EMC GEM – Global EM is a monthly blog by Navpreet Sahsi and Hiren Patel, Toronto emergency physicians and Global Emergency Medicine experts.The goal of GEM EM is to review high yield core concepts in Global Emergency Medicine, discuss global health experiences from Canadian Emergency physicians and introduce ways to get involved in Global Emergency Medicine. EMC GEM has a vision to improve Emergency Medicine around the world.
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Global EM 6 Palliative Care in Low-Resource Settings: Challenges and Solutions
Dr. Sara Alavian describes some of the challenges of providing palliative care in low-income/low resource settings and offers some simple solutions in this Global EM column...
Global EM 5 Is it Ethical? 5 Core Principles When Choosing a Global Health Project
Dr. Navpreet Sahsi outlines 5 core ethical principles in choosing and participating a global health project on EM Cases' Global EM blog...
Global EM 4 Climate Change and the Impeding Impact on Emergency Medicine
With increasing forest fires, heat waves, floods, storms, vector-borne illnesses and heat waves, the emergency department is uniquely positioned to declare sentinel events, advocate on behalf of vulnerable populations and lead by example. Dr. Matt Douglas-Vail explains the need for Increased education on climate change and planetary health, Increased resource allocation in emergency departments for climate-related pathologies and increased disaster planning for climate-related emergencies on this month's Global EM blog...
Global EM 3 So you want to be a humanitarian doctor?
Dr. Nav Sahsi gives us a quick primer on Doctors Without Borders, explains the difference between humanitarian work and development work and describes the motivation, personal skills, education, time commitment and flexibility required for humanitarian work for all those with an interest in Global EM...
Global EM 2: The Emergency Physician – Global Health’s Missing Piece
Dr. Hiren Patel describes the complexities of being a global health practitioner and the skillset that emergency physicians possess giving them the potential to excel in this role on EM Cases' EM GEM blog on Global Emergency Medicine...
Global EM 1: Practicing EM in Bangladesh – Build It and They Will Come
Dr. Navpreet Sahsi describes the challenges of building an Emergency Department in Bangladesh and how the experience has shaped his outlook on Emergency Medicine practice in North America on EM Cases' first Global EM blog...
