Countries that recognize EM as an actual specialty

[deleted109597]

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Countries Recognize Emergency Medicine as a Specialty

As health care professionals working on Emergency medicine, our history is still being written. Let’s say you would like to learn which countries officially recognize Emergency Medicine (EM) as a specialty, and want to make a beautiful interactive infographic depicting these countries with their...

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For informative purposes as people consider going overseas.

 

[thegenius]

I would take the US off that list

 

[littlejuan]

The map is slightly out of date already. Guatemala just got it's first official emergency medicine residency:

Wayne State, UPenn partner to develop Emergency Medicine training slots in Guatemala

From left: San Juan De Dios hospital general's Chief of Emergency Surgery Dr. Francisco Morales and Emergency Department Chair Dr. Mario Contreras; Wayne State University School of Medicine's Internat...

today.wayne.edu

 

[deleted109597]

The map is slightly out of date already. Guatemala just got it's first official emergency medicine residency:

Wayne State, UPenn partner to develop Emergency Medicine training slots in Guatemala

From left: San Juan De Dios hospital general's Chief of Emergency Surgery Dr. Francisco Morales and Emergency Department Chair Dr. Mario Contreras; Wayne State University School of Medicine's Internat...

today.wayne.edu

I'm not sure that having the residency program equals national recognition. It's a start of course.

 

[cyanide12345678]

Pakistan does? My Pakistani parents would disagree 😛

 

[TooMuchResearch]

I call Libya.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Should have specified: That was sarcasm.

 

[Lawpy]

I call Libya.

Now that you mention it, I'm curious how Libya managed to do any recognition seeing that it didn't really have much of a government in 2013? It doesn't have much of a government right now either, so not sure how EM recognition would work there, unless I'm missing something.

 

[littlejuan]

I'm not sure that having the residency program equals national recognition. It's a start of course.

Not like it really matter in Guatemala as any of us could go work there if we wanted but I am pretty sure it’s now recognized as a specialty nationally in the country.

 

[deleted109597]

I'm not the author, but I'm sure he would be happy to hear from people. He's already heard from a few of us regarding other countries left off (Sri Lanka, etc).

 

[alpinism]

I would take the US off that list

List of countries that previously recognized emergency medicine as a specialty:

1. United States (1972-1986)