One of the shining beacons in Indian emergency medicine
has been the evolution of academic training for physicians.
Medical colleges have always emphasized a minimum of 2
weeks spent in ‘casualties’ of hospitals during the mandatory
year of internship training prior to obtaining the
baccalaureate in medicine and surgery.
The lack of specialist training in the field was one of the
principal issues highlighted by the white paper on Indian
emergency medicine published by the INDUS collaboration