title: The Eight Cs: a guide to success in an international emergency medicine educational collaboration.
abstract: The Tuscan Emergency Medicine Initiative (TEMI) is a comprehensive emergency medicine (EM) training program designed to build an EM training infrastructure in Tuscany, Italy. The program has successfully trained a team of instructors using a train-the-trainers model, certified 350 physicians who are already practicing in emergency departments (EDs), and established a master's program as a bridge to specialty training at the region's three universities. Using lessons learned from this program, the authors identify eight factors (The Eight Cs) that can serve as a guide to implementing a collaborative EM program in other environments: collaboration, context, culture, credibility, consulting, consistency, critique, and conclusion. Each of these topics is described in detail and may be useful to other international interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. sweiner@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
authors.forename: Scott G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Weiner
authors.forename: Sean P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.forename: Kevin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Ban
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007558:Italy