Anthony Seto

Anthony Seto is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He is certified in Family and Emergency Medicine, as an Event Medic, and also as a Lifeguard. Clinically, he practices in Event Medicine, Urgent Care, Rural Emergency, Virtual Medicine, and Flight Medicine.

For the past seven years, he has chaired the University of Calgary’s “Intro to Clinical Practice” course, designed to prepare medical students for clinical rotations through engaging approaches such as simulation and escape games for training in teamwork skills and on-call emergency management. This year, he is serving as the interim Medical Director of Alberta’s eSIM Provincial Simulation Program.

Anthony’s favourite events to work, as an event physician, are electronic dance music festivals. He energizes event medical teams during orientation with fun icebreaker games and facilitates in-situ simulations and educational sessions prior to event kick-off. He has also built a local community group of volunteers in mass gathering medicine, called “Mass Gathering Medicine Calgary” (https://sites.google.com/view/mgmcalgary), and created a dedicated elective in this field for clinical learners at the University of Calgary. In addition, he introduced an innovative, low-resource simulation approach called “Draw & Doodle Simulation” (https://sites.google.com/view/dndsim), which uses just paper and markers to facilitate simulation for event medical crews that is now used for other teaching contexts.