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Urgent Med Equity
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project Urgent Med Equity (UME) has started as a finding of the lack of human resources in the ambulance emergency medicine both in Romania and Europe. The causes for this deficit of emergency physicians in Romania are many, some examples being: the migration of doctors abroad, inadequate legislation (according to the Law 95/2006, Title IV the automatic defibrillator can be used only by physicians and even in cases of emergency assistants cannot intervene), lack of interest of authorities, lack of youth interest towards this specialization, the risks assumed by the ambulance doctors, heavy working conditions, low wages and low promotion of this specialization in universities. The effects of these issues are critical: people die in accidents because of the lack of ambulance doctors or because they are not able to apply all the maneuvers to save lives (according to the law 95/2006); young medical graduates choose to go abroad or to work in the hospital because they are not motivated by a career in the ambulance emergency medicine. UME project is initiated by the Ambulance Service Association of Romania (ASAR), will run from August 1, 2015 - November 1, 2016 and will involve 98 young people under 30 as direct beneficiaries of the project, about 15,000 students from faculties of medicine in Romania, representatives of health policies, directors of hospitals, universities, representatives of other NGOs in the field of medicine, and resort ministries. The project will be implemented at national level in 8 cities in Romania. UME specific objectives are: increasing student volunteering in ambulance emergency medicine, a campaign to promote the specialization of ambulance emergency medicine, conducting a lobby campaign to change the law 95/2006. UME project objectives will be achieved through an advocacy campaign through which that we want to influence the public policy reform in the field of ambulance emergency medicine and defend the rights and interests of young students - future professionals in emergency medicine. The activities of structured dialogue with young people and policy makers will gather 548 participants and will result in: the realization of two national conferences which will bring together 120 young people each and public policies representatives from 8 cities, 7 round table that will bring together 14 young people at local level and 7 local seminars that will gather 30 young people each and representatives of health policies. During the meetings we will use different methods of learning, including: debates, speeches, motivational presentations, case studies, group exercises, discussion, development of scenarios and their analysis. The project will generate a series of results through which we will promote the UME project objectives: 1 Website, 3 videos, one survey applied to 1,000 medical students, 1 on line petition that will reach the support of minimum 10,000 citizens for changing the law 95/2006. UME will have a significant impact on the young participants, which will be manifested both at national and European level: increasing the number of young people who voluntarily contribute in their community, improving the quality of medical services in the emergency medicine at local and national level, increasing the visibility of the specialization ambulance emergency medicine, stimulate the culture of political participation.
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