What does counting conference speakers reveal about gender equity? This 2016 report examines EM programmes from 2014–2015, comparing women’s representation with the specialist workforce and considering speaking time, methodological limitations and the questions that simple headcounts leave unanswered.
JC: Are There Too Few Women Speakers at Conferences? Read More
Are we teaching today’s learners in ways that only suited our own training? In this 2016 conference companion, Natalie May considers generational assumptions and argues for active learning, supportive supervision and thoughtful use of online resources in medical education.
Generation Why – Challenges in Medical Education at #NSWMET Read More
What can hospital educators learn from prehospital training? Drawing on her experience with Sydney HEMS, Natalie May explores team induction, maintaining competence and a supportive learning culture, asking how simulation, regular practice and case review could strengthen education inside the emergency department.
Bringing the Outdoor Classroom Indoors – #MedEd at #smaccFORCE #smaccDUB Read More
Natalie May’s SMACC Dublin workshop notes review the 2015 paediatric and neonatal resuscitation guidelines. This historical teaching resource covers airway and ventilation, unexpected deliveries, care after resuscitation and communication with families, explaining why newborn resuscitation needs particular preparation.
#smaccMINI – Paediatric Resuscitation Update at #smaccDUB Read More
Notes and recordings from the 2015 Teaching Course in New York on building better presentations. Natalie May introduces approaches to planning, rehearsal, storytelling, slides and delivery, alongside practical design resources and Scott Weingart’s method for organising a conference talk.
Awesome Presentations at #TTCNYC15 Read More
What happens when an educator leaves enough silence for a learner to think? Natalie May explores ‘wait time’ before and after answers, reflects on a recording of her own teaching and suggests ways to notice interruptions, tolerate pauses and improve educational conversations.
Wait Time: Why Silence Matters in Medical Education Read More
Two 2016 studies examine difficult questions in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: whether amiodarone or lidocaine improves outcomes, and how resuscitation duration relates to neurological recovery. Natalie May considers study design, statistical uncertainty and why translating findings into bedside decisions needs care.
JC: Arrested Developments. St.Emlyn’s Read More
Can clinicians be both assertive and respectful? Natalie May challenges the gendered labels applied to women in emergency medicine, explores the harm of polarised assumptions and argues for mutual respect and a shared commitment to patient care when colleagues disagree.
A Little Respect: Polarised Perspectives in the Emergency Department Read More
