This archived announcement introduces Manchester’s Teaching Co-Operative Course on 10–12 October 2018. It outlines a practical approach to clinical education, connecting learning theory with bedside teaching, presentations, simulation, feedback and wellbeing, and introduces the international faculty behind the three-day programme.
An archive of the Manchester launch party announcement for SMACC 2019, scheduled for 10 March 2018 alongside events in Sydney and New York. It describes St Emlyn’s role as European host and plans to reconnect the community and preview educational content from dasSMACC.
Chris Gray reports from the 2018 Northern Emergency Medicine conference in Durham. The programme connects end-of-life care, frailty and prehospital developments with workforce roles, burnout and major-incident preparation. Reflections on the Manchester attack underline the importance of understanding both the response plan and support for colleagues.
What makes a conference question worth everyone’s time? Simon Carley revisits a tongue-in-cheek question-asking algorithm and the serious point behind it: making discussion useful for the whole audience. He considers moderated social-media questions, their limitations and ways to encourage focused debate without silencing participation.
A report from the first two days of the Intensive Care Society’s 2017 State of the Art meeting in Liverpool. Topics include trauma, early mobilisation, transfusion, pulmonary embolism and tracheostomy care, alongside debates about service standards, robotics and translating evidence into everyday critical care.
A 2017 conversation with the #bad_EM team explores African emergency medicine, shared learning and plans for the 2018 festival conference near Cape Town. The accompanying post considers why locally relevant FOAMed and support for African delegates matter.