#Postards from the ED

There are educational courses and there are inspirational courses. I had the opportunity this weekend to participate at BASE Camp. The brainchild of Kevin Ching, it’s an amazing and unique two days of education.

For those of you who don’t know about this great opportunity, it is, as the website says:

a high-intensity, fully immersive weekend of simulated pediatric emergencies where fellows and nurses work together in multidisciplinary teams to manage critically ill and injured children and adolescents

BASE Camp certainly lives up to this, but perhaps the best aspect of the course is the amazing feedback participants get after each case.  By the end of the second day it was moving to see the sense of common purpose and renewed enthusiasm for what we do every day that was clearly visible in all the participants. As I said, there are educational courses and then there are inspirational ones.  This one is definitely both…

#Postcard from the ED