International Federation for Emergency Medicine Model Curriculum for Emergency Medicine

Hobgood C, Anantharaman V, Bandiera G, Cameron P, Pinchas Halperin , Holliman J, Jouriles N, Kilroy D, Mulligan T, Singer A, Mateos Rodríguez AA

There is a critical and growing need for emergency physicians and emergency medicine

resources worldwide. To meet this need, physicians must be trained to deliver timesensitive

interventions and life-saving emergency care. Currently, there is no

internationally recognized, standard curriculum that defines the basic minimum standards

for emergency medicine education. To address this lack, the International Federation for

Emergency Medicine (IFEM) convened a committee of international physicians, health

professionals and other experts in emergency medicine and international emergency

medicine development, to outline a curriculum for foundation training of medical

students in emergency medicine. This curriculum document represents the consensus of

recommendations by this committee. The curriculum is designed with a focus on the

basic minimum emergency medicine educational content that any medical school should

be delivering to its students during their undergraduate years of training. It is designed,

not to be prescriptive, but to assist educators and emergency medicine leadership in

advancing physician education in basic emergency medicine content. The content would

be relevant, not just for communities with mature emergency medicine systems, but also

for developing nations or for nations seeking to expand emergency medicine within

current educational structures. We anticipate that there will be wide variability in how this

curriculum is implemented and taught, reflecting the existing educational milieu, the

resources available, and the goals of the institutions’ educational leadership.

Anantharaman V, Bandiera G, Cameron P, Hobgood C, Holliman J, Jouriles N, Kilroy D, Mateos Rodríguez AA, Mulligan T, Pinchas Halperin, Singer A