Workforce
Ethical Issues of the Emergency Medicine Workforce
A recent study commissioned by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) identified a likely scenario of…
Freestanding Emergency Departments as a Workforce Solution
The Cleveland Clinic has developed a hub-and-spoke acute care model that, if applied more broadly, could address…
Emergency Medicine Workforce Entry & Attrition: 2013–2019
Since publication of the multi-organization workforce report led by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), graduating…
Wyoming Has a Different Kind of Bounceback Problem
Makenzie Bartsch, MD, was entering her third year of her emergency medicine residency in the summer of…
Emergency Medicine Residents Share Their Innovations in Our Field
For this month’s “Resident Voice” column, I explore how emergency medicine residents are innovating the field of…
By the Numbers: Current Emergency Medicine Specialty Statistics
In 2020 48,835 clinically active emergency physicians Median age 50 28% Women Emergency Physicians 14.9 per 100,000…
ACEP Sets Upcoming Advocacy Priorities
Every year, ACEP’s Federal Government Affairs Committee and the ACEP advocacy team work together to establish broad…
By the Numbers: the Side Effects of Stress Among Health Care Workers
Total of 20,665 respondents. Across 124 health care institutions. Intentions to reduce work hours Physicians 31% Nurses…
Crisis Emergency Department Challenges in a Long Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen crisis standards of care created and implemented in emergency departments across the…