2007 EM Model Review Task Force Harold A. Thomas, MD, Chair Michael S. Beeson, MD Louis S. Binder, MD Patrick H. Brunett, MD Merle A. Carter, MD Carey D. Chisholm, MD Douglas L. McGee, DO Debra G. Perina, MD Michael J. Tocci, MD From the American Board of Emergency Medicine, East Lansing, MI (Thomas, Perina); Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, Lansing, MI (Brunett); Residency Re...

Each year, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Board of Emergency Medicine co-sponsor an educational session at the Association of ‘American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting. The 1997 session was entitled “Emergency Department Initiatives to Improve the Public Health,” and included presentations by 4 invited speakers: Dr. Le...

This was a historic summer in Chicago for emergency medicine. On July 18, 2015, John W. Becher, DO, became the 119th president of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), while a month earlier, on June 9, 2015, Steven J. Stack, MD, became the 170th president of the American Medical Association (AMA). This is the first time that emergency physicians have led the two largest professional physi...

*Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, †Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and ‡Department of Anesthesiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York Reprint Address: Lawrence Haines, MD, MPH, RDMS, Division of Emergency Ultrasonography, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 1...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pediatric emergency care internationally is practiced in a wide variety of local contexts, and the quality of care varies. International pediatric emergency medicine refers to the spectrum of care provided to children with serious illnesses and injuries globally. This article serves as the first of its kind to characterize current trends and challenges in this area. RECENT F...

  Background: CT scan and nuclear medicine exams deliver a great part of medical exposures. This study examined professional radiation hazards in CT scan and nuclear medicine workers.   Methods : In a cross sectional study 30 occupationally exposed workers and 7 controls (all from personnel of a laboratory) were selected. Physical dosimetry was performed for exposed workers. Blood samples were ...

Section Editor: Douglas S. Ander, MD Submission history: Submitted June 15, 2016; Revision received September 30, 2016; Accepted October 27, 2016 Electronically published [date] Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.10.31266 *University of Arizona, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tucson, Arizona University of Washington, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of use of the terms "accident and emergency" and "emergency medicine" and their derivatives in original articles in the Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine. METHODS Hand search of all articles in the Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine from September 1995 to July 2000, categorising the first use of terminology in each original article to desc...

Edited by Roy Alson, MD, PhD, Medical Director, North Carolina Baptist AirCare; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Howard A Bessen, MD, Program Director, Professor of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; John Halamka, MD, Chief Inf...