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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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10 Tips for New Attending Emergency Physicians

ACEP Now

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. If you have a difficult outcome, it is helpful to know what risk management support you have at your hospital. The past is the past.

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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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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

ACEP Now

We understand there are large community hospitals, academic centers and rural hospitals with vastly different resources and needs. ED ACCREDITATION ACEP’s ED Accreditation Program will include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Rural Emergency or Critical Access Hospital accreditation.

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

ACEP Now

Warfarin pills are inexpensive, but the associated hospital care is not. 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.

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

ACEP Now

Our Indiana ACEP colleagues have helped us all as emergency physicians in championing the passage of state legislation mandating a physician leading a hospital’s emergency department to be physically present in that hospital.