Once again the adult emergency medicine and critical care track in Salvador at DevelopingEM 2014 was packed full of useful, clinically relevant, evidence based information.

Brian Wright, an attending and associate professor from Stony Brook in New York, coordinated an incredible session in Salvador.

An example of the quality presentations was the opening lecture by Dr David Wallace. David discussed some of the practice changing critical care articles from the previous year.

Check out his presentation here

Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxz23bfwu088nrl/Critical%20Care%20Articles%20EBM%20-%20David%20Wallace.mov?dl=0

Presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nns3avhfuhhan8/em_brazil_wallace.pptx?dl=0

Brian is once again putting together another fantastic session for us in Cuba this year.

Included will be come amazing talent including Viccellio, Weingart and Mallon amongst others in the lineup.

It’s yet another reason to join us in Havana this September for DevelopingEM 2015.

Well 2015 is definitely looking like another exciting year for DevelopingEM.

As you know we’re heading back to Havana, Cuba in an amazing time in that nations’ history.

With our expanding multinational faculty determined to continue to provide outstanding education, you really cannot afford to miss this opportunity to come to Havana.

Not only will you have an unrivalled educational experience but you will have the opportunity to revel in the wonders of global emergency medicine with an incredible group of Cuban and Caribbean colleagues.

If you get in early you can take advantage of our early bird specials.

To give you an idea of what to expect take a look at our summary video from 2013

DevelopingEM is a community aimed at promoting emergency medicine and critical care development world wide.

We function solely through the support of our multinational faculty and delegate group.

Word of mouth remains the most powerful tool we have for promoting our aims and objectives and you, our supporters, can help us spread the DevelopingEM concept.

Havana 2015 will be another amazing experience and the more delegates we have the more we can do as an organization to assist our Caribbean colleagues.

So tell your friends and workmates about DevelopingEM and help us make 2015 our best effort ever.

As an example of what to expect here is some of the incredible feedback following Salvador 2014.

“an amazing experience” Oscar Navea, Chile.

“It was great to compare notes with others doing international EM development work.” JP Rohde, USA.

“The conference was outstanding” Luis Lovato, USA.

“My experience with Developing EM was nothing but wonderful” Mariely Ercolano, Chile.

“I think this is really developing into a wonderful event. (Billy) Mallon said it was the best international medicine conference he has attended, because there was a genuine opportunity for people with needs to meet with people who can help” Peter Viccellio, USA.

“Thank you so much for  the enormous amount of work to arrange yet another  great conference.” Gill Perriment, Australia.

“I did enjoy being there and getting to know lot of colleagues from all over the world, same feeling I have while in a mission with MSF.” Carlos Trotta, Argentina.

“It was a pleasure to collaborate with such an amazing conference. I really enjoyed the program and having the opportunity to meet all that people from different places in the world.” Marcela Preto, Brazil.

“I found the conference to be both very enjoyable and stimulating. The topics were good and the speakers that you had attracted were of high quality.  The format was good with 20 minutes being a good length permitting some discussion. I fully agree with the ethos behind DevelopingEM and would welcome the opportunity to support you in the future.” Colin Banks, Australia.

“I would like to thank you both for the opportunity to attend the conference…. It was great! I really enjoyed the educational program, in special everything related to trauma care and POC ultrasound, and it is always good to know what people from abroad are doing in terms of patient care, their routine and their expertise.

For me the highlight of the conference was the ultrasound workshop: Lots of machines, a lot of time to practice, experienced teachers!!! Really well done!!! Hope I can attend more of your conference in the future!!!” Fabio Papa, Brazil.

“I had a wonderful time at the conference. I loved it. I think you guys have done an exceptional thing with this, and I hope it continues and would love to be a part of it.” Suzanne Beno, Canada.

“It was a really great conference. Everybody was very enthusiastic about everything and the group of faculty and attendees was awesome. I think that the level of the conference speakers and topics were very good.” Pablo Aguilera Fuenzalida, Chile.

“Excellent conference!” Jessica Best, USA.

“I personally found it very inspirational and it was great to meet all the like minded individuals (and especially the Brazilians).” James Salway, USA.

“I think you two put together a great conference. I was pleased with the content and variety as well as the caliber of many of the speakers.” Janna Welch, USA.

“The conference was awesome” Regan Marsh, USA.

“Thank you again for this great conference. I enjoyed it very much to meet you again and to follow the amazing presentations from all these great people from all over the world.” Joachim Unger, Germany.

“Brazil was a blast!! You guys sure know how to organize a cool conference:)” Tracey Catlin, USA.

“It was an honour for me to present to an extraordinary group of dedicated people doing amazing work in countries having the greatest need for EM services. My wife and I had an amazing time.” Steve Wall, USA.

GDay DevelopingEMers!!

Well after a deserved break we are back, and we are returning to Havana, Cuba for our conference in 2015.

After such an amazing time in 2013, and also after many requests, we have decided to return to the region biannually.

Between the 13^th and 17^th of September you can experience the unique DevelopingEM experience in the most unique capital city on earth, Havana.

There will also be a 2 day ultrasound workshop on offer as well as site visits to some of Cuba’s medical institutions.

Our fourth conference will build on the successful formats from Sydney, Havana and Salvador with

–       Short, sharp, clinically relevant critical care presentations aimed at the senior clinician
–       Excellent, engaging, renowned presenters
–       direct involvement of local clinicians
–       an associated ultrasound workshop hosted by Matt and Mike from the Ultrasound Podcast

In response to delegate feedback we will

–       include more time for interaction and discussion
–       add site visits at health facilities in Havana
–       drop our registration charges

Of course our core objectives will remains central to this conference

–       not for profit model with zero industry sponsorship
–       regional delegate sponsorship and assistance
–       provision of free educational devices and material to Cuban and Caribbean health systems
–       free open access to all DevelopingEM presentations

It’s hard to believe this will be our fourth conference and we’re looking forward to sharing the DevelopingEM experience with more and more dedicated clinicians from around the world next year in Havana.

DevelopingEM 2014 in Salvador, Brazil was another amazing experience and our enthusiastic group of delegates and presenters had a spectacular time.

Along with the sponsorship of 43 Brazilian and regional delegates (on the back of the sponsorship of 63 Caribbean delegates in 2013) DevelopingEM also sponsored the provision of 4 computer workstations preloaded with hundreds of hours of critical care educational material for health centres around Brazil.

As we have seen in Cuba these materials will undoubtedly be seen and shared with hundreds of hard working local clinicians over the next years.

The program in Brazil was undoubtedly our best ever with over 30 hours of amazing presentations by incredible presenters including Joe Lex, Billy Mallon, Peter Viccellio, Marianne Gausche-Hill, and Luis Lovato amongst others, with an outstanding ultrasound workshop hosted by Mike Mallin and Matt Dawson from the Ultrasound Podcast.

Trying to better this in 2015 will be difficult but we already have so many incredible presenters interested in helping us in Havana that we’re hopeful of an even better program in 2015.

For those of you who are new to DevelopingEM our welcome presentation in Salvador will give you an idea of what we’re about.

Stay tuned for more blog posts dedicated to the presentations from Salvador and with important information on making the most from your upcoming Cuban experience.

Don’t forget to follow our progress on Twitter (@developingem) and Facebook and help us meet your needs by sending us all your ideas and feedback.

Both Lee, I and our Cuban team cant wait to see you in Havana from 13^th to 17^th of September 2015.

Be good.

Lee and Mark.