On June 5, I attended the JeevaRaksha Conference that was taking place on June 6 in India. The conference featured a variety of presentations given by incredibly talented and well-educated doctors. I attended the first Stream synchronously from 9:45pm-midnight. The first presentation consisted of an update on CPR and resuscitation guidelines. Despite having taken a CPR/BLS class earlier this year, there were certain updates that I wasn’t even aware of. The next presentations discussed how education and simulation training have adapted because of COVID. It was incredible the amount of research and thought that has been put into ensuring that students still receive a holistic education and are consistently engaged. The final presentation I attended synchronously was about resilience in rural India. I found this particularly interesting because I had little previous knowledge on the topic and therefore learned a lot.
I was fortunate that the entire conference was being recorded and live streamed to YouTube, this allowed me to go back and finish watching the rest of the conference on my own time. This solved the issue of having to mitigate the different time zones. Overall, it was such an honor being able to attend this conference. As highlighted within the conference, one benefit to the pandemic has been to availability and increase of educational opportunities to demographics and audiences that normally wouldn’t have access to such opportunities. I am very thankful for Dr. Rekha for alerting me of this conference and helping provide me with the links to access it.
