Emergency Medicine and Beyond: Academic Emergency Physicians With Advanced Training

With an ever-widening range of career opportunities, many emergency physicians (EPs) in the U.S. are choosing to go beyond their residency education to obtain multiple board certifications, fellowship training, and advanced degrees. Since the birth of the specialty in the 1970s, > 40,000 physicians trained in emergency medicine (EM) residencies are practicing in the U.S.(1)