Initiate advanced therapies earlier
• Work in environments without immediate ICU backup

At the same time:

• Paediatric ICU access remains limited in many regions
• Workforce gaps persist globally
• Complexity of care continues to increase

Paeds BASIC directly addresses this reality.

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What You Take Back to Your Department

After completing Paeds BASIC, clinicians consistently report:

• Greater confidence managing sick children
• Improved structure in assessment and treatment
• Better understanding of ventilation and shock
• Increased ability to anticipate deterioration

Most importantly:

You become more comfortable in the moments that matter most.

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Why It Fits DevelopingEM

The ethos of Paeds BASIC aligns perfectly with DevelopingEM:

• Practical, not theoretical
• Globally applicable
• Focused on real patients, not ideal systems

Delivered in Saint Lucia, alongside clinicians from across the world, the course also offers:

• Perspective
• Collaboration
• Shared learning across different healthcare environments

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Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for:

• Emergency physicians
• Trainees
• Rural and regional clinicians
• Acute care practitioners

Particularly those who:

• Manage paediatric patients infrequently
• Feel less confident with paediatric critical care
• Want a structured, practical framework

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Final Thought

Paeds BASIC is not about becoming a paediatric intensivist.

It is about becoming:

• Safer
• More confident
• More effective

In the care of critically ill children—wherever you work.

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Join Us in Saint Lucia

The Paeds BASIC workshop is one of the most sought-after components of DevelopingEM 2026, with limited places to preserve its small-group, high-impact learning environment.

We are committed to supporting the attendance of local and regional clinicians and half of our delegate group for Paeds Basic will be emergency practitioners from the region.

If paediatric critical care is an area you want to improve—this is where to do it.

AND

If you want to learn and collaborate with clinicians from the Caribbean committed to excellence in PEM—this is the workshop for you.

Hi DevelopingEMers,

If you’ve been to one of our previous conferences, you’ll already know this — but if you haven’t, it’s worth saying clearly: The workshops are where a lot of the real learning happens.

Not because the plenaries aren’t strong — they are — but because emergency medicine is a practical discipline. And the only way to genuinely improve is to get into the detail, work through cases, and refine how you actually think and act in the department.

That’s exactly what we’ve built for DevelopingEM 2026 in Saint Lucia.

One of the consistent bits of feedback we’ve had over the years is that experienced clinicians don’t want basic content.

They want:

• nuance
• decision-making frameworks
• pattern recognition
• ways to avoid mistakes

So that’s what these workshops are designed around.

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Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (2 days)

Run by the Alfred Health team, this is not a “how to hold the probe” course.

This is about:

• integrating cardiac, lung and abdominal ultrasound
• using ultrasound to guide decision-making in real time
• managing uncertainty when findings aren’t clean

If you already use ultrasound and want to actually level up, this is where you do it.

FULL PROGRAM

This workshop will sell out soon so get in early.

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Paeds BASIC (2 days)

If you’ve done APLS and thought “this is good, but not enough” — this is the next step.

This course pushes into:

• critical care thinking in paediatrics
• managing the sick child beyond algorithms
• understanding physiology, not just protocols

FULL PROGRAM

It’s a big jump — deliberately so.

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Radiology Interpretation

This one is very much built around a simple idea:

👉 Most errors in emergency medicine are not from big misses — they’re from subtle ones.

We’ll focus on:

• commonly missed injuries
• pattern recognition
• practical ways to read imaging under pressure

FULL PROGRAM

This is very much a “next shift improvement” workshop.

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ECG Interpretation

Another area where small gains make a big difference.

This workshop is not about memorising patterns — it’s about:

• rapid interpretation
• prioritisation
• decision-making under time pressure

FULL PROGRAM

Exactly what you need in a busy ED.

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Why These Workshops Fill Early

We deliberately keep workshop numbers small.

That means:

• better interaction
• direct faculty access
• actual discussion, not passive listening

It also means they fill quickly so register today!

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DevelopingEM is also supporting the performance of several important workshops for local and regional delegates including

EMERGENCY NURSING WORKSHOP

EMS MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

REGIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE LEADERSHIP FORUM

ATLS WORKSHOP

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Final Thought

If you’re coming to DevelopingEM, don’t just come for the plenaries.

The workshops are where you’ll likely get the biggest shift in how you practise.

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We’d strongly recommend:
👉 locking in your workshop choices early

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See you in Saint Lucia,

The DevelopingEM Team

#DevEM2026 @developingem www.developingem.com

Hi DevelopingEMers- yes we’re back and as usual the program is our early focus.

We like to give you a near complete program as soon as possible so you can make a decision early about joining us.

This year we are aiming to strengthen the clinical components and broaden the experiential elements of the conference.

Our clinical sessions will return to providing next day pearls for the experienced clinician who’s heard it all before.

Our experiential sessions will broaden to cover how challenges have been overcome in Saint Lucia, the Caribbean and around the globe.

And our range of workshops will have both clinical and structural focuses.

Lets look at the Plenary Sessions
Morning Clinical Tracks:

Adult Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Brian Wright and the team from Stonybrook return with high level talks on bridging the gap between the ER and the ICU.

Brian has been with us since 2014 and his team of experts will be again covering critical care management across the spectrum from asthma to tox to scape to sepsis and much more.

Always one of the best sessions of DevelopingEM.

Paediatric Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
April Kam from McMaster returns as well with a team or paediatric critical care specialists from across North America.

This year will cover the latest PEM evidence as well as covering topic areas all the way from the febrile child, to Paediatric POCUS and the management of Respiratory Failure.

