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Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) is one of the specialized societies of the Emirates Medical Association (EMA) a non-profit organization established by the Ministry Social Affairs – Ministerial Decree No. (24) In the year 1980. ESEM was established in Aug 28 2012 by a group of Emergency Physicians who sensed the need to unite the specialty under one umbrella with the vision to be the vanguard of Emergency Medicine (EM) in the UAE and the region.

EM in the UAE is heading toward a promising future. Since the foundation of ESEM, the EM community has come together to support a series of very successful milestones in the development of EM. ESEM aims to have an impact on the way EM is delivered in the country and regionally. We believe that this can happen in a Top-Down AND Bottom-Up approach. We need to educate our practitioners about things they need to change within their own local communities. The other side is the “bigger picture” which is very important to tackle at a society level, although it may not be very exciting to many practitioners. We plan to address the later through inviting policy makers to activities to address the “system” level issues and hope to get out of these activities with considerable achievements, if possible.

With the unique development the UAE is experiencing, EM is also getting an important attention from the government and ESEM is working on utilizing this attention to boost this field and structure a state-of-the-art emergency medical care in UAE.

Furthermore, ESEM plans to be the “Hub” for high quality EM education regionally. We hope to offer cutting-edge, innovative, and practice/policy-changing activities. Therefore we carefully select our scientific activities and plan to make ESEM annual conference that started in 2014 a “Brand” that people regionally and internationally have it high up in their list.