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Natalie May brings the lessons she has learnt from Sydney HEMS training and teaches you how to apply them to your practice. What can hospital specialties learn from teaching and training in prehospital and retrieval medicine? Natalie, a self-described medical education enthusiast, gives you her thoughts on the application of educational theory to the challenges of the prehospital environment. Evidently, Natalie will discuss three domains of medical education – Induction, Competence and Culture. Firstly, Induction How do you welcome new staff to your service? In Sydney HEMS there is a week-long full team training. This teaches new clinicians to contextualise pre-existing knowledge into their new environment. Here, they combine teaching tools including demonstration, simulation, discussion and debriefs. This is often in stark contrast to in-hospital inductions that can consist of a cursory department tour and online modules. Moreover, Natalie discusses the medical education principles that provide the basis of