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EMERGENCY MEDICINE: WHO IS RESISTING YOU TO BECOME A PIONEER OF THE DEVELOPMENT?

I am writing this article as I feel a lot medical graduates in India are ignoring a beautiful branch for post-graduation

In the 1960's and 70's Radiodiagnosis was the growing branch in developed countries, few countries had the sophistication of using CT-Scan Machines and MRI's.. But, doctors of the developing countries, failed to foresee the change, and top rankers were not choosing the branch.. but gradually the grandeur of the subject spread!

Now its the 2020s and Emergency Medicine is a booming subject, with a huge scope in abroad and India.

Hi, I am Dr. Subhadeep, I am an Emergency Medicine PG resident in India. I am an old contender to join the course of MD Emergency Medicine in 2022, since I passed my MBBS way back in 2013..

After my internship (rotatory-house physician duty), I did one year house-staffship (served as house physician) in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

After wards, I have worked in many Hospitals and mainly in the Critical Care Departments for long 4.5 years and I love critical care as it demands passion devotion and clinical skills.

It was not late until 2019 that I got promoted as the Medical Administrator of a 100-bedded multi-specialty hospital, when I realized the importance and scope of Emergency Medicine.

When all other specialty branches are getting saturated, there is an acute shortage of Emergency Medicine specialist all over India with enormous vacancies in every state!! Recently NMC has declared that every medical college must have an emergency medicine department with trained specialists!!

Emergency Medicine Department,
IMS and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India.

More over what I found out that, this branch is like an ocean to explore. You are learning the core areas of many critical illness and emergencies not restricted to the boundaries of medicine, but it is extending its limbs to pediatrics, gynecology, surgery, trauma care ophthalmology, and ENT.

In this young subject there is now a hell lot of growth and improvement with incorporation of instruments/gadgets as Bed Side USGs, Diagnostics POC Tests and Radiological investigations. The subject allows you to learn the principles of emergency as well as critical care medicine as you are dealing with patients who are in the most acute phases of their illness.

Apart from allowing you the fascination of being like a true detective to diagnose the emergencies and solve the cases, it gives you the satisfaction of a lot hands-on procedures to perform from suturing injuries, to taking care of wounds and burns, doing intubation, placing a central line, doing a guided pleural tap, pericardiocentesis, placing emergency temporary pacemakers, inserting a dialysis line, draining abscesses, doing lavages for poisoning... and the list goes on

And believe me if you love saving lives, you will not get tired.. you learn protocols of ATLS, ACLS, PALS as if, all the adrenaline rush is pumped in your heart.

I am doing a USG Guided Central Venous Line (Jugular)

Emergency Medicine will have lot to do in the future and its a rapidly enhancing field, so who is stopping you from getting to be one of the pioneer in such a beautiful branch combining medical and surgical aspects!!

At last, we as doctors have grown up seeing series as "Dr. House MD" and believe me I am kind of living the same essence through this branch, and this is like a dream come true for me!!
I am sharing the links of various Emergency departments of abroad Universities, I know we are not yet that much advanced till now but surely, believe me one day we will be working with such environments in our own country, and it will not be that late!!