New Position Statement: Raising Emergency Medicine Residency Standards
AAEM approved the following position statement regarding steps to take to address the oversupply of EM physicians by 2030.
AAEM suggests the ACGME Emergency Medicine Residency Review Committee take action to raise emergency medicine training and quality standards by setting a minimum number of patients at the primary site emergency department per resident and setting a maximum percentage of emergency department patients seen by non-physician practitioners (NPPs).