Teach to learn

Perhaps the greatest loss that we have experienced today after being educated is the loss of the ability to teach, and with it, the paucity of teachers.It is very easy to understand that knowledge has to be perpetuated in order to keep it alive,akin to life itself.However it is more easily forgotten. And sadly the number of people willing to teach without a purpose has fallen down in drastic numbers.I am sure that this will definately apply to the practice of  medicine as well.I was taught this by my mentor Dr Tamorish Kole ,who is the academic head of the emergency medicine department in Max Healthcare in New Delhi,and a vociferous supporter of spreading the knowledge of emergency medicine all over India, who strongly that for emergency medicine to grow,it has to be shared and spread to the level of the common man in India.He feels that an appreciation of anything can only come from a need arising out society itself, and that need has to be understood by society.Today ,when i begin this blogspace,I would surely dedicate it to the man behind all the inspiration.

Trois Hurras,Dr Tamorish Kole

The need for officially recognized specialty in Emergency Medicine

Dear friends

I am Dr Nitesh--Dr Nitesh who??Well friends,I am just one of the many doctors in Emergency Medicine who want to make this discipline as recognized a specialty in India as in the U.S or U.K.It has been a while here in India that people have begun to realize the existence of Emergency Medicine.What does elude us however is the official recognition of the discipline,and the respect that comes with it.The MCI does list it as a specialty,but with the very few seats actually offering post-graduation in this discipline in India,one is left with no choice but to have some accredition from some foreign university offering some training in emergency medicine in only some cities of India.

Working here in Delhi,I have felt the need for some alternate solution.Why not train people to be certified in Emergency medicine with some Globally recognized certification?Why not arm them with the dual benefit of a training in Emergency Medicine as well as a Globally recognized degree that gives them seamless mobility?

The feasible option(in terms of ease and accessibilty) that I could think closest to was the Membership Exam of the Royal College of EM,UK, and therefore I decided to create this blog which will be solely dedicated to those Indian doctors working in Emergency Medicine or out of it who want to pass this exam and also help others to pass too.

I invite any doctors from India (or Indian doctors abroad also) interested in giving this exam or who have given this exam to come forward ,share thier views on a common platform, and help aspirants to pass.It feel it should be a source of knowledge for all exam related materials,discussions,and whatever resources aspirants wish to pool in .I am sure, with so many aspirants today who really want to have a respectable career ahead in Emergency Medicine, there will be very soon a big bundle of easily accesible material for use by everybody.

So,bienvenue amis.