Conference Reports

Why do stories make such powerful teaching tools? Revisiting his EuSEM 2021 talk, Simon Carley explores how patient narratives engage learners and connect clinical experience with evidence, with an animation and links to his fuller discussion of storytelling.

Paediatric dental trauma, metabolic emergencies and vaping feature in Natalie May's notes from day one of the 2021 Paediatric Emergencies Colloquium. She draws out practical learning points from the virtual meeting and reflects on their relevance to emergency care.

Simon Carley's selection of ten trauma papers for the 2021 Trauma Care UK conference spans haemorrhage control, airway intervention and traumatic brain injury. The review considers what the findings add to practice and where trial design or uncertainty limits their interpretation.

How can resuscitation improve beyond knowing the next clinical intervention? Simon Carley's conference teaching brings together preparation, team pauses, maintaining control of the patient, peer review and hot debriefs, with practical tools for thinking and learning under pressure.

This September 2020 CODA Zero update introduces discussions of gender inequality and racism in healthcare. It explains how the postponed conference moved its global community online, using ethics-focused conversations to prompt reflection and action rather than simply describe familiar problems.

An August 2020 introduction to CODA Zero, the online programme developed after the planned Melbourne conference was postponed. The post outlines its opening sessions on pandemic sepsis and gender, explaining how the CODA community could continue meeting during COVID-19.