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So, you’re about to become an ST3? Part 1 – Portfolio

In the UK, the route to Emergency Medicine Consultantdom starts after foundation training, with a three year funfest commonly known as Acute Care Common Stem, or ACCS. It’s a shared pathway for doctors wishing to specialise in emergency medicine, anaesthetics, or acute medicine. The first two years comprise four 6-month blocks of each of those plus intensive care, and the final year is a whole…

The race to FRCEM. Ethnicity, region and training programs. The difference is stark. St.Emlyn’s

I work part time for the General Medical Council as an education associate and it’s a really interesting job. I know that the GMC has had a lot of criticism from the the profession over recent political issues and also in it’s role as the regulator of doctors, but it has many other roles as well. I am involved with the education team, trying to ensure that training works in the UK and supporting…

RCEM 2015 curriculum update. St.Emlyn’s

If you are a trainee or trainer in the Royal College of Emergency Medicine  (RCEM) then you should be familiar with the curriculum. This has recently been updated in 2015 and covers the breadth of the speciality. Notably there is a new addition to the common competences called Leadership and Emergency Medicine non-technical skills (EmNTS)which we think is a great addition as it’s such an…

Opening video to #RCEM15.

Here it is. The video that we could not see due to a horrific AV failure (nightmares of #smaccUS came f

https://vimeo.com/140640615

This is Dan Horner’s work and it’s a great snapshot of where EM is in the UK, right here, right now.

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VTE masterclass with Dan Horner at #RCEM15

You don’t need me to tell you that VTE is a huge problem. 10 million cases worldwide, a cost to the NHS of £466,000,000 and half a million European deaths every year spell it out. Every disease that has its own day (October 13th) must be pretty bad.

Whose problem is it? Well, some countries have decided that such an issue deserves its own dedicated experts. In the UK no single specialty owns the…

Communicating terrible news: Can we do it better? Liz Crowe at St.Emlyn’s

  It’s every health professional’s most dreaded task to have to communicate difficult news to desperate patients, friends and relatives; particularly when someone has died.

Think about this clinical case and ask yourself what you would do.

A 46 year old man is involved in a motor vehicle accident arrives via the paramedics into the ED department. Despite the team working well together and…