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Trauma

Peter Cameron and the Alfred team return to DevelopingEM to discuss trauma care during the plenary sessions for #DevEM2022. This year they are partnered with an amazing team from Royal Darwin led by Jamie Moran. Peter is the Academic Director of The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre and Professor of Emergency and Professor of Emergency […]

Toxicology Workshop at DevelopingEM 2022

In 2016 the Toxicology and Poisons Network Australasia (TAPNA) group undertook an excellent emergency toxicology workshop in Sri Lanka. TAPNA are repeating the performance this year during our Darwin event with the “Tox at the Top End” workshop The workshop will cover Risk Assessment and Decontamination Cardiotoxic Poisoning The ECG in Poisoning Agrochemical Poisoning Envenomation […]

Nursing Workshop

Once again the amazing Professor Kate Curtis will be performing an Emergency Nursing Workshop during DevelopingEM 2022 Darwin. Kate is an RN at Wollongong ED, Professor of Emergency and Trauma Nursing at the University of Sydney, Director of Emergency Research, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District and honorary Professorial fellow at the George Institute for Global […]

Illawarra Shoalhaven behind DevelopingEM

The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) is situated just south of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia and provides health services for the residents of the Illawarra Shoalhaven region – around 400,000 people. This region includes the Wollongong, Kiama, Shellharbour and Shoalhaven Local Government Areas. ISLHD operates eight hospital sites and provide community health services from […]

Global Emergency Medicine Strengthening in St Lucia

DevelopingEM is a great conference, but it is just a conference, 5 days of education. The real benefit from our events comes from people meeting people and cooking up schemes that provide lasting benefit. Some examples include recurrent paediatric, ultrasound and trauma workshops across the Caribbean, increased connectivity between regional clinicians with mentors and educators […]

Core Ultrasound Workshop for DevelopingEM 2022

Since 2013 the team from Ultrasound Podcast have produced and managed amazing Ultrasound Workshops for DevelopingEM. The workshops are based on the material produced by Matt, Mike, Jacob and Terren over the years for their Ultrasound Leadership Academy. The approach is to provide excellent “pre-reading” (around 20 hours of topic based POCUS educational videos are […]

12 months of COVID 19 with Ben Wyler

Almost exactly 12 months ago we started our COVID19 VLOG series by chatting with Ben Wyler. Ben is an emergency physician with an interest in travel medicine based in Manhattan. Ben had subbed in at the last minute to our DevEM2020 program in Colombia with a presentation on COVID19. During the presentation the WHO formally […]