We've had some great feedback from our first hybrid conference which took place on Thursday, 14th September 2023 and we'd still love to hear from you. A link to the feedback questionnaire is below, once completed your attendance certificate will be emailed to you.
ALSG/MTS Hybrid Conference: 14th September 2023 - Feedback questionnaire
We are in the process of editing the footage from the conference and it will be available shortly along with a short montage of photographs from the day.
Available video recordings:
Podcasts by Ben Symon:
Interviews:
Photographs:
Tony graduated University College Cork in 1997. He came to the UK to complete a higher specialist training scheme in emergency medicine and stayed being offered a job post training in Salford. Tony has an interest in major incident planning/response and pre-hospital care. He has worked as a MERIT doctor with NWAS and is currently chair of the MIMMS working group.
I am a single speciality intensive care medicine trainee in Bristol. My interests are in neuro-critical care, education and well-being. I became interested in health inequalities and following the Covid-19 pandemic. I am also the director of WARD (well and resilient doctors): a peer support group and well-being service across NHS England South West.
Outside of work, you can find me entertaining a toddler or in the great outdoors.
Brodie Paterson is an Emergency Medicine Consultant with over 25 years of pre-hospital experience. He’s a GIC instructor and MIMMS and APLS course director.
During Covid, he and Dave Bywater wondered how they could keep MIMMS alive in the depths of lockdown. They used MS Teams to deliver a one-day MIMMS that subsequently developed into a hybrid course allowing F2F and remote participation during the same course.
We’re looking forward to sharing the learning outcomes and how this can be used to share ALSG learning to remote and rural communities.
Dave has worked with the Scottish Ambulance Service since1996, qualifying as a Paramedic in 2001. He has experience working in remote and rural as well as urban areas across Scotland. He has had previous roles as a Paramedic Practitioner, Special Operations Paramedic, Clinical Advisor and Practice placement Educator. As the Consultant Paramedic for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA), Dave assisted in the delivery of the Scottish Ambulance services commitments to the Scotland OHCA strategy, representing the OHCA team at local, national, and international levels. He is also responsible for Paediatric care within SAS. Dave is a reservist with the Scotland Charity Air Ambulance service. A member of BASICS Scotland for many years, as a voluntary responder in rural Scotland and a member of the BASICS Scotland education faculty, Dave directs as well as teaches Pre-Hospital Emergency Care, Pre-hospital paediatric life support and major incident management courses. When not working, he is mostly chasing his next whisky…
Date: 25 – 28 September 2023
Format: Hybrid (virtual or onsite tickets available)
Register: https://rcem.ac.uk/events/annual-scientific-conference-glasgow-2023/
Event summary: The Annual Scientific Conference highlights cutting-edge research in emergency medicine (EM) from national and international speakers. The conference will cover a range of evidence into practice, evidence based medicine and hot off the press sessions about a range of EM related studies. You will also hear from Professor Sue Mason as she delivers the prestigious David Williams’ Lecture, and RCEM President Dr Adrian Boyle deliver his Presidential Address. There a two pre-conference workshops to chose from; practical ultrasound or Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
Have you seen what study days and workshops RCEM have got to offer? Throughout the year they offer a plethora of events on a huge number of topics, from CESR to ED Design and major trauma to chest drain insertion. To see the full list of events and for more information visit www.rcem.ac.uk/events.