The track will also include fascinating paediatric insights from our host country, Saint Lucia.

Trauma
Neil Ballard is arguably the most experienced prehospital and retrieval physician in Australasia and this year he leads our trauma medicine track. Along with a group of trauma surgeons and critical care clinicians, he will lead discussions in some of the controversies of current trauma management, from transfusion to prehospital thoracotomy, this track has it all.

And then there are the

Afternoon Experiential Tracks:

Emergency Medicine in Saint Lucia
This track centres on the host nation and will be led by local experts.
Expect discussion around:
• Workflow realities
• Staffing models
• Governance
• Locally driven innovation

Emergency Medicine in the Region
This session creates space for regional delegates (that your registration payment has supported to attend) to present practical experiences from across the Caribbean.

International Emergency Medicine
Nat Thurtle (with us since 2012) returns with a team to share experiences of developing systems from around the globe. Always a highlight it will be amazing to have Nat back.

Saint Lucian & Regional Delegate Workshops
Two workshops are specifically designed to strengthen local and regional system development and it is your registration fees that are allowing these to occur.
Emergency Nursing
Focused on triage optimisation, resuscitation leadership, and interdisciplinary coordination, this workshop recognises that emergency system performance depends on nursing leadership and structured team function. It addresses workflow control, crisis communication, and practical leadership strategies within resource-variable environments.
EMS System Management Workshop
This workshop focuses on prehospital system development and governance. It is aimed at strengthening system reliability across the entire emergency care pathway — from first contact to definitive management.

So that’s it another fabulous program for clinicians who already practise emergency medicine daily and want to refine judgment, elevate skill, and strengthen systems.

We’re back — not to repeat what you already know — but to sharpen how you deliver it.

Join us and your Caribbean colleagues in Saint Lucia this November for DevelopingEM 2026.

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.

If you’ve registered (or are thinking about registering) for DevelopingEM 2026, one of the first questions that naturally comes up is:

Where exactly is Saint Lucia — and how do I get there?

The short answer: it’s easier than many people expect.

WHERE IS SAINT LUCIA?

Saint Lucia is an island nation in the Eastern Caribbean, part of the Lesser Antilles. It sits between Martinique to the north and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the south, and is well connected to North America, Europe, and other Caribbean hubs.

The island is known for its dramatic volcanic landscape (including the iconic Pitons), warm climate, and a well-developed tourism infrastructure — one of the reasons it works so well as a conference destination.

English is the official language, the local currency is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar (XCD), and US dollars are widely accepted.

WHICH AIRPORT DO I FLY INTO?

Most international travellers will arrive via Hewanorra International Airport (UVF), located on the southern part of the island.

Hewanorra is Saint Lucia’s main international airport and the primary gateway for long-haul flights.

HOW BUSY IS HEWANORRA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT?

Hewanorra is a well-established international airport with multiple daily international arrivals, particularly during the peak travel season (which includes November).

On an average day, the airport handles:
• Several wide-body long-haul flights from North America and Europe
• Multiple regional Caribbean connections
• A steady flow of arrivals timed to allow same-day onward travel across the island

Despite being a smaller airport than major global hubs, Hewanorra is designed for international traffic and processes arrivals efficiently.

WHERE CAN I FLY FROM?

Direct flights to Saint Lucia are available from several major hubs, including:

• United States: New York, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Newark and other seasonal routes
• Canada: Toronto and seasonal connections
• United Kingdom: London (direct long-haul flights)
• Europe: Via London or regional European connections
• Caribbean: Easy connections through Barbados, Antigua, Puerto Rico and other regional hubs

For many travellers, Saint Lucia is either a direct flight or a single-connection journey.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I ARRIVE?

Arrival at Hewanorra is straightforward:
• Immigration and customs are efficient and familiar with conference and tourism traffic
• Taxis, transfers and pre-arranged shuttles are readily available
• Travel to Castries and the Royalton conference venue typically takes 60–90 minutes

IS IT COMPLICATED TO GET THERE?

In short: no.

Saint Lucia is one of the more accessible Caribbean islands for international travel. Flights are regular, the airport is experienced with international arrivals, and ground transport is reliable.

A FINAL WORD ON PLANNING

If you’re attending DevelopingEM 2026, early planning helps:
• Flights are generally more affordable when booked earlier
• Accommodation options are broader
• Arrival logistics are easier to coordinate

Saint Lucia may look exotic on the map, but in practice it’s a well-connected, conference-ready destination.

We look forward to seeing you there Nov 14-18, 2026 for DevelopingEM 2026.

#DevEM2026 @developingem http://www.developingem.com

Registration for DevelopingEM 2026 is officially open, marking the beginning of a new chapter for our global EM community.

With the event website now live, clinicians can explore the full conference outline, register for workshops, and begin planning travel to Saint Lucia.

Early Bird registration is available until 1 February 2026, offering reduced rates and greater flexibility for planning leave and logistics.

A common concern for Caribbean conferences is accommodation cost. Many resorts, including our venue the Royalton Saint Lucia, operate on an all‑inclusive model. While the nightly rate may appear high initially, it includes meals, drinks, amenities, taxes and service charges. When these inclusions are considered, the overall value becomes clear.

DevelopingEM has secured a room block at the Royalton, while Castries and surrounding areas also offer accommodation options across all budgets, including boutique hotels and BnBs.

DevelopingEM 2026 Saint Lucia is going to be a landmark event so get your registration and accommodation locked in early.

We look forward to seeing you in November 2026!