On Reflection
On Reflection I’ve been reflecting on reflection for some time now, at least since I started formally collecting my lessons from Sydney HEMS and probably even before that, because this …
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Update on #FOAMed on prescription at #RCEMasc. St.Emlyn’s
This week I am at the RCEM conference in Liverpool. It’s a special time as we celebrate our 50th birthday, and it’s also a time to get together with old …
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Interactive Ideas for Workshops
Here are some ideas for interactive games and exercises in workshops, together with examples of how I have used them and some ideas about how you could adapt them to …
How to Plan a Workshop
I’ve put together ten tips for planning a workshop based on my experiences planning workshops since 2005 when I was originally trained as an IFMSA trainer. I’ve made plenty of mistakes …
101 Reflective Lessons from a Year with Sydney HEMS. Part One: Education.
I had never really had an urge to work in the prehospital environment, I’ll be honest. As someone scared of flying the idea of helicopters did not appeal and …
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Futureproofing EM: Why your trainees deserve it (and your nation needs it). St.Emlyn’s
I suspect all Deaneries (locality branches of Health Education England as they are now known) have their traditions and meetings. In the former NW post-graduate deanery we have ours. …
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Bringing the Outdoor Classroom Indoors – #MedEd at #smaccFORCE #smaccDUB
Before February this year I had no prehospital experience whatsoever – so standing up in front of a crowd at the smacc prehospital workshop #smaccFORCE, I felt like a bit …
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Wait Time: Why Silence Matters in Medical Education
Questions, Questions, Questions Over the last fifteen years I’ve noticed that the more I learn about medicine, the more I realise I really know very little and the more questions …
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