International Federation for Emergency Medicine
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| Abbreviation | IFEM |
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| Formation | 1991 |
| Type | INGO |
| Legal status | association |
| Purpose | medical/humanitarian |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 37.8110° S, 144.9340° E |
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Region served
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worldwide |
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Membership
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53 |
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Official language
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English |
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President
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Peter Cameron |
| Website | http://www.ifem.cc |
The International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) is the organization that holds the International Conference on Emergency Medicine (ICEM), a biennial conference on international emergency medicine for emergency physicians. (International emergency medicine is "the area of emergency medicine concerned with the development of emergency medicine in other countries.") IFEM represents a consortium of over 60 national emergency medicine organizations.
The first ICEM was held in London in 1986 as a collaborative effort between the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the British Association for Emergency Medicine (BAEM), the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). It rotated between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia until 2010, when it was held in Singapore.
Emergency Medicine Journal calls ICEM a major international emergency medicine conference, while Kumar Alagappan and C. James Holliman refer to IFEM as "probably the most active, broad-based, international organization dealing with international EM [emergency medicine] development issues."
International emergency medicine is "the area of emergency medicine concerned with the development of emergency medicine in other countries." In that definition, "other countries" refers to nations that do not have a mature emergency care system (exemplified by board certified emergency physicians and academic emergency medicine, among other things). Included in those nations are some that are otherwise quite developed but lack a complete emergency medical system, such as Armenia, China, Israel, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. Work in international emergency medicine can be broken down into two main categories: 1) the promotion of emergency medicine as a recognized and established specialty in other countries, and 2) The provision of humanitarian assistance.
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