Emergency Medicine Residencies Actively Harming Our Specialty

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This specialty is starting to border on scam.

What specialty? Test, pills, and bill someone else?

The ER has turned into a failed experiment in socialism. The vast, vast majority are of some sort of government payment plan (IHS, Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare) and they use the ER for all sorts of nonsense. It's a rare patient (10%? 20%?) that requires any active role to improve their outcome.

PAs generally have a decent enough fund of knowledge to stumble through bread and butter cases. NPs these days often can't tell pneumonia from CHF 🙁
 
What specialty? Test, pills, and bill someone else?

The ER has turned into a failed experiment in socialism. The vast, vast majority are of some sort of government payment plan (IHS, Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare) and they use the ER for all sorts of nonsense. It's a rare patient (10%? 20%?) that requires any active role to improve their outcome.

PAs generally have a decent enough fund of knowledge to stumble through bread and butter cases. NPs these days often can't tell pneumonia from CHF 🙁

Quoted for truth. Especially the second part.
 

They must get actual emergencies there!
 
EM is no alone. HCA is running all hospital based specialties + Optho + Derm + Primary care. I would not be surprised if more hospital systems start their own programs. We could essentially have the majority of residencies run by hospitals/VC groups on the future.
 
Bayhealth’s residency program plans to expand - adding General Surgery and Emergency Medicine residency programs in the coming years.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for its Emergency Medicine residency program.

Future programs in the planning stages include psychiatry, emergency medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
 
Bayhealth’s residency program plans to expand - adding General Surgery and Emergency Medicine residency programs in the coming years.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for its Emergency Medicine residency program.

Future programs in the planning stages include psychiatry, emergency medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
All residencies are screwed
 
I really do not blame any hospital system opening up residencies. Its all an economics game and if you can get cheap/free labor x 3-7 years then why not.

If the ACGME/RRC allows it, these hospitals would be stupid not to open them.

If I had a company making widgets and the city was paying for a free intern program to put in the widgets, then I would be dumb to not take low cost/free labor. My widgets may not be done as well/fast but the consumer won't care.
 
I really do not blame any hospital system opening up residencies. Its all an economics game and if you can get cheap/free labor x 3-7 years then why not.

If the ACGME/RRC allows it, these hospitals would be stupid not to open them.

If I had a company making widgets and the city was paying for a free intern program to put in the widgets, then I would be dumb to not take low cost/free labor. My widgets may not be done as well/fast but the consumer won't care.
Isn't this the same as anti-trust? Just reversed.

Flooding the market to control salaries.
 
Isn't this the same as anti-trust? Just reversed.

Flooding the market to control salaries.

Regulators only care if your salary goes up. If it makes the price of your labor cheaper then they couldn't care less.
 
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