Many of ACEP’s benefits of membership are some of the most obvious and tangible—having a seat on the RUC—the influential body that sets your payment rates, our advocacy work at the state and federal levels, peer-reviewed research in Annals of Emergency Medicine, and of course, your monthly ACEP Now magazine.

But with so many resources included with your membership, there are bound to be some that may have flown under your radar. Here are a few resources that members have repeatedly told us they were surprised and delighted to find as part of their ACEP membership.

Personalized Cards That Say You Exceed the Need for ‘Merit Badge’ Short Courses

ACEP believes that certification by ABEM or AOBEM supersedes the need for so-called “merit badge” short courses, which generally are designed for a broad spectrum of clinicians, including non-emergency physicians, as well as non-physicians.

However, documented completion of these courses is sometimes required for medical staff privileges. For members who are required to have a card, ACEP offers a set of personalized cards online, which attest that the member is currently Board Certified by ABEM or AOBEM and has expertise in:

• Procedural Sedation;
• Cardiac Resuscitation; and
• Trauma; and

Find out more and print out your card annuals at acep.org/expertisecards.

Maintenance of Certification Center Gets Articles So You Don’t Have To

Emergency physicians who want to stay certified must satisfy all four ABEM MOC components:

• Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment
• Improvement in Medical Practice
• MyEMCert™ Examination with Key Advances
• Professionalism and Professional Standing

ACEP does not set this re-certification process, but we do want to see you succeed. So, ACEP developed the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Center where you can find free resources to help you get everything you need to pass all the re-certification components.

One MOC Center feature that gets the most praise is the set of Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) articles—ACEP has curated access to all the articles you need for each year’s reading lists, both for EM and all the subspecialties, so you don’t have to pay for access to all the different journals and publications. There are also summaries to help.

Find out more about the LLSA reading lists, as well as other re-certification support, at acep.org/moccenter.

Discount on JACEP Open Journal Submissions

ACEP members get a 20 percent discount on JACEP Open article publication charges when submitting a manuscript for publication. After you log in to submit, there is a series of payment discount questions, including whether you are an ACEP member. When you answer “yes,” there is a verification behind the scenes and the discount is applied. JACEP Open, an official journal of ACEP, is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal as a companion to Annals of Emergency Medicine. Its focus is on publishing high quality original peer-reviewed research, across the spectrum of basic and clinical research, in an open access format to the world wide community.