In today’s fast-paced world, unplanned and unexpected medical emergencies are becoming the norm. Patients in pain & distress due to accidents, lifestyle diseases, communicable diseases or complications of ongoing treatments, present themselves to the emergency departments seeking urgent help.
There is an acute need for “Emergency Specialists” to identify and treat these emergencies. The availability of highly skilled and keen doctors, who are well oriented to emergencies and can keep a cool head to handle an emergency is the need of the hour in today’s healthcare scenario. The growth of emergency medicine, from concept to its current state has happened over a short time. It has only been recognized as an independent specialty since the last decade in India. While it could be considered a fledgling medical specialty, it is also one of the fastest-growing specialties in health care at present.
The uniqueness of this specialty is that it handles severe illness at the most crucial time irrespective of different organ systems that could be involved due to the illness. Hence it demands knowledge of and coordination with all the other existing specialties in healthcare today. The doctors in emergency medicine besides being able to resuscitate acutely ill patents and provide trauma care, need to have expert level knowledge and skills concerned with all branches of health care like General medicine, Surgery, Critical Care, Orthopedics, Neurosciences, Radiology, Geriatrics, Pediatrics and Obstetrics, and Gynecology.
Doctors trained in emergency medicine have both medical and managerial dexterity. Quality care in time saves lives and also saves costs, these are traits that a good Emergency physician brings to a healthcare system. Such qualities are in great demand in today’s health care scenario creating a tremendous employment opportunity for emergency trained doctors in premier health care facilities across the country.
An emergency physician can also opt to choose to make a niche for themselves in the sub-specialties of emergency medicine. These include pre-hospital care like EMS, Helicopter EMS (HEMS), Disaster & Mass gathering medicine or In-hospital subspecialties like Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Critical care or acute medicine, ultrasound and toxicology. With a background in emergency medicine, one can even consider careers in Research, Forensic and Legal Medicine, Industrial health care and injury prevention. For emergency physicians who have a taste for adventure, out of hospital branches like, Environmental health, Hyperbaric, and undersea medicine, Sports medicine, Expedition, and Wilderness medicine are some interesting considerations.
Candidate for admission to (CCT-EM) program shall be required to possess the following qualifications:
- He/she must have a qualified MBBS Degree
- Obtained permanent registration certificate from any one of the State Medical Councils or Medical Council of India
- Foreign Medical Graduated should have cleared their FMG screening exam before enrolling in the course and have to submit their FMG screening exam result copy to the society as mentioned in the application.
The application form is available from the office or downloads the application form below
- Those fulfilling the eligibility criterion, the candidate will be called for a personal interview following which the admission list will be drawn.
- The personal interview will be conducted by the head of the department and the selected list of candidates will be recommended to SEMI with a complete set of details as requested in the application form on or before 20 days before the commencement of the course for that year.
- The final decision of acceptance and enrollment for the course rests with SEMI and incomplete applications will be rejected.
- All the candidates successfully enrolled will receive an acceptance letter from SEMI and recommended to register for SEMI membership.