Updated April 27, 2017
Originally posted on March 30, 2017 

The American College of Emergency Physicians is pleased to announce a historic collaboration involving nearly every major emergency medicine organization: The Coalition to Oppose Medical Merit Badges.

"The Coalition finds no rational justification to require medical merit badges for board-certified emergency physicians who maintain their board certification. Our committed professional organizations provide the best opportunities for continuous professional development, and medical merit badges dismiss the quality of those educational efforts."

Coalition members include the following organizations:

• American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)
• American Academy of Emergency Medicine/Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA)
• American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)
• American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
• American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP)
• American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM)
• Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM)
• Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD)
• Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA)
• Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)

Read the entire letter here.