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  • EUSEM Working-group on Global Emergency Medicine (EWGEM)

    Written by Dr Giles Cattermole, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London Edited by Florence Kinder Fast approaching one year since the official launch of the European Society for Emergency Medicine’s (EUSEM) Global Emergency Medicine working-group, we look back at where it all began, with Dr… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… read more