Professionalisation rather than monopolisation is the future of emergency medicine in Europe

Hautz, Wolf E.; Sauter, Thomas C.; Lehmann, Beat; Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K.

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“…These studies should be accompanied by research measuring objective error rates, such as e.g. diagnostic error [ 30 ], [ 32 ], [ 33 ]. We therefore recommend that future studies should be performed in other Swiss and European hospitals.…”

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Patient safety culture in a university hospital emergency department in Switzerland – a survey study

Ricklin

Hess

Hautz

2019

GMS Journal for Medical Education; 36(2):Doc14

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“…We therefore recommend that future studies should be performed in other Swiss and European hospitals. Such studies are especially critical to the field of emergency care [ 33 ].…”

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Patient safety culture in a university hospital emergency department in Switzerland – a survey study

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Hess

Hautz

2019

GMS Journal for Medical Education; 36(2):Doc14

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“…As described above, our department is involved in training students in emergency medicine at Bern University Medical School and at the training centre for residents for the Certificate of Clinical Emergency Medicine. These teaching responsibilities – together with the growing importance in Switzerland of the specialty of emergency medicine [ 16 ] and the Certificate of Clinical Emergency Medicine – have made it mandatory to develop and implement a feasible curriculum in clinical emergency medicine.…”

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Development, implementation and first insights of a time- and location-independent longitudinal postgraduate curriculum in emergency medicine

Sauter

Exadaktylos

Krummrey

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GMS Journal for Medical Education; 35(4):Doc44

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“…Germany is taking actions to foster emergency medicine by creating academic units and establishing a subspecialty. Multiple skills, such as coordination of emergency department flow to minimise overcrowding, correct triage of patients, leadership in large multidisciplinary teams and advanced skills to correctly diagnose and treat critically ill patients are particularly important in emergency physicians [3,4]. In recognition of the specific skills required, the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) has created a European curriculum for emergency physicians including a European board examination [3].…”

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Emergency medicine in Switzerland: an analysis of physician workforce, gender equality and academics

Ravioli¹,

Haidinger²,

Exadaktylos³

et al. 2022

Swiss Med Wkly

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BACKGROUND: Globally, emergency medicine is continuously evolving and in numerous countries, societies and colleges help develop the specialty on a professional and academic level. However, there are countries, including Switzerland, where emergency medicine is not a fully recognised specialty and there is a historical gender gap.AIMS OF THE STUDY: It was the aim of this study to investigate the trends and developments in Swiss emergency medicine in terms of physician workforce, gender equality and academic posts over time.METHODS: In this observational longitudinal analysis, the number and gender distribution of Swiss Society of Emergency and Rescue Medicine (SSERM) members as well as SSERM-certified physicians were analysed in 2011, 2016 and 2021. Additionally, head and leading physicians of SSERM-certified emergency departments of category 1 and 2 were analysed in 2021 with special regard to gender distribution. Finally, an analysis of Swiss academic emergency medicine including Swiss academic tracks, professors in emergency medicine as well as committees, chairs and speakers of the annual SSERM conference was performed.RESULTS: From 2011 to 2021, there was an increase in SSERM members of 52% and a growing proportion of women from 26% to 35%. Similarly, there was a rise of 66% in physicians certified in in-hospital and 79% certified in prehospital emergency medicine. The proportion of women increased by 153% and 131%, respectively. In the analysed emergency departments, 69% of all head physicians were men whereas 50% of senior consultants and consultants with extended responsibility were women in 2021. Concerning academics, emergency medicine was a mandatory subject at all Swiss universities offering a master's degree in medical studies in 2021. However, 11 Swiss universities reported only six full professors, of whom only one was a woman, and three associate professors in emergency medicine in 2021. The analysis of the annual SSERM conferences from 2016 to 2019 revealed that men outnumbered women at every conference in terms of committees, chairs and speakers.CONCLUSIONS: The number of SSERM members and board-certified emergency physicians, women in particular, remarkably increased in 10 years. Equality appears to be within reach for clinical emergency physicians, but women continue to be underrepresented in academic positions, at scientific conferences and among professors. In Switzerland, academic emergency medicine appears to be lagging behind in view of the growing emergency physician and women workforce, which might complicate further progress in and development of Swiss emergency medicine on a scientific and professional level.

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Professionalisation rather than monopolisation is the future of emergency medicine in Europe

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Patient safety culture in a university hospital emergency department in Switzerland – a survey study

Patient safety culture in a university hospital emergency department in Switzerland – a survey study

Development, implementation and first insights of a time- and location-independent longitudinal postgraduate curriculum in emergency medicine

Emergency medicine in Switzerland: an analysis of physician workforce, gender equality and academics

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