Emergency medicine is not defined by location but may be practiced in a variety of settings including, but not limited to, hospital-based and freestanding emergency departments (EDs), urgent care clinics, observation medicine units, emergency medical response vehicles, at disaster sites, or via telehealth.
Emergency medicine encompasses planning, oversight, and medical direction for community emergency medical response, medical control, and disaster preparedness. Emergency medicine professionals provide valuable clinical, administrative, and leadership services to the emergency department and other sectors of the health care delivery system.
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The first day that residency programs can view applications within the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and send interview offers is both exciting and stressful. One of the authors (J.A.C.) recently went through this process, and after months of research and discussions with advisors and colleagues, J.A.C. applied to 31 US emergency medicine programs. J.A.C.'s examination scores, membership in the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and recommendation letters predicted an excellent chance to match into an emergency medicine program.1 One month out from that first day, with only 3 interview offers, J.A.C. had a 38% chance to match. All 3 of these programs truly interested J.A.C., but matching is a numbers game. Historically, 66% of residency interview offers are sent by this point.2 Increasing to 11-15 interviews would change J.A.C.'s chance to nearly 100%.1 The only recommendations from advisors were to apply to programs that didn't truly interest J.A.C. There are 2 issues with this process: more applications equate to higher costs, and applying to programs that aren't a good fit isn't ideal for either party. We propose that the US residency application system would be improved by application caps and preference signaling. 2ff7e9595c
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