Emergency medicine residency training for out-of-hospital emergencies

Mateos Rodríguez AA, Pardillos Ferrer L, Montarelo Navajo A, De La Parte De La Fuente B, Peñuela Melero S, Vázquez Quiroga B, Huertas Alcázar P

The new residency training program in family and community medicine requires a

rotation responding to calls received by primary care and emergency services. The

intensity of these rotations ranges from 25% of calls for first-year residents to 75% for

fourth-year trainees. All emergencies in the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid

are handled by the SUMMA112 emergency medical service, which has developed and

launched a program specifically for these residents. The program is new to Spain, where

until now no specialty training in emergency medicine has been offered. The developers

created an educational unit with a coordinator, instructors in family and community

medicine, and an organizing committee. The SUMMA112 syllabus is compatible with

the training program of the Spanish national board for the specialty of family and

community medicine, although additional competencies that are highly specific to

emergency health services have been incorporated. Teaching and assessment methods

have also been planned so that instructors will take a similar educational approach. This

article explains these improvements to the syllabus so that the description can serve as a

starting point once the specialty in emergency medicine is approved in Spain.

De La Parte De La Fuente B, Huertas Alcázar P, Mateos Rodríguez AA, Montarelo Navajo A, Pardillos Ferrer L, Peñuela Melero S, Vázquez Quiroga B