The Case for Observation Medicine Education and Training in Emergency Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many hospitals have or will be opening an observation unit (OU), the majority managed by the emergency department (ED). Graduating emergency medicine (EM) residents will be expected to have the knowledge and skills necessary to appropriately identify and manage patients in this setting. Our objective is to examine the current state of observation medicine (OM) education and prevalence in EM training.

Methods

In a follow-up to the 2019 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) OM Interest Group meeting, we convened an expert panel of OM physicians who are members of both the SAEM OM Interest Group and the American College of Emergency Physicians Section of OM. The panel of six emergency physicians representing geographic diversity was formed. A structured lite

SUBMITTER: Pena ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011447 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature