Dr Sarah Dickson

I am now enrolled on the ACRRM programme in the NT, as of February 2026. My AST is yet to be decided. I am also enrolled in the Advanced Emergency Medicine Training Programme (AEMTP) with ACEM. I currently work at the Royal Darwin Hospital as a Senior ED Registrar, having finished 6 months at CareFlight in Darwin as a Retrieval Registrar in February 2025. Prior to this I was in Alice Springs Emergency Department as a Senior Registrar. I spent 10 months in Darwin working between Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals working as an Emergency Medicine Senior Registrar in 2023.

Prior to that, I spent 3 years working as a Senior Registrar at Worthing Hospital Emergency Department, UK. I completed UK ACCS Emergency Medicine training in 2019. I have done my FRCEM Primary and Intermediate exams.

Although I am a very competent senior registrar, the last years I have become increasingly conscious of my lack of exposure to regular critical care, particularly the procedural aspect of that. I am hoping to return to ICU to rectify this.

I have been involved in various research projects. Most recently, I was looking into eTriage and how it could be used as a redirection tool to help crowding and flow in UK emergency departments. I was first author on this work and it has been published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine (2021 and 2022) and was presented at the EUSEM conference 2021.

I have basic skills in ultrasound, but am always seeking to develop this further, and shall be enrolling on a course as part of my AEMTP. I hold valid ALS2 and European Trauma course certificates (invited for instructor after both of these). I also hold a valid MIMMS certificate. APLS is out of date but have a course booked for 2nd September 2026).

I completed a MSc in Global Health Policy at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in September 2024. My dissertation was on the Decolonisation of Emergency Medicine for Indigenous Peoples of Australia.

Historically, I have held special interests in refugee, Indigenous and resource-poor emergency health. I have volunteered in French and Greek Refugee camps delivering emergency health care in sometimes difficult conditions with scarce resources. Previously, I have done a lot of teaching on refugee health rights in the UK.

I hold a full UK and NT driving licence, and full motorbike licence.

Dr Aruna Shivam

Royal Darwin Hospital ED Consultant, and ACRRM and AEMTP supervisor

Aruna.Shivam@nt.gov.au

Dr Myat Win

Royal Darwin Hospital ED Consultant, Co-director of emergency Medicine Training

Myat.Win@nt.gov.au

Gustav.Lemke@nt.gov.au

I became fully registered with the GMC in August 2014 (currently paused licence to practice while I am practicing in Australia). 

GMC number 7427010

I hold a general licence with AHPRA.

AHPRA number MED0002688204

I have passed both the FRCEM Primary and Intermediate Exams

FRCEM Primary, June 2017

FRCEM Intermediate SJP, September 2018

FRCEM Intermediate SAQ, April 2018

1.Agreement and validity of electronic patient self- triage (eTriage) with nurse triage in two UK emergency departments: a retrospective study

-1st author publication in European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021

-Oral presentation at International EUSUM conference, Portugal 2021

2.Agreement and validity of eTriage with nurse triage of paediatric ambulatory attendances to two UK emergency departments.

-Published European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022

3. Introducing S100B Biomarker Point of Care Test in the UK Head Injury Guidelines, a Population Impact Analysis

- Poster presented at EUSEM, Glasgow, 2018

- Poster presented at Medlab Congress, Portugal, 2018

4. Management of chest pain in children at a South London Hospital

-First prize for poster presentation at PECSIG 2014, national paediatric cardiology conference.

5. Number of ECGs done and then the consequent management at a South London Hospital

-Poster presented at the Royal College Paediatrics and Child Health National Conference April 2015

Audit into the documentation of trauma calls at a Kent Trauma Centre

-Poster presented at regional trauma meeting, 2014

1. Major Incident Medical Management and Support course, Darwin 2024

2. European Trauma course, 2024 (invited for instructor training)

3. Paediatric Advanced Life Support, 2023, Darwin (NOT APLS)

4. Advanced Life Support 2, 2023 (invited for instructor training)

5 Level 1 Emergency Ultrasound, 2021 (Bromley Course)

6. Peer Support Practitioner Course, 2021

7. Advanced Paediatric Life Support, 2019

8. Advanced Trauma Life Support, 2017 (ETC booked February 2024, delay in renewal due to Covid)

9. Anaesthetic Novice Course, 2018

10. UCLH Trauma Simulation One Day Course, 2018

11. UCLH Silver Trauma Simulation One Day Course, 2018

11. UCLH Leadership and Management 2 Day Course, 2018

1. Global Health talk at Pan- London Emergency Medicine ACCS Conference, 2021.

2. Lecturer and small group facilitator at UCL for medical students on the Global Health and Public Health/Epidemiology modules. 2016-7, and 2018-9

3.Morning plenary: Why should we care? The human rights, ethical & legal and public health implications of mass migration; Conference “The challenges of child refugee health: everyone’s responsibility”, Royal Society of Medicine, 2017

- 20 minute lecture (Doctors of the World Representative)

- Member of panel for questions and discussion

4. “21st Century Healthcare”, RSM and ITN production 2017

- Programme Interviewee (Doctors of the World Representative)

5. “The plight of child refugees”, Hippochratic Post, 2017

- Article published

6. Access to healthcare for migrants; St George’s Medsin Conference 2017

i. 20 minute lecture (Doctors of the World Representative)

7. Reaching Further and Looking Back: An evaluation of the Doctors of the World pilot project in Hackney, 2016

-Project report published for Doctors of the World

8. Tackling TB in London: time to bring communities and community based organisations to the frontline. Stakeholder meeting, 2015

- 20 minute lecture: barriers that migrants and refugees face in London for diagnosis and treatment of TB (Doctors of the World Representative)

9. The King’s Fund Conference 2015 - Transforming patient experience; Improving experience of the most vulnerable, 2015

- 30 minute lecture: Described the DOTW Hackney clinic and access to health care for migrants (Doctors of the World Representative)

10. MPU Conference 2015 - Doctors and Medical Students – our role in saving the NHS, 2015

i. Chaired workshop on access to healthcare for refugees and migrants in the NHS (Doctors of the World Representative)

At RDH, I have helped facilitate ultrasound teaching for medical students, and did a lecture on seizures for the JMOs. 

