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The Eight Cs: A Guide to Success in an International Emergency Medicine Educational Collaboration
Author(s) -
Weiner Scott G.,
Kelly Sean P.,
Rosen Peter,
Ban Kevin M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00151.x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical emergency , medical education , family medicine
The Tuscan Emergency Medicine Initiative (TEMI) is a comprehensive emergency medicine (EM) training program designed to build an EM training infrastructure in Tuscany, Italy. The program has successfully trained a team of instructors using a train‐the‐trainers model, certified 350 physicians who are already practicing in emergency departments (EDs), and established a master’s program as a bridge to specialty training at the region’s three universities. Using lessons learned from this program, the authors identify eight factors (The Eight Cs) that can serve as a guide to implementing a collaborative EM program in other environments: collaboration , context, culture , credibility , consulting , consistency , critique , and conclusion . Each of these topics is described in detail and may be useful to other international interventions. ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2008; 15:1–5 © 2008 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine