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The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine-sponsored residency and fellowship programs, as well as the residents and fellows training in those programs. We present the 2018 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine training programs.
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Emergency Medicine/education , Fellowships and Scholarships , Internship and Residency , Emergency Medicine/statistics & numerical data , Fellowships and Scholarships/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Internship and Residency/statistics & numerical data , Specialty Boards , United StatesABSTRACT
The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency programs and the residents training in those programs. We present the 2017 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine training programs.
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Emergency Medicine/education , Fellowships and Scholarships , Internship and Residency , Adult , Certification/statistics & numerical data , Emergency Medicine/statistics & numerical data , Fellowships and Scholarships/statistics & numerical data , Female , Humans , Internship and Residency/statistics & numerical data , Male , United StatesABSTRACT
The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency programs and the residents training in those programs. We present the 2016 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine training programs.
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Emergency Medicine/education , Internship and Residency/statistics & numerical data , Specialty Boards , Adult , Emergency Medicine/statistics & numerical data , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , United States , Young AdultABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) convened a summit of stakeholders in Emergency Medicine (EM) to critically review the ABEM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program. OBJECTIVE: The newly introduced American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) 2015 MOC Standards require that the ABMS Member Boards, including ABEM, "engage in continual quality monitoring and improvement of its Program for MOC " ABEM sought to have the EM community participate in the quality improvement process. DISCUSSION: A review of the ABMS philosophy of MOC and requirements for MOC were presented, followed by an exposition of the ABEM MOC Program. Roundtable discussions included strengths of the program and opportunities for improvement; defining, teaching, and assessing professionalism; identifying and filling competency gaps; and enhancing relevancy and adding value to the ABEM MOC Program. CONCLUSIONS: Several suggestions to improve the ABEM MOC Program were discussed. ABEM will consider these recommendations when developing its next revision of the ABEM MOC Program.
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Certification/methods , Certification/standards , Emergency Medicine/standards , Societies, Medical , Clinical Competence/standards , Education, Medical, Continuing/standards , Emergency Medicine/education , Humans , Quality Improvement , Specialty Boards , United StatesABSTRACT
The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency programs and the residents in those programs. We present the 2015 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine training programs.
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Emergency Medicine/education , Internship and Residency/statistics & numerical data , Specialty Boards , Students, Medical/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Educational Measurement , Emergency Medicine/statistics & numerical data , Fellowships and Scholarships/statistics & numerical data , Female , Humans , Male , United StatesABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program requires every ABEM-certified physician to attest to participating in a quality improvement (QI) activity every 5 years. Understanding the type and frequency of these QI activities could inform the emergency medicine community about the variety of QI activities in which emergency physicians (EPs) are involved. These QI activities could provide ideas for the development of additional quality measures. METHODS: This was a retrospective descriptive study of self-reported QI activity attestations from the ABEM MOC program during 2013. Attestations were provided by ABEM-certified EPs using the ABEM MOC website. The type, number, and cumulative frequency of activities are reported. RESULTS: ABEM received 9,380 attestations for QI activities in 91 different categories. The three most commonly reported activities were acute myocardial infarction-percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes of arrival (includes door-to-balloon time), door-to-doctor times, and throughput time measures. These three activities comprised 36.4% of attestations. More than half (54.4%) of the attestations were captured by the five most frequently attested activities, 67.1% by the top seven categories, and 89.9% by the top 21 categories. Of these 21 categories, 10 involved clinical protocols, nine were time-centered measures, and two were patient-centered activities. CONCLUSIONS: This report demonstrates that diverse QI activities occur in emergency departments (EDs) across the United States. The majority of reported projects are nested in a few categories, following recognized areas of emphasis in emergency care, particularly in areas using time-sensitive metrics.
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Certification/standards , Emergency Service, Hospital/organization & administration , Quality Improvement/organization & administration , Documentation , Emergency Medicine/standards , Emergency Service, Hospital/standards , Female , Humans , Physicians , Retrospective Studies , Time Factors , Time-to-Treatment , United StatesABSTRACT
The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents in those programs. We present the 2012 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine training programs.
