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Dr Thomas Shanahan MRCEM
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ED Research Registrar (PGY8) at Royal Perth Hospital | Affiliate Researcher at Monash University | Major trauma & EM research. Husband🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇬🇧 views mine
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Dr Thomas Shanahan MRCEM @tshanahan0584.bsky.social · Aug 11
Really happy with outcome of ROPL application for U.K. EM training towards FACEM training.

TS1 complete, primary exam complete; 3 months TS2; half paediatrics requirement; major referral requirement for core ED; 6 months non-ED.

19 Aug I’ll hear if I got into training
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rcem.ac.uk
The first report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emergency Care has revealed the scale of corridor care in England, and the harrowing impact it has on patients.

The report, built on research compiled by RCEM through data, surveys and patient testimony, is here: rcem.ac.uk/press-rel...
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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November's EMJ podcast has dropped, featuring...

🐱Garfield the cat (guest appearance) & @drsarahedwards.bsky.social

🫀 Resuscitation manikins & diversity
🧠 Functional neurology
👶 Serious bacterial infection in infants
🚁 Sedation in HEMS

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November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Great opportunity for a research special skills #ED registrar job at Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Flinders.

There is a great research team in SA and lots of efforts to develop research opportunities for #ACEM trainees.

jobs.acem.org.au/job/3106/eme...
Emergency Medicine Special Skills Registrar Positions - ACEM Training Year 2026 (Flinders Medical Centre Emergency Department, Flinders Drive, Bedford Park SA, Australia)
Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Flinders Medical Centre – Emergency Medicine Total Indicative Remuneration Package: $106,225 - $172,348 MDP2 (pro rata) | Full Time, Contract in-line with SMOE...
jobs.acem.org.au
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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rcem.ac.uk
Dean of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor Simon Carley responds to the first phase of the Medical Training Review into postgraduate training of newly qualified medics, published by NHS England last week: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
RCEM responds to NHSE’s Medical Training Review   - RCEM
Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - Dean of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor Simon Carley responds to the first phase of the Medical Training Review (MTR) into postgraduate training of newly q...
rcem.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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rcem.ac.uk
A plan which outlines NHS England’s priorities for the next 3 years ‘offers no meaningful roadmap’ to reduce dangerous long waits in Emergency Departments.

Our response to NHS England’s Medium Term Planning Framework 2026/27-2028/29: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
NHSE’s three-year healthcare plan ‘offers no meaningful roadmap’ to tackle long waits in EDs  - RCEM
Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - A plan which outlines NHS England’s priorities for the next three years 'offers no meaningful roadmap’ to reduce dangerous long waits in Emergency Departments.
rcem.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
tshanahan0584.bsky.social
My poster at the ANZ Trauma Society Trauma Conference in Wellington. Great few days learning about cutting edge trauma research and practice. Enjoyed catching up with colleagues, meeting up with the trauma in older people community of practice and thinking about future collaborations.

#ANZTS25
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew."

"Commentator of the Year"
jwsidders.bsky.social JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · Sep 28
No-one is surprised, Matthew. Absolutely no-one.
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
I do think this has been a week in which new levels of 'why don't senior Labour politicians understand we can ALL hear them' have been reached. Why would Andy Burnham do a 'I'm gonna hike taxes on London and the south, you're all rich!' Why would Steve Reed use 'regional politician' as a putdown?
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 26
Talking Starmer vs Burnham, Liberal Democrat conference and all that on this week's FT Political Fix podcast:
Does Starmer have a northern problem?
A look-ahead to the Labour party conference in Liverpool
www.ft.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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New paper out in @age-and-ageing.bsky.social: Maintaining independence at home after a fall: a process evaluation of the MAINTAIN multicomponent intervention for people living with dementia. Read it here: academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
Maintaining independence at home after a fall: a process evaluation of the MAINTAIN multicomponent intervention for people living with dementia
AbstractBackground. People with dementia who have a fall can experience both physical and psychological effects, often leading to diminished independence.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
tshanahan0584.bsky.social
Happy to have my TS2 rotations confirmed for next year - 9 months MMC Clayton ED and 3 months Casey anaesthetics. Now need to just find a place to live.
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Nau mai, haere mai.

