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The Florida College
of Emergency Physicians (FCEP) and its parent organization,
the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
recognizes and supports the American Board of Emergency Medicine
(ABEM) as the sole American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
certifying body for emergency medicine. FCEP and ACEP
also recognize the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency
Medicine (AOBEM) as the certifying body in emergency medicine
under the jurisdiction of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
Finally, FCEP and ACEP recognize the American Board of
Pediatrics (ABP) as an ABMS body in pediatrics which provides a
certificate of added qualifications for pediatricians in the
subspecialty of pediatric emergency medicine.
FCEP and ACEP hold that any physician beginning
the practice of emergency medicine in the 21st Century should
have completed an ACGME or AOA approved residency in emergency
medicine.
The Florida College of Emergency Physicians and the
American College of Emergency Physicians does acknowledge
that there exists a non-ABMS and a non-AOA certifying body, the
Board of Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM) that may
allow emergency physicians who do not meet the training
requirements of ABEM or AOBEM to present themselves for
evaluation and testing in the clinical content of emergency
medicine and achieve certification based on specified criteria.
This FCEP and ACEP policy is not intended to pass
judgment on the work of BCEM.
FCEP and ACEP believe that the overall quality
of emergency care will be best promoted by uniform procedures
and standards for board certification in emergency medicine.
This uniformity is necessary to encourage consistency in
training and testing of physicians entering the specialty of
emergency medicine. Such uniformity will be promoted by FCEP
and ACEP basing its recognition of certifying bodies not
on independent criteria, but on the standards of a single
allopathic, and a single osteopathic, umbrella organization of
certifying bodies.
Therefore, both the Florida College of Emergency
Physicians and the American College of Emergency
Physicians do not support any legislative or regulatory
effort to recognize any non-ABMS and non-AOA certifying bodies
for physicians who began practice prior to December 31st, 1999,
and oppose recognition of any non-ABMS and non-AOA certifying
bodies for physicians who began practice on or after January
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