 ABEM Press Release: Board Certification in EMS October 9, 2012
ABEM PRESS RELEASE: BOARD CERTIFICATION IN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES East Lansing, Mich.
The application period for the first EMS certification examination opened October 1, 2012, and will continue through June 30, 2013. The first EMS subspecialty certification examination will be administered October 23-25, 2013, at Pearson VUE professional testing centers.
ABEM is also preparing for the EMS Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Each physician who attains certification in EMS in 2013 will begin participating in EMS MOC in 2014. One component of MOC is Lifelong Learning and Self Assessment (LLSA). LLSA addresses issues of relevance to current practice. The LLSA tests are multiple-choice, open-book tests based on a number of relevant readings. ABEM encourages EMS organizations and individual physicians to submit suggestions for readings. The form for submitting articles and additional information are available on the ABEM website (there also are links from the home page).
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The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certifies emergency physicians who meet its educational, professional standing, and examination standards. Its mission is to protect the public by promoting and sustaining the integrity, quality, and standards of training in and practice of Emergency Medicine. There are currently nearly 29,000 ABEM-certified emergency physicians. ABEM is not a membership organization, but a non-profit, independent evaluation organization. ABEM is one of 24 medical specialty certification boards recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties.
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If you would like more specific information on the EMS Subspecialty Board exam, please click here.  NTIA Notice: State and Local Implementation Grant Program NTIA issues this Notice to announce requirements for the State and Local Implementation Grant Program authorized by section 6302 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Act). The Notice describes the programmatic requirements under which NTIA will award grants to assist state, local, and tribal governments with planning for a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network
NIH Creates Office of Emergency Care Research To help improve health outcomes of patients who require emergency care, the National Institutes of Health has created a new Office of Emergency Care Research (OECR). The office is a focal point for basic, clinical and translational emergency care research and training across NIH.
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New Discovery Channel Series is Looking for True Stories Left for Dead is a new Discovery Channel series about ordinary people who beat the odds and came back to life after being declared dead.
Currently, the Discovery Channel is searching for new stories to feature in upcoming episodes. It is looking for all types of stories, whether the potential victim was saved by a physical intervention in which the human body shut down to protect itself or by the help of a persistent medical services staff member. Using interviews, CGI effects and reenactments, the series will unravel the stories behind how each survivor managed to come back to life and will be filled with medical facts that are rarely reported in the news.
If you have a story/experience you'd like to share, please contact Claudina Del Guidice at cdelguidice@pipeline39.com or (646) 356-0709.
NAEMSP is an E.V.E.N.T Site Partner EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool (E.V.E.N.T.) is a tool designed to improve the safety, quality and consistent delivery of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). It collects data submitted anonymously by EMS practitioners. The data collected will be used to develop policies, procedures and training programs to improve the safe delivery of EMS. A similar system used by airline pilots has led to important airline system improvements based upon pilot reported "near miss" situations and errors.
Any individual who encounters or recognizes a situation in which an EMS safety event occurred, or could have occurred, is strongly encouraged to submit a report by completing the appropriate E.V.E.N.T. Notification Tool. The confidentiality and anonymity of this reporting tool is designed to encourage EMS practitioners to readily report EMS safety events without fear of repercussion.
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"Guidelines for the Field Triage of the Injured Patients" at NAEMSP®Annual Meeting.
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