Training Pediatric Emergency Medicine Specialists in India.

The 180-year-old, Madras Medical College, to which the Institute of Child Health (ICH) is affiliated, has an annual intake of 250 under-graduates and 54 pediatric post graduates. Established in 1997, our Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) was equipped by Japan’s International Cooperation Agency [2]. To sustain the project, the Tamil Nadu government sanctioned a faculty position in PEM. Over, the next 18 years, an overwhelming number of seriously ill and injured children were managed [3]. As septic shock was the commonest cause of mortality, a shock protocol was tested [4]. Lessons learnt were video-taped and conducted as the “Paediatric Emergency Medicine Course” [5]. In 2010, our University made completion of this course compulsory for house officers during their internship. Since 2011, a post-doctoral fellowship course is being conducted under the auspices of the University.