Allowing ED physicians not certified in EM to join will fulfill our mission—and ultimately help patients
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Should ACEP reopen membership to non–emergency medicine board-certified physicians? Absolutely. Before we get started, this is not an issue of emergency medicine board certification and whether that is considered the gold standard. Rather, it is an issue about who can join ACEP, our professional organization, and whom it represents.
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One Response to “Open ACEP Membership to All Emergency Physicians”
August 25, 2014
Anoop KumarWhat’s missing in this conversation is the topic of what the core skill is in emergency medicine. Consummate emergency physicians are masters of management as a whole, not just differential diagnosis or doing procedures. Leadership and management define the core of EM, but our residency programs and professional societies have so far not embraced this philosophy. Because we haven’t done so, we are a fractured specialty. We argue over who really is an EP and who deserves to be boarded without being clear on who we are to begin with.
If we embrace this philosophy and act on it, we will take our specialty to new heights as leaders in healthcare. It is something we sorely need in today’s healthcare climate.
I commented extensively on this is an article written last year:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/09/leadership-management-define-core-emergency-medicine.html
Cheers,
Anoop Kumar, MD