Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative Clinico-pathologic Case Competitions Celebrate 20 Years of Competitive Educational Learning Experience

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Emergency medicine is established in many countries but remains a relatively new specialty in India, only becoming a separate academic discipline in 2009. Emergency care had previously been delivered by physicians without specialized training. To strengthen knowledge, the Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative began annual EM conferences in 2005, introducing clinico-pathologic case (CPC) competitions from the start, which later expanded to global participation through the World Academic Council of EM.

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The Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative

Derivation of the Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative Clinico-pathologic Case Format

| Point-of-View | | --- | | | Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative Clinico-pathologic Case Competitions Celebrate 20 Years of Competitive Educational Learning Experience Praveen Aggarwal, Sagar Galwankar1, Indrani Sardesai2, Sari Soghoian3, Sage W. Wiener4 Department of Emergency Medicine, Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India, 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 3Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU Langone Hospital Center, NYCH+H/ Bellevue, 4Department of Emergency Medicine, Suny Downstate Health Sciences University, NYCH+H/Kings County, New York, NY, USA, 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Gateshead (City) Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK Abstract Emergency medicine (EM) is well established in many countries but is a relatively new specialty in India., EM was not officially declared a separate academic discipline in India until 2009, and therefore, emergency care to sick patients was being provided by physicians without any training. To enhance knowledge of such doctors, Indo‑US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative started annual conferences in EM in 2005. In these annual conferences, clinico‑pathologic case (CPC) competition was introduced since the beginning. Later, the World Academic Council of EM was formed, and CPC competitions were taken at the global level. In this article, we describe the growth of this event. Keywords: Clinico‑pathologic case competition, Council of Residency Directors in Emergency medicine, Indo‑US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative (INDUSEM), world academic council of emergency medicine IntroductIon Emergency medicine (EM) is well‑established in many countries but is a relatively new specialty in India. Although efforts to establish EM were being made at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, since 1989, it was not officially declared a separate academic discipline until 2009. Until that time, emergency care was being provided by doctors without specialized training. The need of the hour was to impart training to doctors in emergency care by organizing continuing medical education programs and conferences with the help of leaders and doyens of EM. The annual clinico‑pathologic case (CPC) competition was introduced by the Indo‑US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative (INDUSEM) in 2005 as one such educational initiative. We describe the introduction of this event, which has since grown to the global competition it is today. the Indo‑uS emergency and trauma collaboratIve INDUSEM was formalized in 2005 as an academic movement to develop EM and trauma sciences in India using partnerships | Access this article online | | | --- | --- | | Quick Response Code:
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10.4103/jets.jets_ 137_25 | with academicians and academic institutions across both India and the United States of America. The first annual INDUSEM Summit was held atAIIMS, New Delhi, in that same year. INDUSEM summits grew over the years, ultimately attracting participants from several other countries in addition. Once it became apparent that there was a need for abroader global platform to expand international collaboration within academic EM and trauma sciences, INDUSEM championed the formation of the World Academic Council of EM (WACEM). This forum united physicians, researchers, and institutions from across the globe in an integrated fashion. Address for correspondence: Prof. Praveen Aggarwal, Department of Emergency Medicine, Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India. E‑mail: [12praveenaggarwal@gmail.com](12praveenaggarwal@gmail.com) This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND), where it is permissi

FAQs

When did emergency medicine become an officially separate academic discipline in India?

Emergency medicine was not officially declared a separate academic discipline in India until 2009.

What educational initiative did INDUSEM introduce in its annual conferences starting in 2005?

Clinico-pathologic case (CPC) competitions were introduced from the beginning of the annual conferences.

How did the CPC competitions expand beyond India?

After the World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine (WACEM) was formed, CPC competitions were taken at the global level, and the INDUSEM CPC became a World CPC competition in 2015.

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