In response to public pressure for greater accountability from the medical profession, a transformation is occurring in the approach to medical education and assessment of physician competency. Over the past 5 years, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has implemented the Outcomes and General Competencies projects to better ensure that physicians are appropriately t...

Currently, there is no internationally recognised, standard curriculum that defines the basic minimum standards for emergency medicine education. To address this, the International Federation for Emergency Medicine convened a committee of international experts in emergency medicine and international emergency medicine development to outline a global curriculum for medical students in emergency ...

1332. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole vs. Placebo for Patients with an Incised and Drained Cutaneous Abscess David Talan, MD, FIDSA, FACEP; William Mower, MD, PhD; Fredrick Abrahamian, DO; Anusha Krishnadasan, PhD; Frank Lovecchio, DO, MPH; David Karras, MD; Mark Steele, MD; Richard Rothman, MD, PhD; Gregory Moran, MD, FIDSA, FACEP; Emergenc...

In 2001, "The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine" was first published. This document, the first of its kind, was the result of an extensive practice analysis of emergency department (ED) visits and several expert panels, overseen by representatives from six collaborating professional organizations (the American Board of Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Phy...

*Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, †Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and ‡Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Reprint Address: Barry Brenner, MD, PHD, Professor o...

Peter Cameron, Cherri Hobgood and Terrence Mulligan Monash University, Academic Director Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; ACEP Section for International EM, Emergency Medicine Residency, and Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Departmen...

Michael T. McCurdy, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Tsuyoshi Mitarai, MD Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Stanford Hospital; Clinical Instructor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanfor...

1. Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Out of Hospital Care. 3930 Georgetown Rd, Indianapolis, IN, 46252 2. University of Wisconsin Division of Emergency Medicine. Madison, WI 3. Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine. 720 Eskanazi Ave 3rd. Floor, Indianapolis, IN, 46202. 4. Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services...