A small committee from the EUSEM Education committee and the EMERGE on behalf of the UEMS Section and Board of Emergency medicine has revised the European Curriculum of Emergency medicine to align it to the recent developments of the discipline. The core curriculum exists to identify the knowledge, skills and behaviors that the physician must possess. This naturally changes as the specialty evolves and in the light of experience of using the curriculum to guide training and assessment. This updated curriculum includes new topics or clarifies existing topics where they are relevant or pertinent to current emergency medicine practice.

This allows alignment of the curriculum to the topics tested in the EBEEM (European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine) and ensures that the developing emergency physician knows all the competences required for the scope of practice of emergency medicine.

See the revised curriculum here.

The EUSEM Professional Committee has redefined the definition of Emergency Medicine in Europe.

Emergency Medicine is a primary specialty established using the knowledge and skills required for the prevention¹ diagnosis and management² of urgent and emergency aspects of illness and injury, affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioral disorders.

This includes organizing the proper medical response for patients looking for urgent medical care.

Time and timing in this setting may be critical either from a medical or from the patient’s point of view.

The practice of Emergency Medicine³ encompasses the in-hospital as well as out-of-hospital⁴ triage, resuscitation, initial assessment, telemedicine and the management of undifferentiated urgent and emergency patients until discharge or transfer to the care of another health care professional.

¹ Prevention: also includes injury prevention, preparedness for disaster, as well as public health education.

² Management encompasses the local service organization as well as the development of systems to provide EM care.

³ Primarily hospital-based
⁴ This applies to out-of-hospital emergency care, disasters and includes other urgent medical care systems outside hospitals.

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We are now announcing the results of the Executive Elections 2017!

Individual votes: 151

National Societies votes: 23 = weighted votes 35

Total votes: 186

President-Elect:

• Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo 94
• John Heyworth 83
• Abstention   9

Vice-President:

• Robert Leach  153
• Disagree     8
• Abstention  25

Honorary Secretary

• Wilhelm Behringer
• Disagree     8
• Abstention   21

Honorary Treasurer

• Marc Sabbe   159
• Disagree   12
• Abstention   15

Applications are now open for the next intake of the International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine – a post-graduate course, fully credit rated by Glasgow Caledonian University.

This course provides a mix of distance and taught learning, with residential weeks based in Glasgow, Glenmore Lodge (Cairngorm Mountains), Dartington Hall (Devon), and the Atlas Mountains (Marrakech), and gives healthcare professionals a unique opportunity to develop their skills in extreme and challenging environments.

Full details about the course are available on our website: https://rcpsg.ac.uk/diploma-in-expedition-and-wilderness-medicine