www.govt.nz/browse/immig...
Work that leads to residence
If you’re 55 or younger and want to live in New Zealand (NZ) permanently, you can apply for a resident visa, or a work visa that leads to residence after working here for 2 years.
www.govt.nz
September 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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What Factors Could Create a More Comfortable Waiting Experience for Patients on Emergency Department Ramps? A Scoping Review - Binnie - 2025 - Emergency Medicine Australasia - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
<em>Emergency Medicine Australasia</em> | ACEM Journal | Wiley Online Library
Ambulance ramping is the situation where patients who arrive by ambulance are forced to queue for access to an emergency department (ED) cubicle. Despite efforts to address the problem of ambulance r...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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emajournal.bsky.social
An interim care plan model of care for direct inpatient admissions

doi.org/10.1111/1742...

@wiley.com
#MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #emimcc #ACEM
September 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Empiric antibiotics for acute pyelonephritis

doi.org/10.1111/1742...

#OpenAccess

@wiley.com
#MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #emimcc #ACEM
September 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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emajournal.bsky.social
The relationship between the duration of transfer and the risk of in-flight deterioration in aeromedical trauma patients

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1111/1742...

@wiley.com @emfoundation.bsky.social
#MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #emimcc #ACEM
September 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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emajournal.bsky.social
ED headache patients without neurological features who are diagnosed with a serious secondary headache cause

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1111/1742...

@wiley.com @gkeijzers.bsky.social
#MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #emimcc #ACEM
September 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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emajournal.bsky.social
The Gendered Double Burden in Emergency Medicine

doi.org/10.1111/1742...

@wiley.com
#MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #emimcc #ACEM
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
A debate Labour badly needs to have:
Labour must champion inclusivity to tackle advance of far right, says deputy leadership hopeful
Exclusive: Alison McGovern says party needs emotive storyteller to fight against division promoted by Reform
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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It's possible that something good has come of the Rayner affair. There is such an urgent need for this conversation in Labour right now, for some kind of beating heart to the project - a memory that it does actually have values it is prepared to fight for www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour must champion inclusivity to tackle advance of far right, says deputy leadership hopeful
Exclusive: Alison McGovern says party needs emotive storyteller to fight against division promoted by Reform
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Read @jilldlawrence.bsky.social!

www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-i...
Here’s a Shocking Idea: Democrats Don’t All Have to Sound Alike
Four candidates in wildly different races show the value of being yourself.
www.thebulwark.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
tshanahan0584.bsky.social
Cost of training is one thing to factor in with any move of country.

U.K. was pretty high. But wildly high in Australia and only going up and up.

I guess you can get some back on tax in a year 🧐 🤔
September 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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emajournal.bsky.social
Patients who leave without being seen

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@wiley.com
#MedSky #EMSky #EMedSky #emimcc #ACEM
September 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Tough winter in WA, not helped by poor IT and infrastructure
Senior doctor warns WA emergency departments run like 'disaster situation'
A senior WA emergency department doctor describes his workplace as running in a "disaster situation", struggling within a health system which has an "unhealthy fixation" on ambulance ramping.
www.abc.net.au
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Voluntary erasure from the GMC medical register granted ✅

Pretty painless TBF and no only money to one regulator as it should be
September 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
tshanahan0584.bsky.social
Very pleased to have two abstracts accepted for poster presentations at ACEM annual scientific meeting on the Gold Coast in November.

One is on high vs low energy major trauma in the U.K. The other is on resuscitative hysterotomy in ED in pregnant trauma patients at RMH

#ASM2025
August 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM