Those paying close attention at this year’s OSEM will have noticed the GECCo stall and alongside that, two veteran GECCo team members, Marie Broydé and Anisa Jafar. Lots of people popped by to ask about GECCo (many more took a keen interest in our purple biros – make sure that purple ink is put to good use!). We even managed to sneak … Read More
Global health experience of staff working in UK emergency care
We’re really pleased to be able to share this recently published piece of research in the Emergency Medical Journal which highlights the impact on UK emergency care practitioners of working in global health. Alex Taylor joined the research team after some discussions with which came about during our GECCo meeting in Edinburgh. Silas Webb who is first author, has recently joined the GECCo … Read More
EM at the Deep End
Emergency Medicine at the Deep End is a network of individuals working in acute & unscheduled care committed to providing equitable and accessible emergency care by addressing the social determinants of health. Their fourth meeting focussed on vulnerable migrants and you can read more about it by swiping through their meeting summary below. PED ACP and UK-Med volunteer Kathleen Shields, presented some … Read More
Emergency Care in the Northern Territory of Australia
Written by Dr Silas Webb, ST4 in Emergency Medicine Edited by Bethany Sampson The Northern Territory (NT) is big, very big, and incredibly sparsely populated. Its 250,000 inhabitants are spread over 1.5 million square kilometers. For context, that is fewer people than live in the borough of London where I grew up (Lambeth), spread over an area larger than South Africa. … Read More
Implementing PoCUS in Sierra Leone
Written by Dr Daniel Roberts, ST6 Emergency Medicine, Brighton Edited by Frankie Cackett The advert seemed to have my name written all over it. Teaching the use of point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) in a low resource setting slotted in perfectly with experience of one each of a previous ultrasound and teaching fellowship as well as time spent in another … Read More
Paediatric prehospital trauma course training in Cairo
Dr Katherine Murdoch, EM clinical fellow Edited by Anisa Jafar In Autumn 2024 I joined a team of clinicians from the United Kingdom (Dr Gavin Wooldridge, Dr Alex Taylor, Dr Nikhil Kadam, Dr Suzy O’Connor and Dr Alastair Stanley) Kingdom to deliver the teaching in Cairo for Save the Children. The training was planned in Egypt in preparation for the Rafah border reopening, … Read More
Caring for refugees in Greece with the Med’Equali Team
Written by Dr Bethany Sampson, ST6 Emergency Medicine, South Yorkshire The clinic is full to bursting soon after it starts with equipment and medication boxes squeezed into the small room. There’s just enough space for a table, an examination couch and our patient, with me perching on a stool by the corner of the table. A queue forms rapidly outside … Read More
LSTM’s 125 year symposium: from a DTM&H alumnus
Written by Anisa Jafar, ST7 in Emergency Medicine & Houghton Dunn Fellow, North West deanery & University of Manchester Edited by Philip Delbridge So, for something a little different on our blog page: 25th-27th November 2024 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) held its 125 year anniversary symposium in the Royal College of Physicians’ beautiful Spine building in Liverpool. … Read More
GECCo meets GASOC
Written by Florence Kinder, Major Trauma Clinical Fellow, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust GECCo were delighted to be invited to deliver a workshop at the international GASOC conference in Manchester in October 2024. GASOC – or Global Anaesthesia, Surgery & Obstetrics Collaboration – is nearly a decade old and has a focus to “engage responsibly and impactfully in global surgery”. The session … Read More
Developing emergency medicine in Pakistan: cHALO’s 1st international conference in Lahore
Written by Anisa Jafar, ST7 in Emergency Medicine & Houghton Dunn Fellow, North West deanery & University of Manchester Edited by Philip Delbridge For the linguists amongst you the wordplay of the 1st international cHALO conference will not be lost. For the rest: in Urdu, “chalo” means “let’s go”. And what could be more fitting an acronym for an emergency medicine (EM) conference whose … Read More