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Benefits of Membership

BEING A MEMBER OF EMSOG;

  • Means having a voice to speak for patients, emergency physicians and your specialty.
  • The Knowledge, skill, and experience that comes from our emergency medicine training for physicians are not replaceable and we are firm on this point. EMSOG stands behind our members as the leader of the emergency team, supervising NPs and PAs.
  • Provides a means of support to small groups in practice and need resources to succeed.
  • Allows you to exchange ideas and best practices through our engaged platform. EMSOG connect people with shared interests.
  • Get special pricing for education and tools that can help you prep and stay current.
  • Allows you to expand your network, gain access to member-only benefits and invest in yourself and your career to be your best in the near future. It’s worth the investment.

Members of the Emergency Medicine Society of Ghana (EMSOG) also enjoys the benefits of its associate societies (AFEM, IFEM, WACEM and WADEM).

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.

  • The right to appoint one member to the Assembly.
  • The right to one vote.
  • The right to serve on the Executive or committees subject to regulations.
  • The right to apply to hold an IFEM conference or symposium.
  • The right to nominate for awards (subject to payment of a small administrative charge).
  • The right to state that your organization is an IFEM member on your own website
  • Reduced cost IFEM endorsement for conferences (subject to approval)
  • Reduced cost job advertising on the IFEM website
  • Free addition for events on the IFEM website events calendar
  • Addition of your organization website to the IFEM website via a link

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.

OTHER BENEFITS INCLUDE:

  • IFEM’S Committee, Special Interest Group and Taskforce infrastructure opens a pathway for your Members to have an active involvement in creating standards, guidelines, and a unified approach too many common EM related clinical, academic and organizational problems.
  • IFEM offers assistance to EM practitioners in countries who don’t have EM recognized as a specialty.
  • IFEM offers assistance to countries who recognize EM as a specialty by assisting in the development of training programs, undergraduate and graduate curriculums, and assessment methods.

WADEM Affiliate Membership

  • A print and online subscription to Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM)
  • Unlimited access to the entire digital archive of PDM (34 Volumes);
  • Access to the recent recordings and slide decks from the webinar series
  • A 20% discount on annual memberships for individual members of affiliate organizations;
  • Recognition on the WADEM website (logo, website hyperlink, mission statement, etc.); and
  • Promotion of affiliates’ events (conferences, workshops, webinars, etc.) through email and social media.

Individual Membership

  • An online subscription to Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM)
  • Unlimited access to the entire digital archive of PDM (34 Volumes)
  • Access to the recent recordings and slide decks from the webinar series
  • Registration discounts for the WADEM Congress 2021 in Tokyo
  • Global networking, contact, and collaboration opportunities
  • Voting privileges for the WADEM Board of Directors
  • 20% discount on books purchased from Cambridge University Press;
  • Member-discount for Gold Open Access publishing from Cambridge University Press (a $1,320 USD value);
  • Participation opportunities in WADEM Special Interest Groups (SIG), Committees, and Regional Chapters; and
  • Email updates from the WADEM International Office.