Since 1970, advocates for the Emergency Medicine specialty.
Since 1970, advocates for the Emergency Medicine specialty.
We represent the Emergency Physicians and their teams who stand ready to care for any person, for any condition, 24/7/365.
Registration is open for our 2026 Annual Conference.
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VACEP leaders are working on reforms to reduce the burden on practitioners who are named in unfounded complaints to the Board of Medicine. This is a particularly major issue in emergency medicine, which sees hundreds of complaints annually.
Paige Darrow, DO, and Martin D. Klinkhammer, MD, from Eastern Virginia Medical School, review the September 2024 JAMA Network Open study on the diagnostic performance of TBI biomarkers. Here's their analysis.
Virginia emergency physicians face critical elections in 2025. Learn how new laws, key races, and VACEP’s advocacy efforts underscore the urgent need to support EMPAC-VA.
Physicians at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and VCU Health consider the October 2024 JAMA study on transfusion strategies in acute brain injury. Here's their review.
ATTEST TO ADVANCED PRACTICE COMPETENCIES
Virginia Nurse Practitioners can practice independently after three years of training and collaboration with a physician in the specialty in which they seek to treat patients. We encourage all emergency physicians to review our list of competencies and attest to any NP’s skills before signing off on autonomous practice in the ED. Get our letter and find our list of required competencies.
Ask VACEP is our confidential service for Virginia’s emergency physicians that taps into the collective minds of Virginia’s emergency medicine community for answers to clinical questions. Ask VACEP a question now.
We don’t email often, but when we do, it’s meaningful information meant for emergency physicians and providers to take action.