Emergency Medicine
For 6 years, the Good Samaritans provided critical
knowledge and skills for Vietnam to establish its first
Emergency Medicine program.
Changing Lives, one at a time!
What's New:
April 6th, 2012
Summer Team 2012.
Healthcare Assistants, Sugical Specialists and Nurses for Summer Team 2012 are full. We are still accepting more primary care providers, dentists, pharmacists. Contact us HERE.
Current News:
April 17, 2012
Emergency Medicine Society &Residency
The Good Samaritans congratulate Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy on the Ministry of Health's approval of the first Emergency Medicine Residency in the country AND our all colleagues in Vietnam for the establishment of the Vietnam Society of Emergency Medicine. This is another milestone for medicine in Vietnam.
Joseph Lex, M.D., FAAEM, FACEP
Chairman - 2010 Emergency Medicine Symposium
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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine |
Dr. Joe Lex has been involved in Emergency Medicine for more than 42 years, initially as an Army medic with the 25th Infantry "Tropic Lightning" Division in Vietnam. He spent several years as an Emergency Medicine Technician and Certified Emergency Nurse before beginning Medical School at age 35. After an Emergency Medicine residency, he was a community "pit doc" for 14 years before joining the staff at Temple University in Philadelphia. He was Chair of Education for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for five years. The AAEM honored him by renaming the Educator of the Year award the "Joe Lex Award." He has been an invited speaker at more than 250 conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally. He has been a featured speaker numerous times on Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine, Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EMRAP).