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Scandinavian Emergency Medicine – A toddler steadily walking but still not running

Maaret Castrén email

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Clinical Science and Education, SÖS, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2008, 16:6doi:10.1186/1757-7241-16-6

Published: 19 August 2008

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I recently read an editorial that reflected upon the past 25 years of emergency medicine [1]. The mantra of the emergency medicine field is "you have to know a lot more than a little about everything". Emergency medicine is extremely fascinating, but may also be very frightening to newly graduated colleagues who are just beginning their careers. Scandinavian universities are still not teaching emergency medicine as a discipline; however, this obstacle does not prevent us from publishing a high quality journal from which young doctors can read.


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