What’s Hot and What’s Not in Our National Organizations: An Emergency Medicine Panel, Part 1

Reports on the most important issues facing emergency medicine from the AAEM, AAEM Resident and Student Association, ABEM, and ACEP.

Emergency Medicine. 2016 April;48(4):163-166 | DOI: 10.12788/emed.2016.0023

March 31, 2016|Emergency Medicine

Kevin G. Rodgers, MD;Victoria Weston, MD;Francis L. Counselman, MD

Diversity. There is a recognized need to increase the diversity in our current and future EM leadership. To that end, ACEP sponsored a Diversity Summit on April 14, 2016 in Dallas to explore these issues and make recommendations.

Emergency Quality Network. ACEP, along with 38 other health care organizations, received a grant in the CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative to help physicians achieve large-scale health transformation. Areas of EM focus include: improving outcomes for patients with sepsis; reducing avoidable imaging in low-risk patients through implementation of ACEP’s Choosing Wisely campaign; and improving the value of ED chest pain evaluation in low-risk patients by reducing avoidable testing and admissions.

Editor’s Note: Part 2 of this article will appear in the May 2016 issue of Emergency Medicine and will feature reports from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD), the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). Have a comment or question about this article? Let us know: emed@frontlinemedcom.com.

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