AAEM Publications

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) has joined eight other emergency medicine organizations in signing a joint letter to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), expressing concerns about proposed changes to the Common Program Requirements (CPRs) for residency training. While AAEM supports efforts to modernize graduate medical education, we believe these changes […]

AAEM believes that decisions about who is qualified to practice medicine in a hospital should be made through the appropriate medical staff processes, with physicians afforded the due process protections established in the medical staff bylaws. Those protections should not disappear simply because a hospital changes its emergency medicine staffing contract. We are particularly concerned […]

Landmark federal legislation takes aim at corporate control of medicine and reflects more than 30 years of AAEM advocacy for physician autonomy. MILWAUKEE, WI, September 16, 2026 — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) applauds the introduction of the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act of 2026, federal legislation aimed at addressing corporate influence […]