Accordingly, ACEP strongly discourages the use of certificates of completion of courses such as Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS), or a specified number of continuing medical education hours in a sub-area of emergency medicine, as requirements for privileges or employment for physicians certified by ABEM or AOBEM.
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ACEP News: Vol 31 – No 10 – October 2012Certificates of completion of focused courses should only be used as requirements for privileges or employment for ABEM- or AOBEM-certified physicians in connection with new procedures that evolve into the practice of emergency medicine and in which the physicians have not received formal training.
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