The Future of Emergency Medicine
Abstract
Physician shortages are being projected for most medical specialties. The specialty of emergency medicine continues to experience a significant workforce shortage in the face of increasing demand for emergency care. The limited supply of emergency physicians, emergency nurses, and other resources is creating an urgent, untenable patient care problem. In July 2009, representatives of the leading emergency medicine organizations met in Dallas, TX, for the Future of Emergency Medicine Summit. This consensus document, agreed to and cowritten by all participating organizations, describes the substantive issues discussed and provides a foundation for the future of the specialty.
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Supervising Editor: Michael L. Callaham, MD
Michael Handrigan is observer.Mary Ann Reinhart is observer.Harold Thomas is observer.
Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.
Publication dates: Received for publication February 16, 2010. Accepted for publication March 30, 2010.
This article has been reprinted with permission from the Annals of Emergency Medicine, published online ahead of print June 22, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.04.011. It will also appear in The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians quarterly newsletter, The Pulse, the Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine. One of the contributing authors, William Briggs, served as ENA President, 2009.
PII: S0099-1767(10)00285-0
doi:10.1016/j.jen.2010.06.013
© 2010 Published by Elsevier Inc.
