The Department of Emergency Medicine supports formal interest groups in topics related to Emergency Medicine to facilitate:
- Identification of people interested in a particular sub-topic within more global emergency medicine
- Communication among those individuals to promote research, best practices and knowledge sharing
- Interdisciplinary contacts and communications
- Maintaining leadership in these topics/fields among interdisciplinary partners
- Documentation of activity to promote awareness to the department, the Faculty of Medicine, the University of BC and the broader interested public
- A natural progression to a formal Division if warranted