Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) is one of the specialized societies of the Emirates Medical Association (EMA) a non-profit organization established by the Ministry Social Affairs – Ministerial Decree No. (24) In the year 1980. ESEM was established in Aug 28 2012 by a group of Emergency Physicians who sensed the need to unite the specialty under one umbrella with the vision to be the vanguard of Emergency Medicine in the UAE and the region.

As the specialty of Emergency Medicine grows in the region and in UAE specifically, ESEM comes in to strengthen the knowledge and relationship amongst all emergency medical care providers, physicians; nurses; paramedics or residents.

Emergency Medicine in the UAE is heading toward a promising future. Since the foundation of ESEM, the EM community has come together to support a series of very successful milestones in the development of EM. ESEM aims to have an impact on the way EM is delivered in the country and regionally. We believe that this can happen in a Top-Down AND Bottom-Up approach. We need to educate our practitioners about things they need to change within their own local communities (up-to-date knowledge and clinical skills, administration and flow issues, and research etc). The other side is the "bigger picture" which is very important to tackle at a society level, although it may NOT be very exciting to many practitioners (they feel it's too big for them). We plan to address the later through inviting policy makers to activities (involving key people from the Ministry of Health, Health Authorities, and other relevant entities) to address the "system" level issues and hope to get out of these activities with considerable achievements, if possible.

With the unique development the UAE is experiencing, EM is also getting an important attention from the government and ESEM is working on utilizing this attention to boost this field and structure a state-of-the-art emergency medical care in UAE.

Furthermore, ESEM plans to be the "Hub" for high quality EM education regionally. We hope to offer cutting-edge, innovative, and practice/policy-changing activities. Therefore we carefully select our scientific activities and plan to make ESEM annual conference (started in 2014) a "Brand" that people regionally and internationally have it high up in their list. ESEM 2014 was a huge success and we are planning to build on that.