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can you sit for the emergency medicine board exam without having gone through an emergency medicine residency?
EM boarded without emergency residency?
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You may be thinking of ABPS boards (http://www.abpsga.org/certification/emergency/eligibility.html) but this is not an accepted pathway to EM by the traditional EM societies nor does it give the same accreditation as ABEM. This certification is being fought by some of the EM societies to limit people calling themselves "board certified" when it is not in fact certified by the American Board of EM.
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Our dept chair of General Surgery was also boarded in Critical care so I figured that it might not always be necessary to do the residency necessarily before board certification...
In backwater areas (population less than or equal to 50,000) it is not uncommon for Family or Internal medicine doctors to staff ERs. So I was curious that if one were to do a residency in internal, work as a hospitalist, could they then also sit for ER boards if they were comfortable. In Bradford, PA (home of the world famous Zippo lighters), for example, there are a number of ER docs who are not even board certified in ER, and they all make over 200k for 10 - 15 days per month of work.
In backwater areas (population less than or equal to 50,000) it is not uncommon for Family or Internal medicine doctors to staff ERs. So I was curious that if one were to do a residency in internal, work as a hospitalist, could they then also sit for ER boards if they were comfortable. In Bradford, PA (home of the world famous Zippo lighters), for example, there are a number of ER docs who are not even board certified in ER, and they all make over 200k for 10 - 15 days per month of work.
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Ok, I really hate to be picky. But it's not "ER Medicine" it's Emergency Medicine. It's also not an ER, it's an Emergency Department (ED).
You can become board certified in critical care after completion of a surgical residency and a subsequent critical care fellowship - so that's not an unusual qualification at all. Many people go through ABIM (shorter pathway) but the American Board of Surgery also board certifies CC specialists.
You can become board certified in critical care after completion of a surgical residency and a subsequent critical care fellowship - so that's not an unusual qualification at all. Many people go through ABIM (shorter pathway) but the American Board of Surgery also board certifies CC specialists.
