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All in India
In 2014, recognizing the need for improved EM training, India’s Max SHBG hospital partnered with George Washington University (GWU) to start the Masters in Emergency Medicine (MEM) program, a 3 year residency training program in Emergency Medicine and acute care. To date, SHBG has graduated 18 MEM and 15 DNB Emergency Medicine residents. Max SHBG graduates have gone on to successful careers in India and around the world.
When Dr. Nerendra Nath Jena first became head of the Emergency/Casualty Department (ED) at Meenakshi Mission Hospital & Research Center (MMHRC) in 2008, there wasn’t much of a department for him to lead. Still a year before Emergency Medicine (EM) would become a formally recognized specialty in India, the department at that time consisted of only 5 beds, tucked into a 3 x 5 meter entry way leading to the ambulance bay outside.
Located in the Eastern District of Delhi, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Patparjan (Max PPG) serves a diverse patient population stretching from far flung rural communities to India’s densely populated capital city. Prior to 2011, patients arriving to Max PPG were received in a casualty department, where they were examined by a rotating staff of physicians, none of whom had training in Emergency Medicine (EM). In 2011 the Emergency Departments (ED) began hiring EM trained physicians, and in 2016 they partnered with George Washington University (GWU) to start an EM post-graduate residency training program.
