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IFEM PEMSIG NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2014 No. 5
Greetings to everyone:
It only seems like yesterday that we had our first Biennial General Meeting in Hong Kong. For those who were able
to come, Hong Kong was a wonderful time. Lots of fun. Hot, humid weather. And the conference dinner banquet…
you can’t say that Chinese people can’t feed people!!! From our perspective, the Paediatric Marketplace was a
great success. We had people asking us about how to set it up and to use the concept for their own conferences.
Please see later in this newsletter for a brief description of how it went. We hope this newsletter brings a little bit
of joy to those who were unable to come to Hong Kong as we share our experience there.
Accompanying this newsletter is a call to help with further PEMSIG activities. The PEMSIG
co-ordinating group has decided on a pathway of what we will do for the next 2 years. If
you are interested in helping out, even in some small way, then please let us know. Now,
on to the contents of this newsletter…
ICEM 2014 – 11-14 June 2014
The PEMSIG Marketplace
After months of preparation, Baljit and Ffion went into full flight with a fabulous team of ICEM helpers (porters,
AVA support, medical students, official organisers) and before you knew it we had lights, music, action…. literal-
ly!
Baljit made the porters (and some of our butch male PEMSIG members) move in many giant pot plants to give an
air of informality; they must have had bad backs for a week!!! It was a hive of activity creating floor maps, stick-
ing up posters, firing up laptops, putting out rewards (sweets and goodness knows what). Then as the clock
struck, we waited with baited breath - would anyone come? Would they understand what it was about?
The delegate mobile phone alerts started announcing the marketplace, Baljit became the perfect hostess at the
entrance enticing people in, and yes, they came.
3 hours and possibly several hundred delegates later we were all shattered, but delighted to get such good feed-
back from very happy delegates who really enjoyed the informality of “shopping” for their education for as short
or as long as they wanted, with information tailored to them individually, delivered by experts.
Baljit and Ffion would like to thank all PEMSIG members and their col-
leagues who helped teach, and who clearly had put in a lot of preparation,
thought and come up with some great original ideas on how to deliver ed-
ucation.
We plan to write up the concept and submit it to a journal - we’re just
waiting for the official feedback. As the phrase goes, plagiarism is the best
form of flattery: so many people said they were going to copy the idea at
future conferences, and we can already see a Marketplace at the ACEP
meeting in October !!
Ffion and ICEM Organiser Axel Siu at the opening of the Marketplace.
OUR PEMSIG
MARKETPLACE
— full steam ahead
Upcoming conferences: Dr Camilo E Gutierrez, one of our USA members, has sent this for us.
If you are interested, please register and come along…
Dear IFEM Members:
This year the ACEP Scientific Assembly will take place in Chicago, the windy city, from October 27-30.
ACEP’s meeting in one of the largest Emergency Medicine meetings in the USA and usually counts with
close to 7000 emergency medicine professionals from over 48 countries and features over 300 hours of
intensive education. 31 different course tracts are available representing various topics in Emergency
Medicine, Education and Business.
In addition to the highly respected courses, labs and workshops, there are multiple opportunities for
you to advance your career, try out the latest toys, and reconnect with friends and colleagues from all
over the world.
For more information of ACEP Scientific Assembly 2014 go to - http://www.acep.org/sa/
Call for expressions of interest for specific PEMSIG roles
If you have read the PEMSIG minutes, the PEMSIG committee is creating more roles for
any of our members who would like to perform a more focussed role within our group. A
list of these roles with mini-descriptions is included in the email that is distributing this
newsletter.
The ones we would like to fill now are the Best Evidence lead, and the Communications –
membership lead. If you are interested, please email Carol, Ffion and Simon and state
what you can do in the role. It is hoped that these lead positions will be filled by the end
of the year.
Helping each other: Possible future commonwealth PEM fellowships.
One of our members has raised the co-ordinating committee’s attention to an opportuni-
ty for the UK to create PEM fellowships for up to 6 months for doctors in developing
countries. The website for the funding of this is
http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/professional-fellowships/ . PEMSIG has been asked to help
with advice on how to turn this opportunity into a reality. Please look out for the email
discussion chain that will follow this newsletter posting, and reply to that if you can help.
PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Dr Joanne Paul – Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, the University of the West Indies
Dr Ian Sammy – Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, The University of the West Indies
Like most other countries, the development of paediatric emergency medicine followed the develop-
ment of general emergency medicine as a speciality. Postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine com-
menced in Trinidad in 2005 through the University of the West Indies through offering the Doctorate in
Emergency Medicine (a four year residency programme) and the Diploma in Emergency Medicine (an 18
month part time programme, aimed at primary care physicians with a special interest in Emergency Med-
icine). In 2006, the University accepted a cohort of 3 students for the Diploma in Paediatric Emergency
Medicine, a stream of the Diploma that concentrated on paediatric care. All three students have since
been appointed consultants at the paediatric emergency department at EWMSC.
Paediatric Emergency Medicine has existed as a distinct practice in Trinidad and Tobago for the past 15
years. The creation of a dedicated paediatric emergency department at the Eric Williams Medical Scienc-
es Complex (EWMSC) coincided with the transfer of paediatric services from Port of Spain General Hospi-
tal (the large tertiary institution in the capital) in 1999.
