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International Federation for Emergency Medicine model curriculum for medical student education in emergency medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Cherri Hobgood ,
Venkataraman Anantharaman ,
Glen Bandiera ,
Peter Cameron ,
Pinchas Halperin ,
James Holliman ,
Nicholas Jouriles ,
Darren Kilroy ,
Terrence Mulligan  and
Andrew Singer
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Cherri Hobgood*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Venkataraman Anantharaman
Affiliation:
Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Glen Bandiera
Affiliation:
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto Ont.
Peter Cameron
Affiliation:
Alfred Hospital Emergency and Trauma Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Pinchas Halperin
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
James Holliman
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.
Nicholas Jouriles
Affiliation:
Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio
Darren Kilroy
Affiliation:
College of Emergency Medicine, London, UK
Terrence Mulligan
Affiliation:
Erasmus University School of Medicine, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Andrew Singer
Affiliation:
Canberra Hospital, Woden, Australia
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, CB 7594, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; hobgood@med.unc.edu

Abstract

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There is a critical and growing need for emergency physicians and emergency medicine resources worldwide. To meet this need, physicians must be trained to deliver time-sensitive interventions and life-saving emergency care. Currently, there is no internationally recognized standard curriculum that defines the basic minimum standards for emergency medicine education. To address this deficiency, the International Federation for Emergency Medicine convened a committee of international physicians, health professionals and other experts in emergency medicine and international emergency medicine development, to outline a curriculum for foundation training of medical students in emergency medicine. This curriculum document represents the consensus of recommendations by this committee.

The curriculum is designed with a focus on the basic minimum emergency medicine educational content that any medical school should be delivering to its students during undergraduate training. It is designed not to be prescriptive, but to assist educators and emergency medicine leadership in advancing physician education in basic emergency medicine content. The content would be relevant not just for communities with mature emergency medicine systems, but also for developing nations or for nations seeking to expand emergency medicine within current educational structures. We anticipate that there will be wide variability in how this curriculum is implemented and taught, reflecting the existing educational milieu, the resources available and the goals of the institutions' educational leadership.

Keywords

curriculuminternational emergency medicinemedical educationmedical students
Type
Education • Enseignement
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , July 2009 , pp. 349 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2009

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