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What is Emergency Medicine?
Emergency Medicine (EM) is a distinct specialty that focuses on the initial evaluation, diagnosis, and stabilization of patients with acute illnesses or injuries. In addition, the EM physician initiates treatment, involves consultants, makes disposition decisions and appropriate follow-up arrangements for patients discharged from the emergency department (ED). Emergency Medicine became the 23rd recognized specialty in 1979. There are at least seven areas of specialized expertise separating the EM specialist from other disciplines:
1. Resuscitation
2. Toxicology
3. EMS systems design and supervision
4. Disaster management / Mass Gathering
5. Environmental emergencies
6. Acute Pain Management
7. Wound Care
Description/Overview
THE IUSOM EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESIDENCY
* Established in 1976 at Methodist Hospital of Indiana
* Became a part of The IU School of Medicine in 1999
* Expanded to a two campus system in 2000/2001
- R 1-3 Format: 17 residents per year
- Two campus system each with 100,000+ census
- Combined program in Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine: - 2 residents per year
- "Full ongoing accreditation" status by the Residency Review Committee for the past 5 site surveys.
- "Full ongoing accreditation" status granted in the year 2005 for 5 full years.
© 2003, Department
of Emergency Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana