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Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Education (UEME) is an undervalued area in the development of Emergency Medicine around the globe. If you read the articles regarding Emergency Medicine clerkships or if you travel to different countries and discuss their undergraduate education with local leaders, you can easily recognize the gaps between countries. Today, there are few countries in the world that have appropriately designed UEME programs in their medical schools. The majority of the countries (even some developed ones) have no guidelines, curricula, or enough educational resources. In addition, there are limited resources (textbooks, websites) for medical students/interns which covers their educational needs based on current UEME recommendations. This book is a product of an international collaboration of emergency physicians and Emergency Medicine enthusiasts. It intends to show that we can produce a free book and resource if we work collaboratively. It is a product of endless hours of hard work of all Editors, authors, and contributors. We thank all of them for trusting us in this journey. This is just a start to build up better Emergency Medicine resources for medical students and interns, especially for developing countries. It is a continuous process, and there are a lot of areas that we need to improve in this book. Therefore, we are looking forward to your feedback and collaboration. We also believe that international UEME will reach the minimum required standards in all countries based on the endless collaboration of emergency medicine professionals.
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Title Page INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE EDUCATION PROJECT iem-student.org iEmergency Medicine for Medical Students and Interns 1st Edition, Version 1, 2018 A Free Book For Emergency Medicine Clerkship Students Editors Arif Alper Cevik Lit Sin Quek Abdel Noureldin Elif Dilek Cakal i Copyright Copyright ©2018 International Emergency Medicine (iEM) Education Project Resources shared by iEM Education Project through website, book content, image and video archive are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution in any non-commercial medium. You give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Edited by Arif Alper Cevik, Lit Sin Quek, Abdel Noureldin, and Elif Dilek Cakal Cover design Arif Alper Cevik Book design and production Arif Alper Cevik Published by iEM Education Project, iem-student.org First electronic edition, 2018, Version 1 INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE EDUCATION PROJECT iem-student.org ii What is iEM? International Emergency Medicine (iEM) Education Project is an international, non-profit project, endorsed by International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) and supported by Emergency Medicine professionals from all around the world. Currently, there are 146 contributors from 21 countries in the project. It aims to promote Emergency Medicine and provide free, reusable educational content for undergraduate medical trainees and educators. The project focuses mainly on undergraduate curriculum, but learners from all levels (medical students, interns, residents) and their educators may benefit from it. It is targeted at all learners around the globe. However, learners from areas with limited resources have a special place in mind. The book "iEmergency Medicine for Medical Students and Interns" is a part of the project content and service. It was created by 133 international contributors. At the publication time, the book content provided in the i