How Long Should EM Residency Be? New Studies Shed Light
U.S. emergency medicine (EM) residency training length has been a decades-long dilemma: four vs. three years. Two...
ACEP Now: Vol 42 – No 06 – June 2023
West Virginia EPs Explain Challenges of Rural EM to Their Legislators
Catherine “Kirby” Kirbos, MD, is a fellow at West Virginia University who works at several different emergency...
Emergency Physicians as State Legislators
During the recent Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) in Washington, D.C., I met with two emergency physicians...
Toxicology Question: What Biblical Plant Can Cause Severe Eye Irritation?
Hint: It produces a tasty fruit. Click here to read the answer.
ACEP’s Leadership & Advocacy Conference Reminds Us We Aren’t Alone
ACEP’s Annual Leadership & Advocacy Conference (LAC) was held April 30–May 2 in Washington, D.C. With Congressional...
The Surprise Billing Fight Continues
For nearly two years, ACEP has been fighting to ensure that the federal government’s implementation of the...
Conversations on Burnout
With recent studies showing emergency physicians topping the charts with 65 percent reporting burnout, the specialty is...
How To Avoid Missing an Aortic Dissection
A 50-year-old female develops chest pain radiating to the neck and left arm. ECG, CXR, and troponin...
Ten Ways to Communicate Empathy in Chaos
When considering an optimized environment for compassionate patient communication, the chaotic emergency department (ED) probably gives some...
Toxicology Answer: The Fig Tree
Background My favorite part of the fig plant (Ficus carica L.) is the fruit, of course. These...
Dr. Chatbot Will See You Now
If you’re wondering about the hype with chatbots in medicine, perhaps it’s because they’re nothing new: the...
Leveraging Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) in Emergency Medicine: Opportunities, Risks, and Cautions
Recently, large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT and Med-PaLM, have generated a lot of buzz in the...
A First Look at Emergency Department Data for 2022
The role of emergency physicians has been made dramatically more important due to the pandemic. The performance...
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients in the Emergency Department
Case You enter the room to see the next case and find two people. One is the...
Two Big Changes in Community Acquired Pneumonia Treatment
Although the treatment of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is bread-and-butter emergency medicine, several guidelines and landmark studies...
June 2023 News From the College
Bonus Content: ACEP23 Registration Now Includes Free Access to Virtual ACEP23 For the first time ever, those...
