BACKGROUND There has been no previous study into the state of emergency medicine in Azerbaijan. As a legacy of the Soviet Semashko system, the "specialty" model of emergency medicine and integrated emergency departments do not exist here. Instead, pre-hospital emergency care is delivered by ambulance physicians and in-hospital care by individual departments, often in specialty hospitals. Emerge...

BACKGROUND The Republic of India, the world's most populous democracy, has struggled with establishing Emergency Medical Care. However, with the recent recognition of Emergency Medicine as a formal specialty in medical training, there has been renewed vigor in the developments in the field. METHOD AND RESULTS We outline here the building blocks of the health care system in India, and the cont...

D.R. Vinson1,2,3; J.E. Morley4; J. Huang3; V. Liu1,3,5; M.L. Anderson1,2; C. E. Drenten6; R.P. Radecki7; D.K. Nishijima4; M.E. Reed3; on behalf of the Kaisers Permanente CREST Network 1The Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, Roseville, California; 3Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, Californi...

The Committee on Issues of the Association for Academic Surgery surveyed the Association’s membership, surgical department chairmen, and university hospital emergency department directors as to their attitudes about the role of surgeons and emergency medicine specialists in emergency care. Major differences in attitudes exist between surgeons and nonsurgeons regarding the surgeon’s role in the ...

Emergency Medicine (EM) is a relatively new specialty that is expanding at a phenomenal pace across the world. Within the international community, leaders in medicine, health economics, public health, and government have recognized the importance of developing systems that respond to acute medical and surgical emergencies, and that emergency medicine is a unique discipline that possesses the bo...

Systems-Based Practice (SBP) is the sixth competency defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Outcome Project. Specifically, SBP requires "Residents [to] demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value." This competenc...

OBJECTIVE To describe outcomes of a third-year residency (PGY-3) program in family medicine/emergency medicine in terms of its graduates' practice characteristics and their self-assessed preparedness for practising emergency medicine. DESIGN A questionnaire was sent to graduates of Queen's University's family medicine residency programs. SETTING Recent graduates' practices. PARTICIPANTS A...

Currently, there is no internationally recognised, standard curriculum that defines the basic minimum standards for emergency medicine education. To address this, the International Federation for Emergency Medicine convened a committee of international experts in emergency medicine and international emergency medicine development to outline a global curriculum for medical students in emergency ...

introduction: ambulatory care is an inseparable part of health care system. it is commonly considered as the entrance of the patient to the health care system. high qualify ambulatory care has an important role in reducing mortality and morbidity rates. on the other hand, quality of information has an important role in the quality and safety of ambulatory health care. it is hence necessary to p...