Freely Accessible Medical Education (FAME) for Africa

The 4th African Conference on Emergency Medicine (AfCEM) will be held this year, 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda, 7 through 9 November. Previous conferences in Ghana (2012), Ethiopia (2014) and Egypt (2016), have shown that Africa can host world-class conferences, and the upcoming conference in Rwanda will continue to build on those successes. The AfCEM draws speakers and delegates from all over Africa and further afield, sharing experiences and opinion to help further the development of emergency care in Africa. This year the theme is Breaking Barriers in Emergency Medicine Education. Emergency medicine education in Africa is the key to in- creasing the number of well-trained emergency care providers across the continent. Additionally, education is a vital component of devel- oping systems and fostering research to address health needs. New systems in emergency medicine will not flourish unless people learn how to use them, and new research cannot be implemented without communicating the findings.