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Welcome to the International emergency training center SMI, COSTA RICA:
SMI (Intensive Medical Services) is dedicated to strengthen the knowledge in medical emergencies through its many courses, all of which are directed by a highly trained medical staff. We rely on up to date didactic tools to achieve a better understanding of the courses we provide.
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  Our mision
To develop education in the emergency field, in a responsible form that will promote a transcendental change in the approach of the topic and therefore increase the opportunities for survival; all of which is based on personalized teaching and under the precepts of defense of the scientific and rational. All of which will have experimental basis and will provide the participant with firm foundations, favoring its development both in the personal level as well as in his professional field; this will be shown as a benefit for social development an a better quality of live.
  Our vision
Become an academic reference for medical organizations and emergency preparations, in the local level as well as in the international scene focusing in Central America. With this we intent to reach a balance development in emergency education having a big impact in Costa Rica that could transform into a better promotion of the health of its habitants.
  Our Philosophy
The management and teaching in emergency medicine puts us in a daily basis, on every instant in difficult decisions, in quagmires, not only in the personal level but also in the therapeutic side; situations that in many occasions go against our ideas or worst yet that develop with results that go against our best wishes. Our actions are always focused on complementing or are simply the fundamental piece of the effort to provide the best assistance possible to those whom we are working for. Parting from that situation we understand how we are through the teaching and practice of emergency medicine the other force that tries to eliminate the threats that are affecting people in a certain moment. That’s why emergencies are a continuous comparison and life experiences such as the “Ying-Yang”, and believing in this, is why SMI develops its education with a different platform to apply this philosophy in life. Having this in mind is why we focus our teachings in the individual, in what’s optimal always searching for excellence with responsibility and honesty. According to this idea, every being, object or though has a complement in which in depends for his existence and that at the same time exist within him. Therefore it is resolved that nothing exist in a pure state or motionless, but in a continuous transformation, and this forces us to develop the teachings on emergency medicine so that we can be prepared to face the different challenges that face us and provide a better service to our communities.

We base the principle of balance inciting learning and not believing in errors as they might be conceived but better yet identifying critical situations in which we can improve permanently. To embrace this situation and complete the void in some areas of knowledge is what help us provide the student with a wisdom that will benefit all his future patients. Is well known that those who teach only grow as proportionate as their students do. Basing this in the “Ying-Yang” philosophy when one grows in excess in forces the other to focus and grow in a parallel line.