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DevelopingEM partners with Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre

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 […]

Colombo Declaration at SLEMCON 2017

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 […]

LOW FI Simulation Gear for Sri Lanka

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 […]

Consolidation of Opportunities for Ongoing Educational Assistance in Sri Lanka

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 […]

“Colombo Declaration” in support of the Stop Bombing Hospitals Campaign

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 […]

DevelopingEM 2016 Sri Lanka Wraps Up

Dear Colleagues, DevelopingEM Delegates and Faculty, Well another DevelopingEM event has come and gone and we would just like to thank you for your enthusiastic support in making DEM2016 Sri Lanka a conference to remember. We hope you agree that it was an amazing event and we hope the relationships made during the conference will […]