• Acad Emerg Med · Apr 2011

    The light of emergency medicine: Vietnam-the next chapter in the global history of emergency medicine?

    • Robert E Suter.
    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, USA. resuter@aol.com
    • Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Apr 1; 18 (4): e31-5.

    AbstractThe following is the keynote address to the First Emergency Medicine Conference in Vietnam, held in the historic city of Hue, March 22-26, 2010. This presentation reviewed the global history of emergency medicine (EM) and presented the need for the establishment of EM residency programs in Vietnam in a culturally sensitive manner. Immediately following this presentation, the Deputy Minister of Health for Vietnam announced recognition of EM as a specialty in Vietnam, and the establishment of EM residency programs, with the first starting October 1, 2010, in association with the Hue College of Medicine.© 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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