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Emergency medicine was performed by general practitioners (having followed a 240-hour course, Acute Medicine) or by specialists (surgeon, internal medicine, neurologist, anesthesiologist) with or without supra-speciality training in emergency medicine. Since 2005 residency training exists for acute medicine (3 years) or emergency medicine (6 ...
The Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) is a professional organization that represents over 90% of resident physicians training in emergency medicine in the United States. EMRA is both the largest and the oldest independent medical resident group in the world. [1]
Medical resident work hours refers to the (often lengthy) shifts worked by medical interns and residents during their medical residency. As per the rules of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the United States of America, residents are allowed to work a maximum of 80 hours a week averaged over a 4-week period.
An emergency physician (often called an "ER doctor" in the United States) is a physician who works in an emergency department to care for ill patients. The emergency physician specializes in advanced cardiac life support (advanced life support in Europe), resuscitation, trauma care such as fractures and soft tissue injuries, and management of other life-threatening situations.
Following her residency, Dr. Houry became an assistant professor of emergency medicine and of occupational and environmental health at Emory University, as well as associate director of Emory’s Center for Injury Control. While serving in this role, she was elected as the president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Stanley Stohl (Eddie Jemison) is the former Chief of Emergency Medicine (Dr. Choi's predecessor) who earned the nickname "The Troll" from the ED staff for his sarcastic tone and bluntness. Dr. Jason Wheeler (Jurgen Hooper) is an emergency medicine resident introduced in the season 2 premiere.
aaem .org. The American Academy of Emergency Medicine ( AAEM) is a nonprofit professional medical association of emergency medicine physicians. It was formed in 1993, and is based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AAEM was established promote fair and equitable practice environments necessary to allow emergency physicians to deliver the highest ...
Pediatric emergency physicians in the United States take one of two routes of training; one can do a pediatrics residency (3 years) followed by a pediatric emergency fellowship (3 years), or an emergency medicine residency (3–4 years) followed by a pediatric emergency fellowship (2 years). Majority of practicing PEM doctors take the former route.