International emergency medicine continues to grow and expand. There are now more than
30 countries that recognize emergency medicine as a specialty. As the field continues to …

Objective: A consensus panel of Emergency Physicians with experience in international
health has published a recommended curriculum for a formal fellowship in International …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2010; 17: 748–757© 2010 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Objectives: The objective was to describe the …

Background Recent international events, including the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Pakistan
flood, war and reported genocide in Sudan, US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the …

Introduction: Events such as September 11, 2001, the 2005 tsunami in southeast Asia, and
hurricane Katrina in the United States have emphasized the necessity for disaster medicine …

Background The past decade has seen a worldwide increase in demand for EM services.
Global trends toward greater urbanization and increasing population density have been …

Emergency medicine, globally, is a developing specialty. The President of International
Federation for Emergency Medicine penned down in a 2007 editorial that emergency …

International emergency medicine (IEM), a subspecialty of emergency medicine (EM), is
concerned with the development of emergency medical care in other countries. Accordingly …

In 1996, Christopher JL Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health and Alan D. Lopez of
the World Health published a document entitled ''The Global Burden of Disease: A …

Context: The recent interest and development of international emergency medicine has led
to academic fellowships that aid in preparing emergency medicine physicians to work in the …