Over the years I have regularly taught medical students on the ED shop-floor.

2021-2022 I supervised nurses in their practical physical assessment MSc modules at Brighton University, UK.

I have done a lot of teaching on refugee health rights through my Doctors of the World work as described elsewhere.

Boat Refugee Foundation, Moria Refugee Camp, November/December 2019

Working for Boat Refugee Foundation, who run a field emergency clinic in Moria Refugee Camp, Lesvos, Greece. This clinic was busy, seeing around 250 patients a shift (4pm-01am), dealing with a variety of medical, surgical and psychiatry emergencies. By the end of my time there I was also co-ordinating the clinic.

Volunteer doctor in Refugee Crisis, Athens, Greece, July 2018

I worked with DocMobile (now known as Medical Volunteers International), providing outreach health care for refugees living in and around the streets of Athens. I carried a bag with a limited supply of medications, wound care and basic tests and ran pop up clinics in a variety of locations reaching the most vulnerable of people.

Doctors of the World; Right to Care Project, 2015-18

I volunteered for the DOTW ‘Right to Care’ project to campaign for and implement migrant health into Medical School curriculum. This involved helping to design a lecture, with associated break-out sessions and small-group work. I also contacted universities directly and gave advice how it may be feasible to run such sessions. I also delivered the sessions in various medical schools including St George’s, York and UCL.

Project lead at Doctors of the World clinic, Hackney, 2015-16

This was largely an advocacy clinic. The clinic was commissioned by the Hackney CCG to relieve the pressures on A&E by helping migrants and other vulnerable people residing in Hackney to register with a GP. One day a week I ran the clinic. I managed volunteers who consulted with service users, and I oversaw the consultations. They helped the service users register with a GP but also managed the person holistically and asked a series of social questions to identify other issues that they may need help with. We could then direct them to the appropriate services and organisations. Many of the service users we saw were in very complex situations. Issues arising included immigration problems, people trafficking, domestic violence, poverty and destitution. I spent another day a week doing outreach work to try and target the appropriate population and make them aware of the service we are providing. I also did teaching and training with local healthcare professionals to promote the rights of migrants regarding access to health care.

Mandali School Project, 2016-17

In July 2016 I started the Mandali School Project. While travelling around Nepal I came across a school in the rural Gorkha region that was totally destroyed by the 2015 earthquake. I decided to rebuild it. Through a ‘buy a brick’ campaign, t-shirt selling and various fundraising events I raised £15,000 in 4 months. I partnered with an NGO called Nepali for Nepali to implement the project. We used compressed earth-brick technology to build a school in a cheap, sustainable, safe and eco-friendly way, while also creating jobs and business opportunities for local people. The structure is built, and is being used.

Calais and Dunkirk refugee camps, 2016

I visited the camps three separate times. The first of which I volunteered with L’Auberge des Migrants for a week and helped with general tasks in and around the camp at Calais. I worked in the warehouse, moved tents, delivered wood and gained an understanding of life in a refugee camp. The second time I was an independent volunteer in Dunkirk and once again did general tasks, helping out largely in the distribution tent. I also acted as an unofficial on the ground medical liaison, being the only person with medical experience out of hours. The third time I helped deliver and set up solar panels to power a school in the Calais camp.

Doctors of the World Clinic: 2014- 15

Before becoming project lead for the Hackney clinic I was a volunteer with doctors of the World.

I was a clinical support worker and my main role was to engage with service users and help them register with a local GP. I used this opportunity to build up enough rapport and trust to ask further questions and identify vulnerable people who may have other issues with immigration, health, domestic violence, people trafficking, homelessness, poverty etc. I then would refer and signpost them towards appropriate services that may be helpful to them. I now continue to volunteer with them but my work is largely around teaching and training various institutions about the rights, entitlements and barriers migrants face when accessing healthcare.

Refugee Therapy Centre: 2011-2012

This is a therapy centre specifically for refugees and asylum seekers living in London. They run individual and group therapies for those with PTSD, adjustment disorders, depression, anxiety and other mental health problems. My role was to run 1:1 sessions outside this therapy. These sessions aimed to generally build up a rapport with the service user, and in turn build their confidence, teach and practice english and generally help them acquire the social and emotional tools to engage with British life and people.

Community Medicine, Kerala, 2012

As part of my MBBS I spent 2 months working in the community department of a large private hospital in Cochin, Kerala, South India. My work involved assisting with outreach to local schools, fishing communities and slums. We did health checks on children, immunisations, home visits and lots of health promotion. I also helped run 2 health camps targeted for the local people who cannot afford healthcare. Spent some time observing in community doctor surgeries.

HIV therapy and family centre, Kathmandu, 2007

Before going to University I spent 3 months in Nepal volunteering in a centre for children newly diagnosed with HIV. The centre initiated medication but also taught parent and child about the disease, general health and nutrition and dealt with social, psychological and financial issues.