GW’s emergency medicine institute is teaming up with a group of hospitals in southern Asia to offer a master’s program in emergency medicine.
AMRI Hospitals, a group of private hospitals in West Bengal and Odisha, India, and Bangladesh, will offer the course with the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine, according to Business Standard. Eight to 12 fellows will able to participate in the courses, which will focus on emergency and trauma care.
Jeffrey Smith, director of the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine, told Business Standard he was “happy” the group of hospitals “has recognized the need to train physicians in emergency medicine.”
“The department of emergency medicine at the George Washington University is the seventh largest academic emergency medicine department in the US,” he said. “This collaboration also marks our footprint in Odisha.”
In 2013, SMHS rolled out an online bachelor’s degree program to train individuals on how to manage and train emergency response teams. Last year, the school also received a grant to work with the federal government on how to respond to emergency scenarios with mass casualties.