emergency and critical care
Universal, successful
and without borders
EUSEM is collaborating with other scientific societies including ESC and the
ESICM for writing or endorsing position papers and guidelines, and is increasingly
being recognised as the reference body for emergency medical care in Europe
Roberta Petrino MD
President of EUSEM
Patrick Plaisance
MD PhD
EUSEM 2018 Congress
Organising Committee
Organisational Lead
Emergency medicine has an increasing
prominence all over the world and especially in
Europe. Its definition is being refined, bringing
together out-of-hospital and in-hospital
emergencies. This medical activity is being
reinforced by gradually becoming a primary
specialty in the various European countries,
facilitated by the curriculum published by the
European Society for Emergency Medicine. Thus,
more and more young doctors want to evolve in
this new specialty. It is the same for paramedics,
emergency medical technicians, nurses. The
European Society for Emergency Nurses is now
part of our congress. These personnel are working
together for the same goal which is the medical,
traumatological, psychological, and psychiatric
management of acute pathologies. Therefore,
they must meet regularly to discuss their
common practices. This is the goal of the
European Congress of Emergency Medicine of the
European Society for Emergency Medicine, which
will be hosting its 12th annual meeting in 2018.
This congress grows from year to year. It now
brings together over 2000 participants from many
countries even beyond Europe. The development
of this congress depends certainly on the
experience of the university emergency specialists
who have ability to elaborate this kind of event
and who have a well developed network of
contacts who are opinion leaders in the field.
But the originality of this congress is also in the
links with those who will build the emergency
medicine of tomorrow and who are young
specialists in emergency medicine. Indeed, the
Young Emergency Medicine Doctors Committee
has allowed integration of original, more
interactive, dynamic sessions such as the Euro
SimCup, bringing together national teams from
different countries, or the Speed Networking
Event.
This year the European Congress on
Emergency Medicine is being held in Glasgow,
UK, organised as always by the European Society
for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) together with
the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM).
The event and the location have a special
meaning this year, for two reasons, and this is
underlying that emergency care is universal,
successful, useful and without borders.
The first reason is that last year the RCEM
celebrated the 50th anniversary of emergency
medicine as a recognised specialty in the UK. The
second reason is that despite Brexit, emergency
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medicine is a growing specialty in Europe and it
is tightly linked to the country that has been the
school and example for most European countries.
The EUSEM has grown and is now a strong
European scientific society. Our institution is the
reference body to which many countries look to
develop the specialty of emergency medicine and
to organise efficient emergency care.
The sections and committees, active in EUSEM,
are working hard to prepare the revision of the
European curriculum that will be presented in
Glasgow, guidelines and scientific papers on
geriatric, paediatric, pre-hospital emergency
medicine, important projects and collaborations
with academic institutions working in disaster
medicine, the new definition of emergency
medicine, and the professional standards of
emergency departments that should be granted
in all European countries.
EUSEM is offering high quality courses that
cover wide parts of the curriculum, with modular
and comprehensive courses, which are
particularly important for the young emergency
physicians. Our society is also proposing the
priming course for the European Board
Examination of Emergency Medicine (EBEEM),
the exam certifying that the competences and
skills for practising as an independent emergency
physician are achieved. The EBEEM is organised
by the Emergency Medicine Examination
Reference Group for Europe (EMERGE), which is
a joint committee between the EUSEM and the
UEMS Section and Board of Emergency Medicine.
Thus the EBEEM content and delivery is done
according to the European recommendations for
examination and assessment of the specialties in
Europe, and represent the competencies included
in the European curriculum.
EUSEM is aware that emergency medicine
is curing not only the acute phase of diseases
but also has the important function to harbour
victims of domestic violence and abuse, to grant
dignity for the dying and other fundamental
ethical issues. This is the reason why the Ethical
Committee is developing recommendations and
guidelines beyond regulating the relationship
with industry.
Finally, EUSEM is collaborating with other
scientific societies including ESC and the ESICM
for writing or endorsing position papers and
guidelines, and is being recognised as the
reference body for the emergency setting of
diseases in Europe.