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February 3, 2023
I'm the chair of our workforce section. And, we are wanting to talk about the Hattiesburg study that came out last year. So, let's see. I would also like to see if we can do some introductions quickly...
September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section
Our annual Workforce Section meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday, September 23 at 12:00PM CDT. Get involved! Run for office for section leadership! We are looking for leaders to prope...
We want to re-energize our section! We have updated our Emergency Medicine Workforce Section Operational Guidelines as a proposal to be voted on by our section membership during our annual section mee...
It is time to nominate new officers for the October 2021 through October 2023 terms. Nominees must be current ACEP members and EM Workforce Section Members. Open positions are Chair*, Chair-elect, Sec...
ACEP Leadership and Advocacy meeting in 2019 had over 500 attendees. It was cancelled in 2020 due to the Coronavirus. This year the meeting was held in person at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC Ju...
LSMS Inauguration Speech HOD 2021 by William Freeman, MD, FACEP, newly installed Louisiana State Medical Society President
These articles are meant to capture the diverse perspectives on various workforce issues and to encourage discussion among our members as we seek innovative solutions for the future of EM. Implication...
News: Private Equity Faulted for Profit over Patients : Emergency Medicine News View numbERs: More Than Numbers, A Beautiful Collective Voice : Emergency Medicine News The missing variable: The effec...
July 6, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section
Some unfavorable changes in the practice of medicine have been provoked by its overlap with the business of healthcare. The differential diagnosis must not be relegated to the trash pile of history.
The place I work has incoming helicopter traffic since we have interventional cardiology but most helicopter response in rural America is outward. You must use your well-honed broad extant skills to r...
These articles are meant to capture the diverse perspectives on various workforce issues and to encourage discussion among our members as we seek innovative solutions for the future of EM.
September 21, 2020
An Overview of the Salaries, Bonuses, and Other Incentives Customarily Used to Recruit Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners and How These May Be Affected by the Coronavirus Pandemi...
In part 1 of this blog I shared some personal reflections on how to acknowledge and control our fears in order to move ourselves to constructive action in the time of a pandemic.
What a year! Not even half over and 2020 will be remembered by many for the rest of their lives for various events.
I am asking for all of you to take a deep look into our current situation of COVID-19. We need a REAL conversation regarding how we will re-structure within our current work force in emergency medicin...
The 2020 ACEP Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) was much different this year - as COVID-19 caused the cancellation of in-person meetings.
February 20, 2020
ACEPNow reported the most recent 2019-2020 Emergency Physician Compensation Report in their October issue.
The Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet) at Massachusetts General Hospital recently posted its summary National ED Inventory (NEDI)-USA data about 2017.
ACEP passed a resolution at the ACEP19 this past October that we are “physicians”, not “providers”. This brings up a terminology issue for “midlevel providers”, “physician extenders”, or “APP”.
October 10, 2019
I spent the Labor Day weekend with a group of medical school classmates in Amagansett, Rhode Island. One of my classmates shared with me was that he had just finished reading Astrophysics for People i...
July 3, 2019
One of my favorite events each year is the American College of Emergency Physician Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC).
December 3, 2018
This is the tenth year I have had the opportunity to participate as a Tennessee Chapter representative at the ACEP Council meeting. Council is held the two days prior to ACEP Scientific Assembly. This...
ACEP had a very successful Council meeting and Scientific Assembly in sunny San Diego as the members celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the specialty of Emergency Medicine. I wish ever...
July 26, 2018
One of my favorite meetings each year is the ACEP Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC). This year it was held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC, May 20-23, 2018. This is a recently renovated fa...
Currently the emergency department (ED) is known as a place that provides services to all who seek care, regardless of nature of illness or ability to pay and is an important source of admissions for ...
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