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Abstract
The 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.Mesh:
Year: 2011 PMID: 21496131 DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01046.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acad Emerg Med ISSN: 1069-6563 Impact factor: 3.451