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ArticleJournal of emergencies, trauma, and shock2014

The 2014 Academic College of Emergency Experts in India's Education Development Committee (EDC) White Paper on establishing an academic department of Emergency Medicine in India - Guidelines for Staffing, Infrastructure, Resources, Curriculum and Training.

Praveen Aggarwal, Sagar Galwankar, Om Prakash Kalra, Ashish Bhalla, Sanjeev Bhoi, Sundarajan Sundarakumar

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Article in Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. MS Emergency Medicine: The Correct Nomenclature.Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock
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6 authors.

Praveen AggarwalDepartment of Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Sagar GalwankarDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Winter Haven Hospital, University of Florida, Florida, USA.
Om Prakash KalraDepartment of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Ashish BhallaDepartment of Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Sanjeev BhoiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, New Delhi, India.
Sundarajan SundarakumarDepartment of Emergency Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emergency medicine services and training in Emergency Medicine (EM) has developed to a large extent in developed countries but its establishment is far from optimal in developing countries. In India, Medical Council of India (MCI) has taken great steps by notifying EM as a separate specialty and so far 20 medical colleges have already initiated 3-year training program in EM. However, there has been shortage of trained faculty, and ambiguity regarding curriculum, rotation policy, infrastructure, teachers' eligibility qualifications and scheme of examination. Academic College of Emergency Experts in India (ACEE-India) has been a powerful advocate for developing Academic EM in India. The ACEE's Education Development Committee (EDC) was created to chalk out guidelines for staffing, infrastructure, resources, curriculum, and training which may be of help to the MCI and the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to set standards for starting 3-year training program in EM and develop the departments of EM as centers of quality education, research, and treatment across India. This paper has made an attempt to give recommendations so as to provide a uniform framework to the institutions, thus guiding them towards establishing an academic Department of EM for starting the 3-year training program in the specialty of EM.

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Curriculumemergency medicinefaculty developmentrotation

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