St. Emlyn's

St. Emlyn's
St. Emlyn's virtual hospital
Geography
Location	World Wide Web, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Education
Type	Emergency Medicine
Affiliated university	Manchester Metropolitan University
Services
Emergency department	Adult and Paediatric services on site
Beds	infinite
History
Opened	2003
Links
Website	http://www.stemlyns.org.uk
Lists	[[List of hospitals in England |Hospitals in England ]]

St. Emlyn’s is a virtual hospital developed by educationalists based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, England. It incorporates online learning materials, a blog, and a podcast.

Development

In 2012, a blog was added to the St. Emlyn's group of websites. The St. Emlyn’s blog was developed in June 2012 at the International Conference of Emergency Medicine (ICEM) in Dublin. It is an open access platform that promotes emergency medicine learning through the use of social media. The blog focuses on evidence-based medicine, clinical excellence, the philosophy of emergency medicine, and wellbeing.

Influence and impact

From June 2012 to January 2017, the blog has published 510 articles, approved and published 2,776 comments, and has had pages viewed over 1.25 million times. In 2019, the St. Emlyn's blog is listed as the 15th most influential emergency medicine/critical care blog according to the Social Media Index scoring system.

St. Emlyn's podcast

The St. Emlyn's podcast was founded in 2013. It follows the same four main topic themes of the St. Emlyn's blog and is produced by the same editorial team.

St. Emlyn's virtual learning environment

Initially, the site grew through the acquisition of increasing numbers of clinical cases. In 2006, the site was further developed to incorporate a virtual learning environment based on the open-source course management system Moodle. The VLE has allowed the original assorted cases to be themed into areas that reflect the College of Emergency Medicine curriculum. This is a unique approach to the delivery of a postgraduate medical education.