EM Workforce

Position Statements

FSMB Consensus Proposal

I. FSMB recommends "3. All applicants for licensure should have satisfactorily completed a minimum of three years of postgraduate training in an ACGME- or AOA-approved postgraduate training program, including completion of PGY3 level training prior to full and unrestricted licensure." With regard to the FSMB recommendation to restrict full licensure to physicians that have completed […]
Position Statement on Emergency Nurse-to-Patient ED Staffing Ratios

Whereas the volume of ED visits continues to rise and now exceeds 100 million in the United States annually; and Whereas the scope of Emergency Medicine requires a high intensity of service for many conditions, especially during the first hour of treatment; and Whereas emergency nursing involves patient evaluation, interval assessments, medication administration, procedure assistance, […]

Articles

The Emergency Medicine Workforce: Shortage Resolving, Future Surplus Expected – Journal of Emergency Medicine April 2020

Why Did AAEM Take a Stand Against APP Independent Practice? – EM News April 2019

Emergency Medicine Workforce Committee

Letter from the Chairs

The APP Task Force has been working on issues that surround emergency medicine and affect emergency physicians. This task force produced the updated AAEM position statement on Advanced Practice Providers and published two related articles; one in Common Sense and one in EMNews.

The Workforce Task Force produced the AAEM position statement on Emergency Medicine Workforce after researching the continued growth of EM residency programs over the last decade in addition to APP programs. Dr. Reiter’s original 2016 article on the data on physician workforce and the EM workforce, including the impact of physician extenders and scribes on the practice of EM has been updated and submitted for publication.

We recognize that these issues are very pivotal to emergency medicine and will be a part of our landscape for the unforeseen future, thus deserving of our attention at the committee level. We will continue the important work started by the respective task forces and anticipate that their synergy as a committee will be very productive.

NPP or the EM Workforce Concern Form

If you are an AAEM member and wish to submit a question or concern for the AAEM EM Workforce Committee to review, please use this form. Concerns regarding the unsupervised practice of non-physician practitioners (NPPs) or the replacement of physicians by NPPs may be submitted for review.

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Infographics

AAEM/RSA Infographic: What It Takes to Make a Doctor

AAEM EM Workforce Committee Infographic: Who is Treating Your Emergency? (PDF)