Membership

Membership Categories                          

There are three levels of membership which are described below – Full membership, Affiliate membership and Ex-Officio membership. Application forms together with the Memorandum and Articles of Association (in English) should be forwarded to the IFEM Secretariat.  Applications will be considered at the next scheduled IFEM Board meeting. 

Full Member: A Full Member of the IFEM will be the leading national emergency medicine organization for physicians in a country in which emergency medicine is officially recognized as a medical specialty and where there also exists at least one (1) recognized training program in emergency medicine. A Full Member will appoint one (1) representative to the Board; this representative will have one (1) full vote. Full Members are eligible to apply for consideration for the right to host the IFEM’s biannual conference, ICEM.

Affiliate Member: An Affiliate Member may be any national emergency medicine organization for physicians practicing emergency medicine in a country where the specialty of emergency medicine is not yet officially recognized or residency equivalent training programs in emergency medicine do not yet exist. An Affiliate Member may also be any additional national emergency medicine organization for physicians practicing emergency medicine from a country already represented by a Full or Founding Member. Affiliate Members may appoint one (1) non-voting member to the Board. Affiliate Members are eligible to apply for consideration for the right to host the IFEM’s biannual conference, ICEM.

Ex-Officio: An Ex-Officio member will be defined as a multinational emergency medicine organisation.  Ex-Officio members may appoint one (1) non-voting member to the Board.

SUBSCRIPTIONS, including CONCESSIONS & EXEMPTIONS

• Annual subscriptions, fees and charges, and criteria for concessions and exemptions for member organisations to be set by the Board on the recommendation of the Finance Committee.

• Fees and subscriptions calculated in $US and paid to the Secretariat each year in the currency appropriate to the Secretariat host nation.

• Concessions and exemptions considered by the Honorary Treasurer and the Executive Officer (EO) of the Secretariat in line with the By-Laws, and based on written application by member organisations. Reviewed by Executive and the Board only when outside the By-Laws.

• Threshold level for per capita Gross National Income (GNI) based on data published by the World Bank.

• The Honorary Treasurer has been authorised by the Board of the IFEM to waive the annual subscription from an organisation from a country with a per capita GNI below the threshold upon application by that organization for the waiver to apply.

2010 Membership Subscription Fees