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It was great to see so many of you at SAM Glasgow back in October and we hope you enjoyed the conference and found it worthwhile. There were so many excellent sessions together with the opportunity to mix with acute medicine colleagues it’s hard to imagine anyone leaving without feeling positive.
We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. Apart from making all the usual resolutions, New Year is always a time to think about our careers, look at our CV’s and strive to improve ourselves towards our ARCP or CCT. Our spring conference will take place in Amsterdam this May on 1st-2nd May and there is plenty of opportunity for you to get involved! This year we will be joined by the Dutch Medical Society (DAM). The SAM conferences always provides us with an opportunity for networking, presenting our hard work and meeting other trainees throughout the UK (and in this case Holland). It will be interesting to hear what the Dutch trainees think about their training and how it is structured. There is a dedicated session on acute medical education and training. It will be useful to certainly combine and share ideas with our Dutch colleagues. We certainly could learn a lot from each other and therefore improve our training.
Our acute awareness week will take place on 14th-20th July. This is a huge chance for us to raise awareness of our speciality to the public and other hospital workers. You often find that people don’t understand what acute medicine actually is or what an acute medical registrar or consultant actually does. This is an opportunity for us to ‘celebrate’ our speciality and enjoy team bonding. The junior doctors enjoy getting involved and this often encourages them to think about a career in acute medicine. Full details and information packs will be available via our website shortly. We will be interested to hear what you are all planning as we both have a huge part to play in this year’s acute awareness week. Perhaps one day we could have a training awareness day? It would be great if you got in touch with us to let us know your plans or suggestions! We hope to see as many of you in Amsterdam. Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions, ideas or concerns
Acute Medicine Awareness Week (AMAW) 14-20 July
You may have seen in the Springspring newsletter that there was a plan to do a “virtual marathon” from Edinburgh to Brighton for this year’s AMAW using a GPS tracker App. However, this has now been changed back to same format as in previous years but you can arrange any event you like from parachute jumping to a cake stall. In order to register your AMAW event contact SAM via communications@ acutemedicine.org.uk.
We hope you all enjoyed this summer’s hot spell and that those who moved jobs in August have now settled in. We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all the new acute medicine trainees, and look forward to representing your interests in this ‘new and vibrant’ speciality over the coming years.