About FORGE Medical
A training academy for advanced emergency medicine
FORGE Medical is based in Pretoria, South Africa. We run high quality, bespoke, hands-on courses in the procedures and decisions that matter most when a patient is crashing.
Why FORGE exists
Many of the procedures that save a life or a limb in the emergency department are rare. A clinician can go years between real cases, then have to perform one correctly the first time, often without a surgeon in the room.
FORGE courses close that gap with deliberate, supervised practice on realistic models, in groups small enough that every delegate does every procedure.
How we teach
Hands on, from the first minute
Real tissue where it counts
Procedural courses use fresh cadaveric tissue. Planes, resistance and anatomy behave the way they will when you have to do it for real.
Four to a station
Groups stay small so every delegate performs every procedure, with faculty correcting technique at the bedside rather than from the front of the room.
Taught by practising clinicians
Faculty are real emergency, critical care and retrieval clinicians who teach from current practice, including when to do a procedure and when not to.
Faculty
Practising clinicians
FORGE faculty are emergency, critical care and retrieval clinicians who perform and teach these skills in their own practice. More faculty will be named as each course’s dates are announced.
Specialist Emergency Physician
Dr Neville Vlok
MBChB (UP), FCEM (SA), MMed EM (UCT), MPhil EM (UCT), DipPEC (SA), DipRTM (RCSEd)
Neville is a specialist emergency physician and the founder of FORGE Medical, where he is developing its first course, BLADE. He works in the emergency department of a private hospital in Pretoria, where he is also involved in strategy and performance. He holds the Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and examines for it, and reviews helicopter emergency medical service activations as an aeromedical consultant. He is a course director for ATLS. His interests include retrieval medicine, extracorporeal life support and the rare procedures that decide the first hour.
BLADE faculty
To be announced
The station instructors for the first BLADE course will be named when its dates are confirmed.
Course faculty
To be announced
Faculty for RAPTOR, SHOCK, REACT, VENT, PULSE and SURGE will be named as each course opens.
Courses are for registered healthcare professionals. CPD accreditation is applied for course by course and confirmed with each date.