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.
Each year, VACEP selects one or several early career emergency physicians to take part in our Leadership & Advocacy Fellowship. This one-year program pairs rising emergency physicians with a more senior attending, with the goal of taking on projects or experiencing the non-clinical parts of the job — like advocacy, education, and training. Meet our new Fellows.
Physicians at VCU Health and UVA Health consider a June 2024 study in the New England Journal of Medicine that looks at noninvasive ventilation for preoxygenation during emergency intubation. Here’s their review.
As VACEP seeks a legislative fix to resolving unfounded Board of Medicine complaints, we’ve compiled a handbook to walk physicians through the process of responding to such a complaint.
A delegation of 19 Virginia emergency physicians and support staff traveled to Washington for this week’s American College of Emergency Physicians Leadership & Advocacy Conference. Here’s what they did.
Physicians at VCU Health and Naval Center Portsmouth analyze a recent peer-reviewed clinical study on bloodstream infection in the ED from the Journal of Emergency Medicine’s December 2024 edition as part of our latest Evidence-Based Medicine Review Series.
Get the presentation from our Leadership Summit and learn how Riverside Health System cut ED boarding by nearly half and gained new ED efficiencies.
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.