Global connection through the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM)

Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Hong Kong is a metropolitan vibrant city, connecting the world through our extensive networks, expertise, learning attitude and willingness to participate in matters outside Hong Kong. Within the field of medicine, healthcare professionals of Hong Kong are reputable internationally with health statistics ranking among the best in the world. Local emergency care workers have contributed to the credit for safeguarding health of citizens of Hong Kong. Emergency medicine (EM) is part of the emergency care (EC) spectrum. To ensure a healthy and safe community, EM should reach beyond the boundary of the hospital. International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) has recently enhanced its vision from ‘fostering the worldwide development of EM as a specialty’ to a wider scope of ‘advocating universal access to high quality emergency medical care around the world’. To achieve that vision, IFEM has three missions: