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ACEP Council Tackles Key Issues During Philadelphia Meeting

ACEP Now

The Council consists of members representing ACEP’s 53 chapters, 39 sections of membership, the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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Gradually Circling Around the GRACE Project’s “Reasonable Practice”

ACEP Now

In an environment in which patients may have their entire work-up in the waiting room, or attend a critical access hospital staffed by non-emergency physicians, or lack the financial support to follow up with an appropriate specialist, a pragmatic approach to care is required. References Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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SGEM Xtra: From EBM to FBM – Gender Equity in the House of Medicine

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

After graduation they began working at a high-volume, high-acuity critical access hospital. Men * Who rises to the top academic positions at universities? Men * Who rises to the top academic positions in medicine? Men * Who rises to the top academic positions in Emergency Medicine? a href="[link]

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

ACEP Now

Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. One of the major areas of focus must be on the distribution of emergency physicians with opportunities within residency to have substantive rural and critical access experience.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

Dr. Gaddis is a “PGY-37” who has stepped away from full-time employment after a 32-year full-time career in academic emergency medicine, and now works a limited number of shifts in a rural Critical Access hospital in Missouri.