I am curious about the sort of opportunities emergency medicine specialists find outside the ER. I would imagine they're probably generally eligible for many posts in ambulatory urgent care... is this correct?
Of course there's the standard set of non-clinical roles any physician can look for in public health and policy, research, teaching and administration.
But I'm curious about EM-trained doctors bleeding into other clinical roles. Assume an EM-trained doctor isn't multiply boarded or eligible in FM or IM or something: to what extent can an EP look forward to moving on to work as a hospitalist? As a primary care physician, notionally a general practitioner, doing FM or IM sort of work work outside the hospital? In private practice in more focused niches, especially that might share something with emergency room practice... Pain medicine? Addiction medicine?
I understand demand for EM specialists in emergency rooms is high, and is likely to remain high as grandfathered specialists retire and more hospitals possibly move to phase out FMs and others and specialize their staffs in emerg. On the other hand, reforms to primary care overall could potentially reduce patient volumes coming in to the ER. And surely, at least some ER-qualified doctors eventually start looking at alternative forms and settings for practice, if only for personal, lifestyle reasons.
But I'm just an onlooker, and all I can do is make educated guesses from what sort of seems plausible. What other roles are EM-trained physicians actually taking out there, or would other posters here see them taking in the future?
Of course there's the standard set of non-clinical roles any physician can look for in public health and policy, research, teaching and administration.
But I'm curious about EM-trained doctors bleeding into other clinical roles. Assume an EM-trained doctor isn't multiply boarded or eligible in FM or IM or something: to what extent can an EP look forward to moving on to work as a hospitalist? As a primary care physician, notionally a general practitioner, doing FM or IM sort of work work outside the hospital? In private practice in more focused niches, especially that might share something with emergency room practice... Pain medicine? Addiction medicine?
I understand demand for EM specialists in emergency rooms is high, and is likely to remain high as grandfathered specialists retire and more hospitals possibly move to phase out FMs and others and specialize their staffs in emerg. On the other hand, reforms to primary care overall could potentially reduce patient volumes coming in to the ER. And surely, at least some ER-qualified doctors eventually start looking at alternative forms and settings for practice, if only for personal, lifestyle reasons.
But I'm just an onlooker, and all I can do is make educated guesses from what sort of seems plausible. What other roles are EM-trained physicians actually taking out there, or would other posters here see them taking in the future?
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