Professor Steve Goodacre gives the David Williams lecture at RCEM

Steve Goodacre gives the 2026 David Williams lecture at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific meeting

Steve Goodacre stands on a stage behind a lectern with slides of colleagues projected behind him.

Steve Goodacre gave the David Williams lecture at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting (with a few familiar faces looking over his shoulder!). 

The lecture was titled 'Should we follow the science?'. Steve argued that clinicians should not passively follow the science but should actively engage with research to produce information that helps their decision-making. 

He argued that, far from replacing clinicians, developments in computational complexity (including artificial intelligence) increase the need for clinicians who understand how research works and how it applies to patients.
 

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