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These initiatives aim to equip physicians with an evidence-based approach and effective management strategies for common emergency-department scenarios. ESEM hosted the second Global Network Collaborative Conference on Emergency Medicine in 2013 and organized its first large scientific conference in Dubai in December 2014.
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