Microgrants are a novel concept where small grants are used to facilitate research. The concept might have a place in developing emergency medicine research, especially in countries where emergency medicine is not established or in new areas of research. Two examples of the beneficial effects of microgrants in emergency medicine research are described. Emergency medicine interest groups and fou...

Jing Li, Huashan Wang, Qiang Zhong, Xiangdong Zhu, Sy-Jou Chen, Yuanyu Qian, Jim Costakis, Gabrielle Bunney, David G. Beiser, Alan R. Leff, E. Douglas Lewandowski, J. Michael O Donnell, and Terry L. Vanden Hoek Program in Advanced Resuscitation Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research, and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, I...

Pankaj Arora, Anita Bhavnani, Tamorish Kole and Chris Curry Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Accident & Emergency Services, Max Healthcare, New Delhi, India; and Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Western Australia...

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...

Section Editor: David P. Way, MEd Submission history: Submitted June 14, 2016; Revision received September 19, 2016; Accepted October 10, 2016 Electronically published November 15, 2016 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.10.31232 [West J Emerg Med. 2017;18(1)26-30.] North Shore University Hospital, Department of Emergenc...

There have been few reports published in English on emergency medicine (EM) in Japan; the main reason for this is that the concept of EM was different in Japan from that in western countries. In the 1960s, legislation was passed in Japan that implemented emergency medical services, and emergency hospitals were designated by the government. There were no emergency medicine specialists, and so su...