Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative Clinico-pathologic Case Competitions Celebrate 20 Years of Competitive Educational Learning Experience.

Abstract

Emergency medicine (EM) is well established in many countries but is a relatively new specialty in India., EM was not officially declared a separate academic discipline in India until 2009, and therefore, emergency care to sick patients was being provided by physicians without any training. To enhance knowledge of such doctors, Indo-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative started annual conferences in EM in 2005. In these annual conferences, clinico-pathologic case (CPC) competition was introduced since the beginning. Later, the World Academic Council of EM was formed, and CPC competitions were taken at the global level. In this article, we describe the growth of this event.