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Chris Gray and the team report from the final day of the 2023 RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Glasgow. Highlights include global health, emergency medicine training and grant-funded research, alongside studies of subarachnoid haemorrhage, chest pain and resuscitative thoracotomy.

In this updated personal reflection, Stevan Bruijns examines racism, privilege and inequality in global emergency medicine. Drawing on his own experiences, he considers whose voices are heard in research and education, and how everyday choices can make collaboration more inclusive.

Chris Gray and the team report from day two of the 2023 RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Glasgow. Sessions cover the future of emergency medicine, smoking cessation, carbon monoxide poisoning, trauma triage, prehospital troponin testing and the REBOA-UK trial.

Highlights from the first day of the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Glasgow in 2023. The report covers emergency medicine research, including rib fracture analgesia and acute aortic syndrome, alongside staff wellbeing, peer support and paediatric research updates.

Iain and Simon review the St Emlyn's blog and podcast from July and August 2023. Topics include trauma, burnout, prehospital care, training for high-acuity, low-occurrence procedures and paediatric ultrasound.

Does an emergency physician's age relate to patient outcomes? This appraisal examines a retrospective study of older US patients, its association between physician age and seven-day mortality, and the uncertainty about what might explain that association.