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Dear Senators Booker and Scott and Representatives Davis and Burgess: The undersigned organizations, all committed to improving outcomes for individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD), look to you for needed leadership in addressing the needs of this community. As we recognize the SCD patient and provider communities during Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month, we remain […]

Livonia, Mi– Today, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Senator Stabenow (D-MI) introduced a bipartisan, bicameral resolution designating today, September 17th as National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. This resolution is co-led by; Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, (D-IL), Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA), and Rep. Judy Chu […]

Statement reviewed and approved by AAEM Board of Directors. (9/16/2021) What is Palliative Care?The Center to Advance Palliative Care has provided the following definition: Early involvement is associated with greater benefits, including improved quality and reduced cost of care. An increasing number of professional society guidelines recommend early palliative involvement, eg., American College of Emergency […]

AAEM supports the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship and object to any interference in thatrelationship. Approved 9.16.21

EM Physician Organizations Form Mental Health Collaborative, Issue Joint Statement and Call to Action Regarding Mental Health Care Stigma in EM Each year in the U.S., roughly 300 to 400 physicians die by suicide1 — approximately double the suicide rate in the general population.2 More than half of physicians know of a physician who has […]

Emergency medicine is more than just a ride to the hospital, it is a system of coordinated response and emergency medical care, involving multiple people and agencies. With the current surge in COVID-19 and the highly contagious Delta variant causing a national emergency medical crisis, six of the country’s top associations in the space of […]

Statement reviewed and approved by AAEM Board of Directors. (9/14/2020)Updated 4/26/2021 and 8/16/2021. Recommendations: Executive Summary Reference and Literature Grading (PDF)

Updated statement as of 8.6.21 AAEM recently signed onto the joint statement supporting COVID-19 vaccine mandates for all workers in health and long-term care (provided below). However, in addition as evidence continues to accumulate and we come to a greater understanding of COVID-19 infection, it appears that prior confirmed infection with COVID-19 produces a robust […]

Dear Secretary McDonough: The undersigned physician organizations have recently learned of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Supremacy Project. We are writing to express our serious concerns with the VA’s efforts to develop National Standards of Practice for physicians and other health professionals that supersede state scope of practice and licensure laws. In particular, we […]

Our specialty has been working for decades to meet the growing emergency medicine needs of our country. The recent research is critical to identifying and understanding the challenges we face about the future workforce for both academic and community emergency physicians. Market consolidation, fragmentation and health care economics have shifted incentives across our industry. On […]

Our specialty has been working for decades to meet the growing emergency medicine needs of our country. Therecent research is critical to identifying and understanding the challenges we face about the future workforce for bothacademic and community emergency physicians. Market consolidation, fragmentation and health care economics have shifted incentives across our industry. On top ofthese […]

Introduction AAEM has received much feedback from our members regarding concerns that the rapid proliferation in the number of emergency medicine resident positions, and increased utilization of non-physician practitioners at emergency department training sites has negatively impacted the quality of emergency medicine resident education.  Position Statement AAEM suggests the ACGME Emergency Medicine Residency Review Committee […]

Vicki Norton MD FAAEM, AAEM Board of DirectorsSaba Rizvi, MD FAAEM AAEM recognizes UnitedHealthcare’s deferment of their dangerous and ill-advised policy to limit patients seeking emergency care. Patients who fear they are having a true emergency should not be deterred from going to the emergency department. They should not be concerned about their insurance later […]

Vicki Norton MD FAAEM, AAEM Board of DirectorsSaba Rizvi, MD FAAEM AAEM recognizes UnitedHealthcare’s deferment of their dangerous and ill-advised policy to limit patients seeking emergency care. Patients who fear they are having a true emergency should not be deterred from going to the emergency department. They should not be concerned about their insurance later […]

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) is gratified that the House of Emergency Medicine is discussing the workforce issue in our specialty. On Friday morning, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) hosted a virtual meeting, “EM Physician Workforce of the Future,” in which they presented the findings of a study commissioned by them and […]

Statement reviewed and approved by AAEM Board of Directors. (4/8/2021) Summary Recommendation:There is substantial clinical uncertainty regarding the management of head injured patients taking DOACs for delayed intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) as there are no high-quality studies evaluating this question. DOACs have been generally shown to have a reduced rate of mortality, hemorrhagic stroke, and intracranial […]

Part I: Emergency Medicine Rotations and LettersOn January 25, 2021, the Coalition for Physician Accountability (CoPA) released guidelines regarding away rotations for students participating in the upcoming residency application cycle in light of the ongoing COVID19 pandemic. The primary recommendations were: As a field that relies heavily on away rotations, Emergency Medicine (EM) is uniquely […]

March 19, 2021 As experts in toxicology, pharmacology, emergency medicine, and public health, the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT), American Academy of Emergency Medicine(AAEM), and the American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) highly recommend vaccination against COVID-19 with the currently authorized vaccines. In December 2020, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized […]

Emergency Physicians are at potential risk for moral conflict and burnout when trying to accommodate the many challenges for caring for seriously ill patients in the ED. The patient care needs and what the physician “feels is right” have become more apparent with the large volume of patients requiring treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. There […]

Re: RIN 2900–AQ94—Authority of VA Professionals to Practice Health Care AAEM signed on to a joint statement via email to to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs opposing the Interim Final Rule (IFR) NPPs are an integral part of physician-led health care teams. However, NPPs cannot substitute for physicians especially when it comes to […]

Dear President-elect Biden, Due to the fiscal and public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of workers remain unemployed and workers who have jobs face increasing precarity and coercive practices in the labor market. Employers’ use of non-compete clauses is an example of a coercive practice that threatens all workers. Non-competes require workers, […]

Distinguished Members of the COVID-19 Expert Vaccine Allocation Panel, We first want to thank you for your time and dedication to our great state during this health care crisis. The work your panel is tasked with is critical in how our state moves forward from this pandemic. On behalf of a coalition of emergency care […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many EDs have instituted policies that limit or prevent family members and/or loved ones from visiting patients who are being treated for COVID-19. While the initial intent was to limit the exposure of visitors to the virus, the practice has instead led to arguments, despair, and friction between the visitors […]

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) are committed to supporting women and underrepresented in medicine (URiM) faculty in advancing their careers and achieving academic promotion. Promotion not only celebrates individual achievement, […]

Chair: Al Giwa, MD MBA MBE FAAEMVice Chair: Jennifer Gemmill, MD FAAEM Position Statement Subgroup:Alfredo Urdaneta, MD FAAEM (Lead)Al Giwa, MD MBA MBE FAAEMDan Mayer, MD FAAEMMatthew Turney, MD FAAEM AAEM Ethics Committee Position Statement As professionals, physicians must aspire to live a morally upstanding life, both in our professional and personal spaces. Physicians must […]