Emergency Medicine is an emerging specialty the world over and we at St Emlyns wholeheartedly support the fantastic Developing EM conference and its aims. Teaching and learning collaboratively across geographical borders is a challenge; teaching and learning across huge resource disparity is an even bigger one.
Most EDs in the UK see a mixture of adult and paediatric patients. You've probably seen sick adults as part of your F1 year but we know that for many new ED docs this is the first time you've seen a paediatric patient since medical school.
Somewhere in the ITV archives is television footage of me, on my first day in the PED as an ST3 doctor, assessing a child with a scald in resus.
If you could pick just one speaker from SMACC Gold to give a bespoke, inspiring talk to you and your colleagues locally you probably couldn't do it. Your mind would shut down - there were too many good speakers.
The Psychology of Influence, by Robert Cialdini