Contribution of 15 Years (2007-2022) of Indo-US Training Partnerships to the Emergency Physician Workforce Capacity in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Indo-US Masters in Emergency Medicine (MEM) certification courses are rigorous three-year emergency medicine (EM) training courses that operate as a partnership between affiliate hospitals or universities in the United States with established EM training programs and local partner sites in India. Throughout their 15 years of operation, these global training partnerships have contributed to the EM workforce in India. Our objective in this study was to describe Indo-US MEM program graduates, their work environments, and their contribution to the growth of academic EM and to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response.

Methods

An electronic survey was created by US and Indian MEM course stakeholders and distributed to 714 US-affiliated MEM program graduates. The

SUBMITTER: Ciano JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10393456 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature