1990–1999

Above: Field test for the first emergency medicine board examination.

Timetable for certification examination development, September 1, 1975

“For those of us in emergency medicine during the formative years ACEP provided education pertinent to the evolving specialty, encouragement for those dedicated to helping the specialty become recognized by our peers in medicine. It has been a privilege to ‘grow up’ with ACEP and see it assume the role it has today in providing efficient care for the sick and injured.”
—CHARLES A. CATON, MD, FACEP
50-YEAR ACEP MEMBER AND FIRST ABEM
CERTIFIED EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN IN UTAH

July 1990

ACEP published the first clinical policy on chest pain

October 10, 1991

International Federation of Emergency Medicine formed

January 1992

First Medicare Physician Fee Schedule published

1992

ABMS approved the first two ABEM subspecialty certifications, medical toxicology and sports medicine

David Davis, MD, and ACEP developed prudent layperson standard for ED visits; Maryland the first state legislature in the nation to pass prudent layperson