Did You Know?

ACEP has a clear policy that prevents employers of any structure from allowing revenue to impact clinical decision-making.

ACEP policy prevents employers from implementing practices that undermine emergency physician autonomy.

Oregon ACEP successfully advocated for SB 951 to keep corporate interests out of medicine and protect physician-led care.

South Carolina ACEP led the charge on a new law requiring a physician to be on-site in every hospital ED, prioritizing patient safety.

Recent workforce projections show that jobs in emergency medicine are growing, making it a strong career choice for aspiring physicians.

2025 match results showed record interest in emergency medicine and improvement in the quality of candidates that the specialty attracts.

ACEP has nearly 40 active committees with a focus on your career development, professional well-being, and leadership.

ACEP’s Young Physicians Section provides networking and leadership opportunities to nearly 19,000 early careerists.

The average age of an ACEP Member is 41 years old. Our community is driven by early- and mid-career physicians bringing fresh ideas, frontline experience, and energy to shape the future of emergency medicine.

ACEP is a representative democracy where every member's voice can influence actions and policy via our Council process.

Any ACEP member can submit resolutions to the Council, so you can directly propose new policies and changes that matter most to you.

ACEP has local and national leaders at all career levels - it is never too early to get involved and help shape emergency medicine.

Over 1,000 diverse emergency physician volunteers have worked with ACEP to lead the College’s activities and messaging in 2025.

With 53 local chapters and over 50 sections and member interest groups, ACEP can help you find and connect to other EPs.

ACEP and chapter leaders visited over 110 residency programs this year. Want us to visit yours?

ACEP members have access to a professional online community to ask questions of their peers and ACEP 24/7/365.

ACEP’s advocacy team fights for your rights and for the specialty at the federal, state, and local levels.

ACEP is the only EM organization with a full-time dedicated staff in a Washington, D.C. office, fighting daily for protections for emergency physicians.

ACEP’s very own bill in Congress, the ABC-ED Act (H.R. 2936 / S.1974), could help to alleviate the ED boarding crisis and improve emergency care.

The advocacy team at ACEP is exposing insurer bad behaviors that are causing ED closures and employer consolidation, and putting patients at risk.

ACEP is the only emergency medicine organization that has a representative on the powerful RUC, which decides how much you get paid.

As a non-partisan organization, ACEP is taking a stand exclusively on issues that impact the practice of emergency medicine.

Six decades of ACEP advocacy have contributed to your ability to eat and drink on shift, get paid a fair wage, and provide critical care to the most vulnerable patients.

ACEP’s recent RAND report analyzed more than 50 million ED professional claims to expose sustainability issues in emergency care, showed the public and lawmakers that ED acuity, length of stay, and left-without-being-seen rates are increasing exponentially, and showed that ED boarding is more costly to hospitals than moving patients to an inpatient bed or admission holding unit.

ACEP’s Emergency Medicine Data Institute is identifying best practices in quality improvement.

ACEP is leading emergency medicine in identifying safe and effective ways for AI to improve patient care.

ACEP’s new ED accreditation program is setting the standard to elevate the practice of emergency medicine.

Without ACEP, EM might not be a specialty.

Without ACEP, insurance cards wouldn’t be required by law to have the patient’s deductibles printed on them.

Without ACEP, patients might be afraid to seek emergency care because they might be retroactively denied.

Without ACEP, you wouldn’t be able to eat or drink on shift.

Without ACEP, specialist consultants could refuse to see patients.

Without ACEP, you wouldn’t have the option to use Ketamine for procedural sedation.