Congratulations to Portugal on the Approval of the Specialty of Emergency Medicine
The European Society for Emergency Medicine would like to congratulate the Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência on obtaining approval for Emergency Medicine to become a specialty in Portugal.
On 23rd September 2024, the Assembly of Representatives of the Order of Physicians (OM) approved the new specialty of Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. This follows tremendous work by the Portuguese Society in lobbying for the specialty.
The objective now is to start training Emergency Medicine Specialists in early 2025. A Commission will be setup to see which hospitals can accommodate trainees and the Ministry of Health will be informed so that vacancies can be published as soon as November.
“This is a great day for Emergency Medicine in Europe. Following the recent successes of Spain and the Netherlands, Portugal has continued the drive to have the specialty accepted across the whole of Europe,” said Dr Jim Connolly, President of the European Society for Emergency Medicine. “We are very proud to support the Portuguese Society. We congratulate them on a fantastic outcome, recognising it has been the result of incredible work by the society.”
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