In this episode we chat to Professor Kathryn Chu, head of Global Surgery at Stellenbosch University, about how to improve access to surgical care in South Africa.

In this episode we discuss Emergency Medicine education, as well as education for healthcare workers in general. We touch on short courses and when they are valuable, we chat about soft skills and how to develop them, as well as how meducation is changing, and how to augment traditional teaching with technological change.

Health Tech is a buzz at the moment, but what Juandré Klopper and his team do at Cape MedTech and Sponsor Medic, is adapt that to lower income needs and resources.Listen to how a young Doctor with no experience in the Tech or business world is changing the game.https://capemedtech.com/https://sponsormedic.co.za/https://www.linkedin.com/in/juandr%C3%A9-klopper-709a33157/See posters for WCGHW EMS Research day on link below:https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1152453066883551&set=pcb.1152453086883549

From Pietermaritzburg to Gaza, and a whole lot of places in between, Dr Sandy Inglis has practiced Emergency Medicine in a vast array of settings. Juxtaposing high income countries to war torn areas, his unique career offers insights into what Emergency Medicine is, what different systems can learn from each other, and how to wear the hat that the patient in front of you needs to to wear at any given time.

In episode 9 we chat to Neville "Kussie" van Rensburg - a self made world expert in the art of rescue operations, about his career, some basics of the pre-hospital healthcare, and some important perspectives for today's healthcare providers.

We talk palliative care with Emergency Physician Dr Katya Evans. If everyone in the Healthcare system (regardless of your field) applies basic palliative care principles, we can improve the lives of patient's, families and healthcare workers, as well as benefit the healthcare system in terms of cost, time and resource saving.Resources: The Case Report - https://www.thecase.report/https://www.spict.org.uk/the-spict/spict-sa/https://ecog-acrin.org/resources/ecog-performance-status/https://palprac.org/https://apcc.org.za/https://health.uct.ac.za/continuing-education-unit/introduction-palliative-carehttps://health.uct.ac.za/school-public-health/postgraduate-teaching-postgraduate-diploma-family-medicine/postgraduate-diploma-palliative-medicine

In this episode we discuss the journey of Vula, an innovative app that has been helping healthcare workers for over 10 years. To implement a good idea into practice in a complex healthcare system takes time, patience, money and resilience.Certain people, like our guest, Dr William Mapham have showcased that resilience and continue to inspire change and groundbreaking thinking.https://www.vulamobile.com/

In this episode we chat about the ever complex dynamics between Emergency Medicine and Radiology and how new advances in Radiology can improve patient outcomes and system efficiency.Visit www.ctir.co.za for more information of the scope of Dale's practice at Groote Schuur and UCT Private hospital.

In this episode we discuss how data can be used to improve efficiency, how to bridge the gap between upstairs management and downstairs provision, and then we discuss the NHI and how it will change Emergency Care provision in South Africa.Accronyms:NHI - National Health InsuranceNHLS - National Health Laboratory ServiceHIS - Health information systemICT - Information and Communication TechnologyPMI - Patient Master IndexNHI Links: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-05-21-nhi-there-are-constructive-and-contentious-aspects/https://www.health.gov.za/nhi/https://www.health.gov.za/nhi-faq/Dr Tshegofatso Maimela is a Public Health and Preventative Medicine Physician with over a decade of public health medicine experience and 17 years of clinical practice across both public and private sectors. She has a deep passion for patient-focused health care solutions for individuals, families, organizations, and communities and she leads the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital’s monitoring and evaluation directorate together with its information management unit (IMU), providing data products to measure and monitor health service delivery outcomes and service efficiencies for data informed decision-making within the institution. Dr Maimela additional functions as a joint appointment staff within the WITS university’s School of Public Health, Department of Community Health teaching both under graduates and post graduates in the discipline of Public Health Medicine. Dr Maimela provides strategic and operational coordination for NHI readiness and is responsible for the communication and implementation support of clinical and administrative programs in 14 referring facilities in the academic health complex. She serves on the Health Systems Strengthening Committee of the Health Systems Trust as an external Public Health Physician Expert in the organisation’s programmatic implementation function. Dr Maimela is a cofounder of Praxis Public Health, a strategic and implementation thought partner for health practitioners, group practices, hospital groups, medical aid providers, health societies, businesses, national health program funders and ministries of health on health systems strengthening strategies, goals and translational activities in both the local and global context. She may be contacted at publicpraxishealth@gmail.com, or visit her website www.praxispublichealth.com

In this episode we discuss the use of ultrasound in Emergency Medicine, as well as other areas of medicine, the accreditation process and it's controversies, and how new advances in technology and artificial intelligence can help bring skills to more people and more patients

In this episode we chat about how to to set a brand new Emergency Service in a system that does not have one, and the complexities of system development in low resource settings.

In this episode we discuss how to adapt research to an lower resource setting, how to unite the different silos in our healthcare system, and how to teach communication to healthcare workers to bridge gaps.

Almero Oosthuizen is an Emergency Specialist who works for the Directorate for Clinical Service Improvement for the Western Cape Department of Health. In this episode we chat about health justice, dissemination of ideas and skills, and problem solving in South African Healthcare.

In our first episode - we chat to Almero Oosthuizen about health Justice, Systems in South African healthcare, Disseminating ideas and knowledge on a broader level in South Africa, and how to solve problems in a non linear way.