The YEAR OF COVID

“Globally, as of 4:32pm CET, 30 December 2020, there have been 80,773,033 confirmedcases of COVID-19, including 1,783,619 deaths, reported to WHO” https://covid19.who.int/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7JzD34_37QIVBKiGCh15vAuzE AAYASAAEgI3NPD_BwE

What began in late 2019 ravaged the whole world as economies came to a standstill changing the projections for economic growth and human advancement to a totally different trajectory.

At INDUSEM we started off 2020 with academic activities which were suddenly halted in March 2020 as COVID Combat began aggressively infecting India.

Our state level meetings in the first quarter of 2020 in Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra were a grand success.

Toxicology in Trivandrum: https://www.indusem.org/blog/tox-trends-trivandrum/
EMKarnataka2020: https://www.indusem.org/blog/tox-trends-trivandrum/
MAHAEM2020: https://www.indusem.org/blog/mega-success-of-mahaem2020pune/

NEMBRIC2020 and EXAMALATHON2020 Exam review and practical exam courses were a massive hit. We completed 10 Years of NEMBRIC.

https://www.indusem.org/blog/nembric2020-a-decade-of-legacy/

https://www.indusem.org/blog/examthalon-2020-xcellence/

INDUSEM was a partner in the Raigad Bikers Fest 2020 as we promoted safe driving and road safety. https://www.indusem.org/blog/rocking-raigad-bikers-fest-2020/

Then Came the Era of COVID. INDUSEM stood the Call of the Time!

With our experience in Information Technology and the tech back up we moved swiftly to reformat our education and communication formats.

Formative decisions were made to transform EMINDIA2020 and our International WACEM2020 to virtual formats.

INDUSEM is an academic leader hence we evolved a novel virtual format of a Saturday E-Summit on COVID19 which began in March 2020 and is conducted till date every Saturday at 6:30 PM India time.

INDUSEM-ACAIM-WACEM Joined hands to organize this Saturday Summit which has involved over 5000 delegates since March 2020.

The Academic Network produced landmark PubMed Indexed paperson COVID patient care leading to formative guidelines for Triage, Ventilator Management and Home Oxygen Monitoring for patients with COVID.

We came up with a COVID Central Dashboard which listed all the papers in open access format. https://www.indusem.org/blog/indusem-covid-central/

The Weekly Summary of the conference is available at http://beepers365.blogspot.com/

RECOGNITIONS:

Some proud moments for 2020 were our Leaders winning the ACEP2020 awards, Prof. Bhoi publishing in NEJM and Prof. AK Goel launching DM in Emergency Pediatrics at AIIMS Raipur.

EMINDIA2020 and EPICON2020 went Virtual

INDUSEM accomplished the completion of its National Conferences on Emergency Medicine and Emergency Pediatrics virtually using a Weekend Sequential Sessions Format. Hundred of delegates registered for multiple session held from October 2020 to December 2020 on weekend. The recording were available to delegates 24/7 if they could not attend the session or wanted to revisit them.

WHO Recognition

It was a matter of great Pride that The World Health Organization Recognized INDUSEM as a best practice model credited with the development of Academic Emergency Medicine in India using US Partnership.

https://www.indusem.org/blog/who-recognizes-indusem/

In the words of Dr. Sagar Galwankar, CEO INDUSEM

“We end 2020 with solidarity and prayers for all our fellow physicians, healthcare workers and global citizens who lost their lives.

We end 2020 with the resolve that we will maintain safe distancing, wear a mask and not congregate in crowds.

We end 2020 with a hope that we will learn to prepare better, respond efficiently, monitor diligently and protect universally.

We have a vaccine and we should all pray and hope for the world.”