CALLING FOR NOMINATED COUNCILORS TO INDO-US ACADEMIC COUNCIL FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE & TRAUMA

Dr S Raghunanthanan (Chennai) Dr Pushp Raj Singh (Vellore) Dr Bhimo Singh (Imphal) Dr Sudesh Rao (Mangalore) Dr Ajay Behal (Delhi) Dr Syed Amerzahoor (Srinagar) Dr S.Durai Rajan (Pondicherry) Dr Anand Bijwe ( Amarawati) Dr CS Prakash  (Annamalinagar) Dr MMA Kambli (Srinagar) Dr RPS Boparai (Amritsar) Dr Rajnish Joshi (Wardha)	Dr Sundara Kumar (Coimbatore) Dr Ashok C Upadhyaya (Hyderabad) Dr Tarlika P Doctor (Ahmedabad) Dr Vineeta Goyal (Agra) Dr Rakesh Kumar (Delhi) Dr Devesh Patel (Baroda) Dr Sanjay Mehta (Mumbai) Dr Sunil Kumar (Delhi) Dr Tanu Raj Sirohi (Meerut) Dr Sharad Vyas,(Ahemdabad) Dr M.K.A Sherwani (Aligarh) Dr NS Senegar (Jhansi) Dr Sanjeev Bhoi (AIIMS)
ACET 2006 India-Chairs Dr Praveen Aggarwal (AIIMS) Dr LR Murmu (AIIMS) ACET 2006 USA-Chairs Dr Tracy Sanson (USA) Dr Kelly P O’Keefe (USA) ACET 2006 Coordinators Dr Ashish Goel (India) Dr Sagar Galwankar (USA) ACET-Faculty 2006 Dr David Orban (USA) Dr Jason Johnson (USA) Dr Bonnie Arquilla (USA) INDUS-EM 2006 Councilor Dr Amit Gupta (India)

The meeting began with opening remarks from Dr O’Keefe, Chair of the Academic Council. The meeting began with a brief background of the functioning of the Emergency Medicine System in United States, and its adaptation in an Indian model.

The meeting concluded that the following measures are urgently required in favor of improving the quality of patient care, medical education and research in the field of emergency medicine in India. The Council proposed the following:

1. Administrative issues relevant to the branch of Emergency Medicine were discussed and the following were proposed:
    
   1. Separate Department of Emergency Medicine needs to be created in all medical colleges and government hospitals immediately and then efforts should be made to get a specialty recognition from the Medical Coincil of India.
   2. A cohesive co-ordination between para-medical and nursing staff is essential for better patient care in emergency. Co-operation among the trained paramedical and nursing staff can be achieved if these are directly under the Department of Emergency Medicine.
   3. Pre-hospital care and hospital transfer should come under the purview of the Department of Emergency Medicine. It is necessary to develop a co-coordinated system for quick, comfortable and scientific transfer of the ill to the Department.
       

2. In the field of Medical Education it is essential that the following steps be taken to train and produce efficient and skilled doctors for taking care of patients in emergency:
    
   1. Concerted efforts need to be made for the recognition of specialty and the curriculum of the Emergency Medicine by the Medical Council of India
   2. A Curriculum of Emergency Medicine needs to be drafted for better training for undergraduate and postgraduate students. All members were encouraged to draft a model curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
   3. A structured faculty development course is needed for scientific emergency patient care.
   4. A speaker’s bureau was formulated and councillors were encouraged to be a part of the bureau.
   5. Tinitinali’s Principles of Emergency Medicine, and Peter Rosen’s Principles and Practice of Emergency Medicine were proposed by the Council as the standard text books for patient management in emergency care
   6. A rotatory posting in Emergency Medicine should be made essential for a defined period during the one year internship after MBBS.
       

3. The following steps are essential for an improved humane Patient care in the Department of Emergency Medicine:
    
   1. Evidence based emergency care needs to be developed across the country for quick and scientific patient care based on the latest available scientific evidence.
   2. It is difficult to keep abreast with the rapid advances in Emergency Medicine, and to provide the best possible care, a broadband high-speed internet access for emergency departments for instant and easy access to latest scientific evidence is essential at all times.
   3. Standardized protocols for emergency patient care should be drafted for Indian settings
       
4. A coordinated program for Medical Research should be worked out and multi-centric, meaningful ethical research in emergency medicine should be promoted by the members of the Academic Council.
    

5. An annual academic meet of the Academic Council should be encouraged and held regularly in one of the medical colleges represented by the councillors present in the meeting. The objectives of this meeting should be the advancement of Emergency Medicine and promote young minds for conducting research in this field.
    

6. The Academic Councillors felt motivated to go back and work towards the advancement of the objectives of the Council.

 The meeting came to an end with a vote of thanks to the Chair.

Submitted By
National Chair: Dr Praveen Aggarwal
Professor, Emergency Medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India