1 CCP Editorial 1.pmd Page 1 1 Vol. 47, No. 2, 2016 Editorial This volume has dedicated a substantial section to explore a relatively new field within our health care system – Emergency Medicine. We acknowledge with gratitude the contributions made herein by our Australian colleagues, have helped our own groups of personnel for over a decade. From igniting our local interest in the specialty to formal capacity building, from establishing a state of the art centre in Karapitiya with funding from the state of Victoria after the tsunami of 2004 to assist in the development of a dedicated postgraduate training course in the PGIM and in the conduct of formal assessments and examination for the 1st batch of budding specialists in Emergency Medicine – the Sri Lanka Australian collaboration has indeed been very fruitful and fulfilling. The field of Emergency Medicine encourages multiple spheres to work together as individuals …