Jellybean 93 with Naomi Diel

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog The College of Intensive Care Annual Scientific Meeting is upon us. How do you make something like that happen? Lets ask Naomi Diel, part of last years organising committee. The CICM ASM is happening next month. It is in Hobart. That’s in Tasmania. Last year it was in Sydney. There are probably more first year ICU trainees in one hospital in Sydney than there are Intensivists of any description in the state of Tasmania. This year will be different. When I was a kid, many moons ago, Tasmania was a place I couldn’t ever possibly get to. It was very far away on the other side of the world. I could barely understand that it was real. It might as well have been another planet. When I was in my first year as an intensive care medicine trainee, many moons ago, the College of Intensive Care Medicine ASM was a place I couldn’t possibly get to. I could get there physically but it was expensive. I could barely expect to understand what they were talking about. It was filled with the people that actually wrote the text books that I was supposed to have read and memorised but I hadn’t opened yet. It may as well have been another planet. But I did go. I went to the ASM in Melbourne at the Sofitel in Melbourne and heard these men (and not enough women) speak about the brand new Sepsis Guidelines, the first ones. I remember listen...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: JellyBean Naomi Diel Source Type: blogs