Since 1999, PEM practice has matured at a constant rate. Several doctors have been instrumental in its
development, the main leaders in the field being Dr Chris Ramsook, Dr Ian Sammy and Dr Joanne Paul.
Dr Chris Ramsook was the first fully trained PEM specialist in the country, and initiated the development
of the specialty, promoting a much more pro-active approach to patient management, active ED leader-
ship in ED resuscitation, procedural sedation in the ED and protocol driven care for common and serious
conditions in the ED.
Dr Ian Sammy arrived later and helped develop protocols in the paediatric ED, implemented more formal
triage, and offered structured training in both adult and paediatric emergency medicine through the Uni-
versity of the West Indies. In addition, Ian introduced the Advanced Paediatric Life Support course to
Trinidad in 2003. This course has been run by local faculty in Trinidad at least twice per year since its in-
troduction, and has more recently been supplemented by the one-day Paediatric Life Support course,
which is run more frequently across the country. In his spare time, Ian plays the cornet and likes spending
time in his garden.
Dr Joanne Paul took up a post as a consultant in the paediatric emergency department in 2007, having
completed training in UK, Australia, and Canada. She has been instrumental in leading the development
of paediatric emergency medicine in Trinidad and the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Member focus of this newsletter:
Drs Ian Sammy and Joanne Paul have written this brief description of PEM in their country.
It’s interesting reading. Many thanks to them for providing us insight into their world…
PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Continued….
She is now the director of paediatric resuscitation training in Trinidad, and has introduced structured
clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine to both the DM and Diploma programmes. In addi-
tion, she has co-ordinated the department to regularly host emergency physicians from around the
region and internationally, providing much needed training and experience in paediatric emergency
medicine. She has also led the department’s implementation of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale,
and has updated existing protocols and added new protocols. Joanne is also an avid hiker and writer
and enjoys traveling the world.
Paediatric emergency medicine in Trinidad and Tobago has seen great strides forward in the past 15
years, including the introduction of formal training, improved standards of patient care, increasing
consultant presence on the shop floor and better structured care systems. We still face the challeng-
es common to emergency medicine worldwide: crowding, high staff turnover, inter-specialty conflicts
(particularly with regard to boundaries of care) and ever-increasing expectations from the public.
However, with continued strong leadership in the specialty, we believe that the future is bright for
this young and developing discipline.
Standard Document Update
Baljit and her team have been busy tidying up
the Standards Document (V 2.0) , which is now
up on the IFEM Website here.
The first three consultants
at the Paediatric ED,
EWMSC.
From left to right: Dr Joanne
Paul, Dr Ian Sammy and Dr
Maritza Fernandes.
Name Role Region Email Address
Ffion Davies Chair, PEMSIG Europe [email protected]
Simon Chu Secretary/PEMSIG Aust & NZ [email protected]
Marianne Gausche-Hill PEMSIG CC North America [email protected]
Baljit Cheema Stnds Lead/PEMSIG CC
Africa [email protected]
Anglina Ang PEMSIG CC Asia [email protected]
Liliana Caceres PEMSIG CC Latin America [email protected]
Hezi Waisman PEMSIG CC Middle East [email protected]
Pia Malmquist Member Europe [email protected]
Mary Ryan Member Europe [email protected]
Joanne Paul Member Central America [email protected]
Indumathi Santhanam Member Asia [email protected]
Suresh Gupta Member Asia [email protected]
Kathleen Berry Member Europe [email protected]
Richard Aickin Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Jeremy Raftos Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Abdul Musa Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Camilo E. Gutiérrez Member North America [email protected]
Benjamin L. D'Souza Member Aust & NZ Benjamin.D'[email protected]
Franz Babl Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Rodrick Lim Member North America [email protected]
Anna Nikula Member Europe [email protected]
Radhika Raman Member Asia [email protected]
Randy Cordle Member North America [email protected]
Khalid Al Ansari Member Middle East [email protected]
Hisham AlOmran Member Middle East [email protected]
Andrew Rowland Member Europe [email protected]
Mark Lyttle Member Europe [email protected]
Meredith Borland Member Aust &NZ [email protected]
Sashikumar Gonapathy Member Asia [email protected]
Adriana Yock Corrales Member Central America [email protected]
Ian Sammy Member Central America [email protected]
Sharon Mace Member North America [email protected]
Mary McCaskill Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Itai Shavit Member Middle East [email protected]
Tham Lai Peng (Sharon) Member Asia [email protected]
Bob Schafermeyer Member North America [email protected]
Ed Oakley Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Ng Kee Chong Member Asia [email protected]
Chong Shu-ling Member Asia [email protected]
John Criddle Member Europe [email protected]
Stuart Dalziel Member Aust & NZ [email protected]
Haiko Jahn Member Europe [email protected]
Tim Ruttan Member North America [email protected]
PEMSIG - membership
We now have over 40 members! Please check your details and advise of any amendments. Don’t
forget to help with our recruitment campaign. If you know of anyone who would like to join, please
invite them. Expressions of interest to: [email protected]