Trauma Care Oz-Style

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Kevin Fong and the ‘Extreme A&E’ crew visit The Alfred in Melbourne, Australia to see the response to the road crash epidemic in action.

Another Six SMACCers!

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Here are the next 6 videos entered in the PK SMACC-talk competition being run as part of the SMACC 2013 conference. Yes, they are also awesome!

The Intern Crisis

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No hospital places for medical interns? That’s an immigration problem, clueless Minister tells Senate #interncrisis

Postcard from the Edge in the Middle

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In this ‘Postcard from the Edge’, LITFL’s Michelle Johnston reflects on her recent exposure to indigenous health in Australia’s remote communities. The ‘Edge’ can be quite close to home.

Do you know if you really own the airway?

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Toby Fogg follows up his interview with Minh Le Cong with a guest post about his Australia and New Zealand ED Airway Registry project. Get involved!

Retrievals: Too sick, crazy, big, or little to stay here!

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Rick Abbott shares his always unique thoughts on retrievals, aka transfers in the big country to the North-East. As always, there’s plenty of food for thought.

It costs what?

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Rick Abbot, our ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’, dives into the murky quagmire of medical costs in the United States and makes a comparison with what he experienced in Australia. At least he tries to…

The Registrar sits at the desk registering patients. Right?

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Rick Abbot provides the ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ perspective on emergency medicine training in Australia and the United States. He also figures out the difference between a resident and a registrar…

Looking back at ‘Educating For Our Future’

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Bish Rajapakse looks back through a trainee’s eyes at the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. The theme was ‘Educating for our Future”.