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Day 1 at RCEM Conference 2025 tackled identity, innovation, wellbeing, and risk in Emergency Medicine. Key insights from Joey Godfrey on St Emlyn’s.

Applying for a clinical education fellowship? Nick Smith draws on his experience of shortlisting and interviewing to explain how to demonstrate meaningful teaching experience, match an application to the person specification and prepare a convincing interview and teaching session.

A collection assembled in April 2020 for doctors redeployed into emergency medicine during COVID-19. It brings together RCEM and St Emlyn's induction resources, pandemic material and open-access books to support clinicians entering the ED for the first time or returning after a gap.

Starting ST3 brings new clinical responsibilities as well as portfolio demands. Drawing on a year in paediatric emergency medicine, this post discusses listening to parents and nurses, working with uncertainty, building relationships and making space for life outside the department.

How can a portfolio support learning rather than become a last-minute paperwork exercise? This account of the ST3 year offers tips on supervision, everyday cases, extended supervised learning events and organisation, with assessment requirements described as they stood in 2017.

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.