Most people are aware the Emergency Department is a fast-paced environment where decisive judgments are made, and the uses of prescriptions are uncertain. Numerous institutions added a new team member to emergency medicine team. When thinking of emergency medicine, a pharmacist may not be the first medical professional to come to mind. As the structure and process of emergency medicine changes, so does the health care team. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists reported the sponsorship of the ASHP Patient-Care Impact Program. The program is a six months program, and is described as a clinical mentorship program for pharmacists working in emergency medicine. The Emergency Medicine Journal published an article denoting how highly doctors and registered nurses value emergency medicine pharmacists.

Highly rated schools like University of Maryland, Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins and more offer medical residency programs in emergency medicine. Emergency medicine continues to advance in technology in response to the need for heighten skills. Emergency medicine personnel work in state-of-the-art institutions planned to meet the needs of a busy, tertiary-care population. Emergency Department employ for the most part sophisticated technologic and restorative treatment modalities available in emergency medicine today. Included technologies are bedside ultra sonography, light-speed CT scanning, digital radiography, and advanced airway management systems. Medical residency programs in emergency medicine cover clinical and didactic knowledge in emergency and critical care medicine, emergency department and emergency medical services administration, toxicology, teaching techniques, sports medicine and principles of research and publication.


Several medical centers enjoy being a Level I Trauma Center voted by the American College of Surgery. Hospitals have added helipad with service provided by emergency medicine staff. Still other medical centers developed Pediatric Emergency Care and Acute Psychiatric Care programs in the emergency department. Other hospitals added Medical Readiness as part of emergency medicine. These schemes are unique because they are defined in the up-to-the-minute, all risk catastrophe era. The four defining areas of civilian medical readiness are residents risk evaluation, access to care, dynamic medical scheme and health care revitalization. The programs include coordinated military-civilian interface for a collaborative relationship.

Schools like Johns Hopkins provide unique disaster relief opportunities for their emergency medicine staff because of location. Part of a collaborative relationship with military, federal, and local government, the Division of Special Operations (DSO) was created at Johns Hopkins. The division created to oversee its law enforcement medical support program along with critical care transport services, air medical operations, special event medical support and telemedicine. Johns Hopkins agreed with the United States Secret Service to provide medical supervision and direction for all Secret Service Emergency Medical Service providers, advanced training for operational medical providers, and direct medical support for high-risk protective missions and National Special Security Events. The Department of Homeland Security granted Johns Hopkins the chance to support the Tactical Medical Program of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Residents have the opportunity to provide medical care at Olympics, and the UN General Assembly. The DSO has organized medical support for the Baltimore Marathon.

By: Lisa Simmons

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