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Learn the Business of EM from the Experts

The business of emergency medicine continues to become an even bigger area of focus for many emergency physicians. But with so many clinical and practice management skills to learn, it’s easy to skim over the administrative, legal, and reimbursement aspects of medicine.

“Practice Essentials of Emergency Medicine” is designed to augment your knowledge of several critical business topics.

Developed for physicians—by physicians—through a collaboration between ACEP and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA), “Practice Essentials of Emergency Medicine” distills the knowledge of top field experts into tangible, focused modules that learners can work through at their own pace.

This evolving curriculum will grow as learners’ needs—and the health care landscape—change over time. This month, new modules were added, and the robust online curriculum now offers 11 important topic areas.

See what’s available at acep.org/PracticeEssentials.

Have Erroneous Expert Witness Testimony Reviewed

What can you do if you believe an expert witness provided erroneous or egregious testimony against you in a recent liability suit? There are steps you can take through ACEP to have testimony reviewed for accuracy, with erroneous testimony brought to the attention of the membership, or, if the expert witness is an ACEP member, you can consider filing an ethics complaint against the expert for providing such testimony.

ACEP’s Standard of Care Review process can provide an anonymous review and report on potentially egregious expert witness testimony.

The review process is used to publicize examples of expert witness testimony or reports as to the standard of care that does not meet the ACEP criteria for accuracy. Several instances have been reported and reviewed with summaries found online, without mention of any identifying information.

ACEP believes that a physician providing testimony as an expert witness clearly has an ethical responsibility to be objective, truthful, and impartial when evaluating a case based on generally accepted standards of practice. It is unethical to overstate one’s opinions or credentials, to misrepresent maloccurence as malpractice, to bear false testimony, or to use the name of the College as evidence of expertise.

Find out more about the process and the cases, as well as how ethical violation charges can be brought against fellow ACEP members for allegedly providing such egregious expert witness testimony at acep.org/MedicalLegal.