EM Workforce Section Newsroom

February 3, 2023

ACEP EM Workforce Section Meeting

I'm the chair of our workforce section. And, we are wanting to talk about the Hattiesburg study that came out last year. So, let's see. I would also like to see if we can do some introductions quickly...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Going Forward

Our annual Workforce Section meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday, September 23 at 12:00PM CDT. Get involved! Run for office for section leadership! We are looking for leaders to prope...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Letter from the Chair

by Dr. Debbie Fletcher Greetings Workforce! First of all, thank you for all that you have done, and continue to do, in the face of COVID. We are fighters, but we are getting tired. I have come to real...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

EM Workforce Section Operational Guidelines Proposal

We want to re-energize our section! We have updated our Emergency Medicine Workforce Section Operational Guidelines as a proposal to be voted on by our section membership during our annual section mee...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

EM Workforce Officer Nominations

It is time to nominate new officers for the October 2021 through October 2023 terms. Nominees must be current ACEP members and EM Workforce Section Members. Open positions are Chair*, Chair-elect, Sec...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Workforce Section 2021 LAC Report

ACEP Leadership and Advocacy meeting in 2019 had over 500 attendees. It was cancelled in 2020 due to the Coronavirus. This year the meeting was held in person at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC Ju...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

The House of Medicine is Under Attack

LSMS Inauguration Speech HOD 2021 by William Freeman, MD, FACEP, newly installed Louisiana State Medical Society President

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Editor’s Pick – Must Read Articles

These articles are meant to capture the diverse perspectives on various workforce issues and to encourage discussion among our members as we seek innovative solutions for the future of EM.   Implicati...

September 20, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

In case you missed them: Important workforce articles from Workforce Wednesday in ACEP Engaged

News: Private Equity Faulted for Profit over Patients : Emergency Medicine News View numbERs: More Than Numbers, A Beautiful Collective Voice : Emergency Medicine News  The missing variable: The effec...

July 6, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Letter from the Editor

Update from the EM Workforce Section Newsletter Editor, Dr. Debbie Fletcher.

July 6, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Letter from the Chair

Notes from ACEP Virtual council meeting 2020, “Can you hear me now?” by Thom Mitchell, MD.

July 6, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

An Ode to the Differential Diagnosis

Some unfavorable changes in the practice of medicine have been provoked by its overlap with the business of healthcare. The differential diagnosis must not be relegated to the trash pile of history.

July 6, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Go West, Young Man, Go West

The place I work has incoming helicopter traffic since we have interventional cardiology but most helicopter response in rural America is outward. You must use your well-honed broad extant skills to r...

July 6, 2021 • Certification / EM Workforce Section

Editor’s Picks – Must Read Articles

These articles are meant to capture the diverse perspectives on various workforce issues and to encourage discussion among our members as we seek innovative solutions for the future of EM.

September 21, 2020

2020 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives and the Impact of COVID-19

An Overview of the Salaries, Bonuses, and Other Incentives Customarily Used to Recruit Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners and How These May Be Affected by the Coronavirus Pandemi...

September 21, 2020

WTBS 21 The COVID-19 Outbreak Part 2: Emergency Medicine’s Coming of Age

In part 1 of this blog I shared some personal reflections on how to acknowledge and control our fears in order to move ourselves to constructive action in the time of a pandemic.

September 21, 2020

Workforce: Tough Times or Opportunity

What a year! Not even half over and 2020 will be remembered by many for the rest of their lives for various events.

September 21, 2020

The COMEBACK Is Always Stronger Than The SETBACK!

I am asking for all of you to take a deep look into our current situation of COVID-19. We need a REAL conversation regarding how we will re-structure within our current work force in emergency medicin...

September 21, 2020

Emergency Physician Advocacy and The Covid Crisis

The 2020 ACEP Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) was much different this year - as COVID-19 caused the cancellation of in-person meetings.

September 21, 2020

Editor’s Notes

Our Summer 2020 Emergency Medicine Workforce (EMWF) Section newsletter has a glimpse of our Workforce response to COVID-19.

February 20, 2020

2019-2020 Emergency Physician Compensation Report

ACEPNow reported the most recent 2019-2020 Emergency Physician Compensation Report in their October issue.

February 20, 2020

The National Emergency Department Inventory – USA

The Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet) at Massachusetts General Hospital recently posted its summary National ED Inventory (NEDI)-USA data about 2017.

February 20, 2020

#MedicalSchoolMatters

ACEP passed a resolution at the ACEP19 this past October that we are “physicians”, not “providers”. This brings up a terminology issue for “midlevel providers”, “physician extenders”, or “APP”.

October 10, 2019

ACEP Workforce and the Cosmos

I spent the Labor Day weekend with a group of medical school classmates in Amagansett, Rhode Island. One of my classmates shared with me was that he had just finished reading Astrophysics for People i...

October 10, 2019

Message from the Chair

Please allow me to take this opportunity to thank all of you for this unique privilege as I pass the chair position to Dr. Thomas (Thom) Mitchel.
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