ACEP History
ACEP was founded in 1968 by a group of physicians who shared a commitment to improving the quality of emergency care. The organization set out to educate and train physicians in emergency medicine to provide quality emergency care in the nation’s hospitals. In 1979, emergency medicine was officially recognized as a medical specialty, a milestone for ACEP and its members. Board certification granting organizations soon followed, and in 1980 the first certification exam was given. In 2000, ACEP changed its governing documents to make active or full-voting membership available only to residency-trained and board-certified emergency physicians, a change that remains controversial. The organization today counts approximately 28,000 of the country's 60,000 emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents and medical students as members. ACEP exists to promote quality emergency care and to that end provides support and services such as:
•The development of evidence-based clinical policies
•Funding emergency medicine research
•Providing public education on emergency care and disaster preparedness
•Legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts
•Providing continuing medical education (CME) in the form of educational conferences, textbooks, internet-based training, professional references and periodicals
•Publishing Annals of Emergency Medicine, a specialty peer-reviewed scientific journal
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