Table 1 Milestones of emergency medicine development in Brazil

1992   ● Emergency Medicine course created as part of medical school curriculum of University of São Paulo (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

1996   ● First Emergency Medicine residency program—Hospital de Pronto Socorro (Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil)

2003   ● Implementation of the National Emergency Care Policy and the creation of SAMU 192 as a national prehospital strategy.

2007   ● First national conference of Emergency Medicine (Gramado, RS, Brazil)

              ● “Letter of Gramado” (Gramado, RS, Brazil)

2008   ● Creation of the Brazilian Association of Emergency Medicine (ABRAMEDE)

              ● Second Emergency Medicine residency program—Hospital de Messejana (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil)

              ● Implementation of Emergency Care Units (in Portuguese, Unidades de Posto Atendimento [UPA])

2009   ● Second national conference of Emergency Medicine (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil).

2010   ● “Letter of Porto Alegre” (Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil)

              ● First national political forum to discuss emergency care in Brasília, DF (capital of Brazil)

2011   ● Second national political forum to discuss emergency care in Brasília, DF (capital of Brazil). The need for the recognition of the specialty is acknowledged as a key priority.

              ● Third national conference of Emergency Medicine (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

2012   ● Third national political forum to discuss emergency care in Brasília, DF (capital of Brazil)

2013   ● Fourth national conference of Emergency Medicine (Curitiba, PR, Brazil)

2015   ● Emergency medicine approved to become an official medical specialty by the key national regulatory bodies.

2016   ● Official recognition of Emergency Medicine as a specialty (on August 2016 the official document is released by the Federal Council of Medicine).

              ● Several new Emergency Medicine residency programs were launched nationally.