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In November 1994, Professor Hu Shengchuan called on the advanced emergency services at that time to initiate the establishment of the "Republic of China Emergency Medicine Association", began to formulate training courses and screening methods for emergency specialists, and actively promoted emergency medicine to become a designated specialty. On January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred in Japan, and emergency medical rescue was paid attention to. 

In July of the same year, the Legislative Yuan passed my country's "Emergency Medical Care Law" in response to social needs and advanced emergency services. The legal basis for the implementation of pre-hospital care. With the vigorous promotion of the Association and the support of the then director of the Department of Health Zhan Qixian, in January 1998, the emergency specialist was recognized as the designated specialist, and the "Emergency Medicine Specialist Selection Committee" was established to conduct the specialist examination and select for emergency medical treatment professionals. 

In 2008, the Ministry of Health and Welfare abolished the "Emergency Medicine Specialist Screening Committee", and appointed the committee to be fully responsible for the screening of emergency medical specialists. By January 2016, there were 1,756 emergency physicians who had passed the screening, and the membership of the association had exceeded 2,000.

Website - www.sem.org.tw

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