iEM education project, which supported by United Arab Emirates University College of Medicine and Health Sciences and endorsed by the IFEM, announced a 4-week free open online emergency medicine core content course for medical students via IFEM newsletter and multiple emergency medicine platforms at the end of the April. In the first 24 hours, the course website (iem-course.org) was visited more than 3000 times from 57 countries. Syria (13%), Indonesia (10.6%), Thailand (8.1%), United States (7.3%), and Vietnam (6.5%) were the top five countries where registered students are coming from. The report of this social responsibility initiative shows a great collaboration of academic, non-profit and commercial organisations during a pandemic. The background and the first 24 hours of this journey has now been published as an editorial in the African Journal of Emergency Medicine.
You can read the editorial “From the pandemic’s front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students” from this link – (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211419X2030135X).
