What does a major critical-care conference offer a medical student? A student volunteer reflects on dasSMACC 2017 in Berlin, describing international friendships, encouragement from clinicians and how FOAMed opened up learning opportunities beyond the usual placement experience.
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The final day of dasSMACC 2017 brings education, human factors and the human cost of healthcare into focus. This report reflects on simulation, learning from failure, burnout and global solidarity, alongside powerful contributions from patients, clinicians and educators.
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Day two of dasSMACC 2017 asks how professional tribes, team dynamics and complexity influence care. The report also covers equality, knowledge sharing and resuscitation debates, bringing together reflections on how emergency and critical-care teams work under pressure.
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Day two of The Teaching Course in Copenhagen in 2017 puts educational theory into practice. This report explores simulation for experienced clinicians, designing scenarios, retrieval and spaced learning, and making constructive use of feedback as a lifelong learner.
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Do teaching hospitals deliver better outcomes? This 2017 appraisal examines a large US study linking teaching status with lower mortality, while exploring confounding, limits to generalisability and why the association does not show that teaching itself caused the difference.
JC: Those who can, do; those who teach, do better. St.Emlyn’s Read More
An archived invitation to help shape the critical care education panel at dasSMACC in Berlin in June 2017. Simon Carley outlines the session’s purpose and asks what opportunities, challenges and questions mattered to the clinicians and educators attending.
#dasSMACC Education panel: Get involved. St.Emlyn’s. Read More
A report from EuSEM 2016 in Vienna, covering trauma, cardiac diagnostics, decision-making, education and clinician wellbeing. Alongside the clinical sessions, the post reflects on interactive debate, international connections and the value of meeting emergency medicine colleagues beyond the lecture hall.
What did you miss at #EuSEM16? St.Emlyn’s Read More
An archived announcement of the St Emlyn’s team’s involvement in dasSMACC in Berlin in 2017. The post introduces a recorded conversation with co-convener Roger Harris and sets out the original programme and registration timetable published in October 2016.
DAS SMACC is go. St.Emlyn’s Read More
