Emergency Medicine in Ireland

The representative body for Emergency Medicine (EM) in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) is the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine. There have always been very close ties between EM in the RoI and the UK in spite of there inevitably being different administrative arrangements in the two jurisdictions. The Irish Higher Training scheme in EM, administered by the Advisory Committee on Emergency Medicine Training (ACEMT), uses the CEM curriculum for training and the FCEM as its exit examination. From 2011, the only acceptable qualification to enter specialist training will be the MCEM examination.

 Emergency Departments fulfil the same functions in the RoI as they do in the UK. Public healthcare, including EM, in the RoI is provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Heretofore, interaction between EM and either the HSE or the Department of Health and Children has been conducted exclusively by IAEM. The welcome advent of an Irish National Board of CEM will allow the benefits of a much larger College structure to be brought to bear, in addition to the local expertise IAEM provides.

There are formal links between IAEM, ACEMT and CEM, with the President of IAEM and the chair of ACEMT both being members of the Irish National Board of CEM.

Further information is available here