Practice & Innovation: Revolutionizing acute, unscheduled care, developing new career opportunities, and taking the lead in reshaping the emergency medicine workforce landscape. The latter is a clear top issue. It is important to demonstrate that residency trained physicians are the most preferred clinicians based on education, training, and procedural skills. We need to demonstrate that the quality of care and outcomes are the highest when patients are treated by an emergency physician.

Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Positions: attending emergency physician, Hillcrest Medical Center Emergency Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; professor of emergency medicine, EMS section chief, and director, Oklahoma Center for Prehospital & Disaster Medicine, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa; chief medical officer, medical control board, EMS System for Metropolitan Oklahoma City & Tulsa; medical director, Oklahoma Highway Patrol; medical director, Tulsa Community College EMS Education Programs

Internships and Residency: emergency medicine residency, Methodist Hospital of Indiana/Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; EMS fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

Medical Degree: MD, Medical School at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (1995)

Response

Career Fulfillment and Member Engagement. Even a cursory review at acep.org/strategicplan will show my bias about career fulfillment. You’ll find on reviewing the many leaders, members, and staff involved (over 100!) that I’m incredibly privileged to co-lead the Career Fulfillment team with David McKenzie, CAE, ACEP’s incredible reimbursement director. Now, you might jump to the conclusion that we believe all career fulfillment is found through money, money, and more money. No. Does money matter to emergency physicians? Well, sure, just as it matters to non-emergency physicians, too! Just ask our neighbors, friends, and patients. Money is only part of the equation. We all want to feel valued and respected in non-monetary ways, too. Due process, safe work environments, clinical and administrative opportunities at hospital and health care systems, ACEP state chapter, and national ACEP levels can enhance our emergency medicine careers. I’m concerned about the dynamics of a U.S. health care system that can exploit our dedication and commitment to patients, which reach far beyond the regulatory demands of EMTALA.

How do we improve career fulfillment? Many ways, including success in workforce and scope of practice dynamics through a strong, vibrant ACEP. We listen to one another, seek areas of common ground over the challenges and limits to advancing our careers, then equally invest in “best practices” among our members, helping to share local successes so they disseminate throughout our members’ practices.