Postgraduate Seats in MCI Recognized Medical Colleges
15-Aug-2011
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Emergency Medical Services in India
13-Aug-2011

Apollo Hospital Group, Max Healthcare, Fortis Group, St Johns Medical College-Bangalore, Sri Ramachandra Medical University-Chennai, Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences-Kerala, CMC-Vellore, Lifeline Foundation and EMRI are the top medical institutes and EMS organisations providing specialised EMS.

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Medical Council of India Registers MCEM Qualification
11-Aug-2011
Editors Desk

In a landmark event, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has officially registered the MCEM qualification (Member of College of Emergency Medicine) given by the College of Emergency Medicine, United Kingdom, as a additional postgraduate qualification under the specialty of emergency medicine.

Dr. Ketan Patel, Head of Department of Emergency Medicine at Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad, who had applied for the recognition, was overjoyed on receiving the registration certificate, a copy of which he sent to us at EmergencyMedicine.in, today evening. He said that This event is not just recognition of MCEM, but is the recognition of emergency medicine in India. This is a great step forward for emergency medicine as a specialty. Dr. Ketan had passed the MCEM exams in 2007.

With this confirmation, the capability of Indian private institutes to create and contribute qualified emergency medicine professionals has increased phenomenally. These doctors can now work in Government hospitals and take the much needed expertise into the public & rural health sector. Emergency patients in India will be taken care by credentialed EM physicians, much earlier than expected.

- EmergencyMedicine.in


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Important Dates

June 2005
Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad becomes the first overseas examination center of the College of Emergency Medicine, UK, for the conduct of the MCEM examinations. 3 year residency training in emergency medicine commences.

January 2006
First Indian sitting of the MCEM Part A examination conducted at Hyderabad

July 2007
First Indian sitting of the MCEM Part B and Part C examinations conducted at Hyderabad. 3 physicians pass the MCEM.

March 2008
Notification passed by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to recognize all postgraduate qualifications awarded by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States of America.
Click here to see this notification (60Kb)
Click here to see list of acceptable postgraduate qualifications in UK

April 2009
EM residency training commences at Apollo Hospitals at Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and New Delhi.
MCEM Residency in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore & Chennai

July 2009
The Medical Council of India (MCI) officially recognizes the specialty of emergency medicine
Read - The Specialty of Emergency Medicine Officially Recognised in India!

2010-2011
Other hospitals begin structuring their EM residency to satisfy requirements towards the MCEM examination.
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Chennai Emergency Management Exercise CEMEx 2011
11-Aug-2011
Editors Desk

Chennai Emergency Management Exercise CEMEx 2011 was conducted by the Sri Ramachandra Medical College Emergency Physicians Alumni Association (SEPAA) along with Accident & Emergency Medicine Department of Sri Ramachandra University (SRU) and the United Nations Disaster Management Team (UNDMT) from 4th to 9th of August, 2011.

CEMEx 2011 was a 5 day long initiative with an attendance of around 900 delegates from various disciplines who participated in 13 parallel academic training programs running for the first four days of the event, which included:

Humanitarian Response Track focusing on Public Health,
School & Higher Education Preparedness,
Industrial and Chemical Disaster Preparedness,
IT & Hotel Industry Preparedness,
Communication Workshop,
Public Health Assessment,
First Responder Training Course,
ITLS ACCESS Course,
International Trauma Life Support – A Prehospital Care paramedic Course,
Emergency Nursing Care (ENC),
Hospital Emergency Management Course (HEMC),
Comprehensive Trauma Life Support (CTLS),
Basic Disaster Life Support and
Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS) Courses.

It was followed by an incident - simulation drill in which doctors, nurses, paramedics, hospital administrators, police, fire service, Civil defense, Corporation officials, Collectorate officials, state officials and local hospitals participated.

Dr. George Abraham, Founder of IIEMS, who was the chief faculty, said that the American Medical Association’s Basic Disaster Life Support and Advanced Disaster Life Support course was being conducted for the first time ever in India with over 50 emergency physicians participating.

The other faculty for BDLS/ADLS were cross trained in fire-fighting, Emergency Medical Services, Nursing and Hospital Administration. The faculty taught from their life experiences having dealt with major disasters. Training was given as per the DISASTER paradigm along with small pox vaccination, decontamination procedures and personal protective equipment.

An event like this one is the need of the hour and was designed to create awareness about disaster management not only among Health care providers but also the community at large. It aimed towards providing education to manage disasters better and save more lives.

Written by
Dr. Priyadarshini Marathe
Dr. Ravi Pattan Shetty
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EmergencyMedicine.in Optimized for iPad and iPhone
5-Aug-2011
Tech Desk



Our webserver analysis is indicating that many of our readers are using their iPads & iPhones to view this site. So we did some tweaking to improve site visibility on these mobile devices.

So, those of you who love your touchscreens, we give you more EmergencyMedicine.in

- Tech Team, EmergencyMedicine.in

Update! 10-Aug
We experienced technical problems yesterday with our Asia Pacific server. Visitors were cut off from our site for the last 24 hours. Redirection to our alternate server in US, also had failed. However the issue has been hopefully resolved today and we are back online. Always aiming for that 24x7x365 visibility.
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