ACEP 50 Years
Navigation
  • ACEP Now Home
  • Introduction
  • 1968–1979
  • 1980–1989
  • 1990–1999
  • 2000–2009
  • 2010–2018
  • Sponsored Articles

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

November 1992

First pediatric emergency medicine board exam

1993

ACEP celebrated 25th anniversary

1993

September 1994

ER television series premiered
Credit: Pictoral Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo

September 1994

September 1996

First woman, Nancy Auer, MD, elected ACEP President

August 1997

Prudent layperson standard extended to Medicare and Medicaid

1997

Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills Workshop launched

February 1998

Prudent layperson standard extended to federal employees

1998

Safety Net Task Force established


911 Legislative Advocacy Network established
Credit: Shutterstock

1998

Emergency Resident Training: The Foundation of the Safety Net

September 25, 2018 - Mary Jo Wagner, MD, FACEP; and Karen Appold - 0 Comment

As a push toward specialty status for emergency medicine emerged in the medical community in the late…

Read More

The Long Road to the Recognition of Emergency Medicine

September 25, 2018 - ACEP Now - 0 Comment

This article is based on an interview with Benson S. Munger, PhD, founding executive director of the…

Read More
Wiley
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Advertise
  • Cookie Preferences
Copyright © 2025 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. ISSN 2333-2603