Graduating Residents

Train with passion and purpose while ACEP and EMRA work together on your behalf. EMRA’s popular publications and podcasts keep you up to date. ACEP’s career resources and advocacy work position you to pass the boards, find the right job, and successfully launch your emergency medicine career. When it’s time to level up from resident to attending, ACEP makes your life easier.

Learn about ACEP Resident Membership

The second you start looking for a job, ACEP’s lifelong support begins with the emCareers job board, a contract toolkit, financial resources, and negotiation tips. ACEP’s Open Book kicks your search up a notch. Developed with Ivy Clinicians, Open Book includes curated information on most EM employers and empowers you to make informed decisions, so your next job matches your values.

ACEP Open Book

What’s the RUC, and why should you care? The AMA’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee makes recommendations to CMS on how much money you should receive for patients that you treat. ACEP is the only emergency medicine organization with representation on the RUC. We use our seat at the table to ensure your reimbursement reflects your realities.

Reimbursement Details

PAs and NPS are valuable assets of a team. But ACEP firmly believes that every patient deserves to have their care provided or at least supervised by a board-certified emergency physician. ACEP spends a lot of time trying to educate legislators and the public on the difference in our training and the impact on quality of care, especially for our most vulnerable and most acute patients.

ACEP Scope of Practice Efforts

When physicians come together to advocate for themselves and their patients, they give a unified voice to the physician community they represent. Specialty organizations help to set guidelines for clinical care, ensure that those entering the field are appropriately trained and qualified, and hold key players in the industry accountable to the highest moral and ethical standards.

Advocacy at ACEP

ACEP is fighting for emergency physicians during the rapidly changing health care landscape. ACEP submitted a statement for the record following a bipartisan Congressional hearing in 2023. The statement, “Consolidation and Corporate Ownership in Health Care: Trends and Impacts on Access, Quality, and Costs,” shines a light on challenges facing emergency physicians. ACEP is working directly with the FTC on a solution to the corporatization of EM.

Corporate Practice of Medicine

When you join, you’re a member of two organizations, ACEP and your Chapter. ACEP has a Chapter in each state, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and Government Services. ACEP’s 40 Sections have something for every niche in EM, including pediatrics, sports medicine, health policy and more. Thirty ACEP Committees help drive ACEP policy and EM best practices. ACEP’s engagED community is your members-only place to chat with your EM friends.

ACEP’s annual conference is the world’s largest gathering of emergency physicians, but ACEP meetings feature much more than ACEP24 in Las Vegas this fall. ACEP’s Leadership and Advocacy Conference each Spring offers leadership training and face-to-face advocacy with lawmakers. ACEP’s new Accelerate meeting this March is four conferences in one. It covers pediatrics, reimbursement, emergency department director courses and medical educator training.

Learn about ACEP Meetings