Written by INDUS MED NEWS 24 October, 2017 2:03 am .
WACEM2017 – The 3rd World Academic Congress of Emergency Medicine was held from 8th October to 15th October 2017 in the Cultural National of Sri Lanka.
Held across Two cities of Colombo and Galle it enjoyed the unrestricted support of the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine.
The Congress began with grand public health events of walkathons and photography exhibitions highlighting injury prevention. Galle City hosted the Sonography Skills Schools. These were held from 8th to 10th October 2017.
The BioPrep Course was held on 11th and 12th October 2017 which was attended by decision leaders across the world.
13th October witnessed multiple skills schools held across key academic institutions in Colombo.
The INDUSEM Awards Night was held on 13th October where Achievers were honored. Ramon Magsaysay Award winners Dr. Prakash Baba Amte and Dr. Mandakini Prakash Amte were the Speakers at the Awards Night. The Dr. Amte Couple have spent their lives improving the lives of tribals in the jungles of Maharashtra India. They were inspiring as they narrated their story of how they managed emergencies in a vastly ignorant tribe and living without electricity for 20 years.Today that region has a full-fledged hospital, residential school and the tribal children have gone on to become lawyers, physicians and engineers.
14th& 15th October was the main congress. The 14th& 15th October 2017 saw the congress being held at National Hospital of Sri Lanka at Colombo with live telecast of all sessions to delegates across Academic Institutions in Sri Lanka. The 7th Convocation of the Academic College of Emergency Experts in India was held on 14th October 2017.
14th October was the Gala Night where Sri Lanka presented itself to the world as a hub for innovation and clinical advancement.
WACEM2017 Leaders Dr. Aruna Munasinghe, Dr. Samiddhi Smarakoon and Dr. Amal Harsha DSilva deserved all the credit for making WACEM2017 a grand success.
Attended by over 1500 delegates and live telecast to all Sri Lanka Teaching institutions and the world WACEM2017 set new benchmarks for Global EM Conferencing with its 8 days of hard core education by over 200 world faculty.
The 2018 WACEM will be held in Doha City of Qatar.
Its Destination Doha !
About INDUSEM:
The INDUSEM mission is to envision and implement the future of Patient Care across the world. The partnership brings together Expert Educators, Inquisitive Innovators and Physicians supporting Safe Patient Care across India, United States and the World. INDUSEM is the Top International Partnership across the World and brings together Institutions, Individuals and Initiatives focused on improving patient care globally. Till date INDUSEM has reached over 50,000 Experts and its reach continues to grow daily. For more information, visit www.indusem.org
About WACEM:
The World Academic Congress of Emergency Medicine is the official annual meeting of the World Academic Council for Emergency Medicine. The Council was launched in 2016 and the Constitution was finalized in 2017. Founded by Academic leaders from USA, UK, Italy, Qatar, UAE, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore & Japan WACEM is a Non Political 100% Academic Organization focused on working with individual academicians, academic institutions and academic organization to forward the Science of Emergency Patient Care. All clinical specialties namely trauma, critical care, cardiology, neurosciences, pediatrics, orthopedics, acute care surgery and emergency medicine involved in the academic science of Emergency Patient Care are a part of the WACEM Agenda. For More Information: www.wacem.org
