EST is a meeting of people who practice emergency medicine in all its forms - It's core component is acute care surgery but it includes emergency medicine, critical care and all other disciplines in their connection to emergency medicine.

Emergency medicine, with all of its components, is becoming less and less attractive in our current medical landscape. It is a branch of medicine with increased difficulty, high mortality, and a high degree of unpredictability. It requires more than just sound technical knowledge - it requires resilience, leadership, environment control and flexibility.

Making extremely impactful decisions in a very short amount of time is difficult and can be taxing on the physicians as well as the patients, often creating second victims that need support and powerful coping mechanisms for delivering excellence the next day. One of our aims is show that all these "negative" characteristics are what make our field beautiful and to make acute care surgery and its connected fields attractive to physicians and medical students.

We wish to create a meeting that delivers education in these fields, highlighting the need for the harmonious collaboration of people in these disciplines - in our mind, the only setup that delivers excellence. Our meeting is aimed towards general surgeons, emergency physicians and intensive care physicians. However, we feel that any medical or surgical specialty that has contact with urgent situations will benefit from the knowledge our meeting has to offer.

The format of our meeting will be geared towards maximum productivity. The clasic conference format will be replaced by a new one aimed to offer meaningful information at every session. Our meeting will have two sections: The EST Workshops and The EST Talks.

EST Talks

The EST Talks will be held in the evening, between 17:30 and 21:30. They will be divided into 20-minute sections: Expert Talks or Round Tables.

The Expert Talks will be a 20-minute talk given by a worldwide expert in the field. Moving away from the 8 minute/talk format, with a very wide spectrum and a very narrow benefit, will increase the value of the talks for the audience. The subject will be a very narrow part of the respective field and it will be covered by an expert in that field - a person who conducts research or has extensive expertise in that particular topic.

The Round Tables will be 20-minute Q&A sessions moderated by local faculty regarding controversial or extremely impactful topics in the fields of acute care surgery, emergency medicine or critical care. The questions addressed to the experts will be selected by the moderators after engaging with the public (Social Media sessions in the months preceding the meeting will request questions for the experts from our community).

The EST talks will have the following precise goals:

• to impart extremely useful knowledge to clinicians, knowledge that can be used the next day to save lives.
• to highlight recent, practice changing progress in a field; to show the value and impact of recent publications.
• to inspire and drive forward personal or institutional change that will lead to better care for our patients.
• to show the beauty of emergency medicine, acute care surgery and critical care.