From: Emergency medicine in Brazil: historical perspective, current status, and future challenges
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. |