{"id":3532,"date":"2023-06-15T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geccouk.com\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:02:15","slug":"icem-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geccouk.com\/?p=3532","title":{"rendered":"ICEM 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Federation of Emergency Medicine has held it\u2019s annual conference,\u00a0ICEM<\/a>,\u00a0in Amsterdam this year and what a conference it has been for GECCo-spotting. Not one but two of our\u00a0upcoming Edinburgh event<\/a>\u00a0workshop leads,\u00a0Taj Hassan<\/a>\u00a0and Colin Macalindin were to be found\u00a0\u00a0– Colin presenting his work evaluating the\u00a0Bristol-Nanyuki<\/a>\u00a0global health fellowship.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leeds-based Taj of course has been supporting GECCo for some time, and was a key-note speaker at our \u201cGlobal health back home: obligation or opportunity<\/a>\u201d online event in October 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also amongst the Bristol crew (and indeed, two of last year\u2019s presenters for our Manchester event \u201cWeaving global health into the ED: partners, mentors and fellowships<\/a>\u201d), Imara Gluning and Andy Lockyer<\/a> were among the delegates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andy\u2019s presentation added to the global health foray, alongside that of a long-time Twitter champion of the GECCo journey, Rob Mitchell<\/a> from Melbourne as he presented some work he has done with colleagues in Papua New Guinea on the Interagency Integrated Triage Tool<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turns out the Australian College of Emergency Medicine actually have their own \u201cGECCo<\/a>\u201d (albeit with less of our reptilian-imagery) – and whilst he and colleagues graciously moved past our inadvertent infringement – it created a good opportunity for some cross-continental learning as to how two higher income countries engage their emergency care community in global health. Fun fact: what does the internet call a group of GECCo\u2019s [sic]? A HYPE<\/a>. Was there ever a better collective noun?! That this is unverified information feels unimportant given how great it sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Some great conversations were had with our Aussie counterparts – if we\u2019re lucky we may get to hear more on that front in the global health section of the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference<\/a> in Glasgow (September 2023) – watch this space.  On the topic of great conversations,  Amsterdam provided an opportunity to rekindle some discussions with colleagues within the African Federation of Emergency Medicine<\/a> as to how GECCo might be placed to support over the coming months and years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 One of GECCo\u2019s founders, Anisa Jafar<\/a> delivered a presentation advocating the Access-, Resource-, Context-limited Healthcare (ARC-H) principle of defining global health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A further presentation was on behalf of an ongoing collaborative piece of work with Silas Webb<\/a>, Charlotte Ward alongside Claire Crichton-Iannone stemming from some initial introductions via GECCo and its close working relationship with the RCEM Global Emergency Medicine committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst there is absolutely an argument for more and more online engagement, for all of the extra access this can create, there very much remains a place for in-person events such as this to foster closer working. The key of course is making such events geographically and financially accessible – having them take place in a variety of places where regional colleagues can more easily attend, and, when they happen to be more out of reach, adopting methods of delegate support such as the AfCEM\u2019s Supadel<\/a> model. Where there is a will, there is always a way<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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