Academic Departments of Emergency Medicine in Medical Schools

Approved April 2011 

Reaffirmed by the ACEP Board of Directors September 2005 and April 2011

Originally approved as Board Motion BM 005 November 1974; approved as a policy statement March 1999 

ACEP believes each medical school should include an academic department of emergency medicine that will be responsible for educational programs in emergency medicine and that will be free-standing and equal in status to the other specialties of medicine.