Emergency Medicine Associates history

Also in 1975, the Liaison Residency Endorsement Committee, the forerunner to the Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine (RRC/EM) was created.

In July 1978, the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) was established as an affiliate specialty board of the AOA. ACOEP's first Scientific Assembly was held in 1978.

SEA began in 1979 with five physicians providing services for one hospital and has grown to a group of over 50 providers serving three hospitals.

In 1982, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved special requirements for emergency medicine residency training programs.

The organization transports more than 9,000 critical patients a year and has flown over 120,000 missions since it began operations in 1984.

The practice track for AOBEM certification is also effectively closed at this point since it is restricted to those who began emergency medicine practice prior to 1986.

In 1988, after a well-publicized 10-year grace period, ABEM eliminated the practice track and began to require emergency medicine residency training to qualify for the ABEM certification exam.

Also in 1989, UAEMS and the Society for Teachers of Emergency Medicine (STEM) merged to become the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). The Council of Residency Directors (CORD) was formed later as a separate entity representing residency program directors and their assistants.

In 1990, Gregory Daniel, a general surgeon practicing emergency medicine in Buffalo, New York, filed suit against ABEM and other individuals and institutions in academic emergency medicine.

In 1992, under the alias "The Phoenix," James Keaney published The Rape of Emergency Medicine, which detailed corruption that negatively impacted patient care.

AAEM was established in 1993 to promote fair and equitable practice environments necessary to allow emergency physicians to deliver the highest quality of patient care.

Since 1994, the vast majority of EMS providers in the United States have been trained using a National Standard Curriculum developed by our faculty.

In 2010, there were 157 allopathic and 37 osteopathic emergency medicine residency programs, which collectively accept about 2,000 new residents each year.