How many years does it take to establish a specialty in emergency medicine?

Methods An online questionnaire was sent to the national EM societies listed as members of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) and Iceland. The EM societies were contacted via public contact email-addresses and via the EuSEM office. Data from 31 countries were sought. The questionnaire housed three questions: 1) “What year was your national society in Emergency Medicine founded?” 2) “What year was EM recognized as a supraor subspecialty?” 3) “What year was EM recognized as a specialty (in its own right)?” Fisher’s exact test and t-test was used for analyses.