58th Weekly Summit with ACAIM-WACEM : Dedicated to War with Variants of COVID in 2021

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24th April 2022

The World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine and The American College of Academic International Medicine had a Special Global Meeting dedicated to the resurgence of COVID Variants in 2021.

As countries such as Indian grapple with the resurgence of COVID infections, it was apt time to address few important aspects of the Pandemic.

1. COVID Pandemic will now be a Cyclical Endemic 

2. COVID Prevention with revolve around Human Behavior and Vaccine Acceptability

3. Physician Competencies and Health Care Processes will need to be restructured around this new norm

4. Vaccine Boosters and Chronic COVID manifestations will happen.

5. The rising reality of Pediatric COVID has to be addressed.

Speakers:

Prof. Venkat (IIM Lucknow) : Spoke on the Restructuring of Oxygen Supply chain across India

Prof. Siddharth Dubhashi (AIIMS Nagpur): Presented update on the Plant Based Study for COVID Care

Dr. Indrani Sardesai (UK): Presented the UK COVID Data 

Dr. Sagar Sinha (India): Discussed the current COVID Situation in Mumbai and the various strategies being adopted to curb the surge.

Dr. Veronica Sikka (USA): Discussed about the update on the TeleHealth Consensus paper which is being worked on. 

 

57th Weekly Summit with WHO-CCET : Dedicated to Developing Academic Emergency Medicine in India Session -IV

 17^th April 2021

70 Colleges participated in The 56th Week weekly Summits Dedicated to implementing the NITIAyog India mandate to developing Academic Emergency Medicine departments across medical colleges in India.

Professor Sanjeev Bhoi

Director of the World Health Organization Center for Emergency and Trauma in SEARO

Professor Siddharth Dubhashi

Head of Surgical Disciplines AIIMS Nagpur

Dr. Sagar Galwankar

CEO, INDUSEM

Dr. Tej Sinha 

Associate Professor of AIIMS, EM New Delhi

Update on the Status of the 0f Compliance with the mandate was given to the new colleges being inducted. 

Detail discussion was done on

1. Faculty Development Program: With progress made in individual components of curriculum

2. Departmental Guidelines were mentioned in further detail with focus on resuscitation

3. Academic Processes with regards to syllabus

4. Implementation of the Mandate with FDP aimed for June 1^st 2021

 

56th Weekly Summit with WHO-CCET : Dedicated to Developing Academic Emergency Medicine in India Session -III

 

10^th April 2021

30 Colleges participated in The 56th Week weekly Summits Dedicated to implementing the NITIAyog India mandate to developing Academic Emergency Medicine departments across medical colleges in India.

Faculty: 

Professor Praveen Aggarwal

Head of AIIMS Emergency Medicine

Professor Sanjeev Bhoi

Director of the World Health Organization Center for Emergency and Trauma in SEARO

Professor Siddharth Dubhashi

Head of Surgical Disciplines AIIMS Nagpur

Dr. Sagar Galwankar

CEO, INDUSEM

Dr. Tej Sinha 

Associate Professor of AIIMS, EM New Delhi

Update on the Status of the 161 Colleges in Compliance given to the 30 new  colleges being inducted. 

Detail discussion was done on

1. Faculty Development Program: The fundamentals and core curriculum

2. Departmental Guidelines for providing quality EM Care

3. Academic Processes for teaching and taking exams

4. Implementation of the Mandate in the coming months with FDP planned for June 1^st Launch

55th Weekly Summit with WHO-CCET : Dedicated to Developing Academic Emergency Medicine in India Session -II

3rd April 2021

66 Colleges participated in The 55th Week weekly Summits Dedicated to implementing the NITIAyog India mandate to developing Academic Emergency Medicine departments across medical colleges in India.

Faculty: Professor Praveen Aggarwal

Head of AIIMS Emergency Medicine

Professor Sanjeev Bhoi

Director of the World Health Organization Center for Emergency and Trauma in SEARO

Professor Siddharth Dubhashi

Head of Surgical Disciplines AIIMS Nagpur

Dr. Sagar Galwankar

CEO, INDUSEM

Update on the Status of the 95 Colleges in Compliance with the mandate was given to the new 66 colleges being inducted. 

Detail discussion was done on

1. Faculty Development Program

2. Departmental Guidelines

3. Academic Processes

4. Implementation of the Mandate

54th Weekly Summit with WHO-CCET : Dedicated to Developing Academic Emergency Medicine in India Session -I

27th March 2021

95 Colleges participated in The 54th Week marked the beginning of Weekly Summits Dedicated to implementing the NITIAyog India mandate to developing Academic Emergency Medicine departments across medical colleges in India.

Faculty: 

Professor Praveen Aggarwal

Head of AIIMS Emergency Medicine

Professor Sanjeev Bhoi

Director of the World Health Organization Center for Emergency and Trauma in SEARO

Professor Siddharth Dubhashi

Head of Surgical Disciplines AIIMS Nagpur

Dr. Sagar Galwankar

CEO, INDUSEM

Dr. Tej Sinha 

Associate Professor of AIIMS, EM New Delhi

Detail discussion was done on

1. Faculty Development Program

2. Departmental Guidelines

3. Academic Processes

4. Implementation of the Mandate