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I am having a WICMEL day today. I am currently preparing to chair my meeting, a focal part of the Emerging Leadership Programme and an opportunity to hone my skills, thinking about the conduct of a meeting as much as its content

Written by Dr Emily Howells

I had just started a clinical teaching fellowship and was copied into an email:
“Anna will help support the undergraduate [critical care] module this year” …

Written by: Dr Anna Stout

Hands up if over the last 2 years you have come to physically shudder when anyone mentions the word ‘resilience’?...

Written by Dr Christine Watson

If you haven’t come across this new addition to NHS Blood and Transplant’s (NHSBT) list of acronyms, it stands for Trainee Representative in Organ Donation (TROD)...

Written by: Dr Claire Mitchell and Dr Madeleine Wood

Having attended previous mentorship courses and workshops I have always realised the benefits of being both a mentor and mentee, yet I have never before signed up to have a mentor. Why? I guess I was worried...

Written by Dr Laura Coleman

I started my career in critical care nursing in 2007 only a few months after graduating as a registered nurse. I knew early on in my nurse training that I wanted to work in ICU...

Written by Dr Fran Tait

Should Intensive Care Medicine Registrars have training in Palliative Care?

Written by: Stuart Edwardson

In January 2018 I was at a bit of a loose end. I was in the last 6 months of my CT2b year of ACCS anaesthetics. During a theatre list I was talking to one of my consultants who recommended a year in Australia. What was meant to be one year out turned into four...

Written by Dr Emily Reynolds

This is an account of an unexpected major incident that involved 47 tourists and sadly resulted in the deaths of 22 people.

Written by: Dr Christopher I’Anson

I cycled in because how else was I meant to enjoy the unexpected heatwave during a 12-hour shift? This ran through my mind for the next 2 weeks whilst I sat home dealing with a fractured clavicle and maxillary sinus...

Written by Dr Alexandra Kendall-Smith