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Culture (and Machines): Building Blocks for Institutional Memory
**This is a blog post to accompany my presentation at the LAA CGD on 6/5/24 I’ll start with a story The White Star Line FleetIn 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail, deemed ‘unsinkable’ by its creators. We all know how it ends – a tragic collision with an iceberg, leading to more than 1,500 dead. […]
Improving organisation-wide learning from “Coffee & Cases”: A quality improvement project (Sydney HEMS)
At 10am every morning at Bankstown base, our team discusses cases over coffee. This process is called “Coffee and Cases” (C+C). This blog post is an accompaniment to a presentation at the August ’23 GSA HEMS Clinical Governance Day. The purpose of the talk was to update the service on the Quality Improvement Project I […]
Reflecting on two months as a Sydney HEMS registrar
*Originally posted on the Sydney HEMS blog Uniform fitted. Induction complete. 10-mission milestone reached. It has been a learning frenzy. I’m a UK-trained emergency physician, and am two months into my year as a Sydney HEMS registrar. Some of my early reflections on the experience have had time to crystallise into bloggable form… I’m one […]
Improving the Educational Ecosystem at The Royal London Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project to Transform “Educational Development Time” (Poster)
Hi all,I thought I would share a poster of a QI project I completed (with the help of my QIP team) at the Royal London Hospital earlier this year. It is currently on display at the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference. If you would like to me to send you a pdf of the poster (the […]
The transition from junior to senior (blog version of EMTA18 talk)
I recently attended the excellent EMTA18 conference, and I was asked to give a 12 minute presentation on the transition from ST3 to higher specialty training (HST). Here is the blog version of that talk… The ST3 to HST transition is a watershed moment in the career for all EM trainees in the UK. It […]
Recommended #FOAMed resources for Swiss EM audience in Neuchâtel
Here is a list of my recommended #FOAMed (EM/critical care open access online learning) resources from the above titled talk in Neuchâtel, Switzerland on 29/11/18: St.Emlyn’s Resus.Me Emcrit The Ultrasound Podcast Life in the Fast Lane SMACC (website with info on the conference and podcasts of previous talks) The Resus Room RCEM Learning The Bottom Line […]