Specialty preparations of medical physicians for emergency situations

Abstract

Introduction: Emergency Medicine is a relatively new but quickly growing physician specialty in the United States, with official training programs being introduced in the late 1960s. Emergency Medicine physicians are trained specifically to work in Emergency Departments and focus on acute care management and patient stabilization. Today there are over 160 Emergency Medicine Residency Programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which oversees residency programs in all American physician specialties. In contrast, emergency medical care in Ukraine follows the Franco-German model and is not centralized around Emergency Departments, primarily being provided by therapists and emergency care team ambulance brigades.