Emergency medicine training equips to give effective care in emergency situation: Dr. Katherine Henderson – ET HealthWorld

MBBS doctors who work full-time in the emergency departments of Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Navi Mumbai undergo a highly supervised clinical and academic training of 1 year duration known as Emergency Medicine Foundation Program (EMFP). EMFP trainees and their supervisors are able to record and sign-off skills and competencies on the online NHS Portfolio with RCEM oversight. This portfolio remains as a permanent record of training.

Speaking on the occasion Dr. Katherine Henderson said, it is wonderful to see such inspirational and committed support from Apollo Hospitals, for your career and success of emergency medicine. This is my first international travel since the pandemic impacted the world. This is a program we are very proud off, it’s very very special program, it is giving you clinical and professional skills, which equips you to give effective care in emergency situations in your health systems, that is incredibly powerful, which transforms you to be better doctors and deliver a high standard of care. A structured training program like this gets the best out of you. During the pandemic it was an enormous challenge for the emergency staff all over the world and all of us rose to this challenge in an incredible way. In emergency medicine we are running against time, we have to move on to the next patient, despite not having all the information we need to take decisions, we are really inhibited but are happy to adapt the new technology to ensure the best care for our patients. Congratulations for choosing a career in emergency medicine, do continue to have that fire to do better for our patients.

Dr. Sangita Reddy said, this is a very special occasion to take one step further for a safer country and safer world. You dedicated your lives in the service of humanity by becoming doctors and took one step further and choose emergency medicine as your profession, because it is indeed the gateway, the critical differentiator and quite a significant area. Let me reiterate that we will leave no stone unturned to provide the best care of every speciality and to enhance emergency care. Emergency medicine is not merely a speciality but it is a critical methodology by which you enable so many other specialities to save lives by you keeping the patient alive till speciality care is provided, therefore I commend you, of course for the work you did during Covid, of course for your dedication to medicine and emergency care and commend you in advance for all the lives you will save in future, because touching lives is the greatest opportunity to serve humanity. There is a lot more to be done, at the national level we need to set up emergency rooms on the highways, we need to train to bring in the right protocols so that drones can take lifesaving medicine, defibrillators to the work site, to have our emergency systems in place, need to enhance our training so that our online is far more powerful. We must find ways to bring higher standards of care and use the power of technology, Artificial intelligence to message at the work site, at the point of care. We must connect from our emergency rooms to nursing homes in districts, so that that, single piece of advice can make the difference to life and death. 68 doctors received their EMFP certification, 26 received their MRCEM and 2 doctors received their Fellowship of the RCEM. Dr. Katherine Henderson, President of the RCEM UK, Dr. K Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Group and Dr. K Hari Prasad, President – Apollo Group Hospitals, handed over the certificates to the successful doctors.