Monalisa Muchatuta, Shama Patel, Catalina Gonzalez Marquez, Kaushila Thilakasiri, Sreenidhi Vanyaa Manian, Jennifer Chan, Ngassa Mssika, Taryn Clark, Taylor Burkholder, Nikkole Turgeon, Vinay N Kampalath, Nivedita Poola, O Agatha Offorjebe, Adeline Dozois, Gimbo Hyuha, Oluwarotimi Vaughan-Ogunlusi, Carol McCammon, Katie Wells, Megan Rybarczk, Maria Paula Castillo, Adebisi Anthonia Adeyeye, Chris A Rees, Sanjukta Dutta, Stephanie Chow Garbern
BACKGROUND: Global emergency medicine (GEM) is situated at the intersection of global health and emergency medicine (EM), which is built upon a history of colonial systems and institutions that continue to reinforce inequities between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) today. These power imbalances yield disparities in GEM practice, research, and education. APPROACH: The Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine formed the Decolonizing GEM Working Group in 2020, which now includes over 100 worldwide members...
June 2024: AEM Education and Training