Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open
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J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open · Oct 2020
ReviewEmergency medicine in Norway: The road to specialty recognition.
Emergency medicine (EM) in most of Europe is a much newer specialty than in the United States. Until recently, emergency departments (EDs) in Norway were staffed with unsupervised interns, leading to a government report in 2008 that called for change. ⋯ Norway faced many of the same obstacles as the United States did with implementing the specialty 60 years ago. This article serves as a review of the conflict that may ensue when enacting a change in public policy and a resource to those countries that have yet to implement an emergency medicine specialty.