INDO-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative (INDUSEM)

The INDO-US Emergency and Trauma partnership involves the University of South Florida (USF), SUNY Downstate, Baroda Medical College-SSG Hospital and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). It enjoys the whole hearted support of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine. This partnership came into existence in 2005 at New Delhi, India. Academic Leaders from US and India shared similar blueprints regarding the development of the academic fields of Trauma and Emergency care in India.

This partnership was built on a “Non Colonial Model” and has adopted the “Academic Institutional Partnership Ideology”. Thus INDUS-EM collaborative is about Scientists, Academicians & Institutions of learning.

Physicians go through a life long process of perfecting their learned practices. They learn these practices at their medical colleges. It is the medical colleges which award them their credentials. The birth place of any medical expert’s expertise is the training institution hence if any new science has to be developed and taught the ideal sites are none other than medical colleges across India. The INDUS-EM Leadership believe that the role of MCI recognized Medical Colleges and Academic Institutions is Crucial to develop the academic fraternity in Emergency and Trauma which by itself are new academic sciences to India. To forge ahead it is important that interested academicians meet and discuss science and policy and at the same time promote the specialty in India.