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Posted on 01-12-2006 21:23 by Morpheus

EM in our country...... whoa big question mark folks.....
on the one hand there are people who believe that yes EM should develop in india, surprisingly few of them exist in India.... most people who support EM are physicians from the west... the NRI community.... as i witnessed at the INTEM 2006.........
can you believe an international conference that happens in India every 4 years and yet there were more NRIs than indians in that conference...........
yes its a growing field... ok ok my mistake ....... its a field thats still in the womb actually. The reason i believe EM has not come up in India to the extent it should have after almost a hundred years of quality medical care ( if i can dare to say that) is that its not born yet.

Emergency Medicine is not yet a recognised specialty in India, and mind you i am reffering to the academic part of medicine. Yes there are multiple corporates in the field of EM today, yes there are multiple ambulance services that boast of being hospital on wheels, but still there is no concerted effort into developing EM as a specialty.

AS SOME ONE RIGHTLY SAID TO ME ONCE
"THE THING IN INDIA IS ...... THERE IS A LOT OF INDIVIDUAL KNOWLEDGE BUT NO COLLECTIVE WISDOM."

Whats a football team with 10 strikers there need to be midfielders, defenders and most importantly goal-keepers as well if you can understand the pun intended.

As for me there needs to be following goals underlined for developing EM in india....
1. Recognise EM as a specialty.......which in turn will lead to more awareness about the field espescially in the medical colleges where EM still relates to the casualty where people are brought..... phone calls made and thats it....death declared in a few hours i guess.

2. Recognize premier institutes who already have established EM departments to collaborate and formulate a defined EM curriculum

3. Educate and re educate the existing medical fraternity about the need and the benefits of EM, as health care needs increase in the country.

4. Recognize existing excellence in EM and EMS in india

5. Collaborate with willing universities abroad to give a taste of the future of EM to trained Emergency Physicians in India.

6. Introduce EM as a subset of Medicine taught at undergrad level.

Yes the bottom line no longer is 'Ignorance is bliss.'
Some time or the other our sleep needs to be broken and its not wise to wake up when there is an ongoing nightmare.

yes EM will develop........ time frame well even a fool wouldnt tread there as of today.