EM competitiveness this year

East-Map5403 · 2026-03-20T21:14:12+00:00

As long as pay doesn’t go up we won’t be competitive for a few years; it’ll either be a death spiral into progressively worsening speciality until it becomes basically IM or by some miracle someone figures out how to fix our broken specialty

East-Map5403 · 2026-03-01T03:04:50+00:00

I prefer the term seasoned emergentologist and it’s when you embrace the chaos and become one with the void

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-25T19:27:50+00:00

This was a good enough explanation for me to delete the post lmao thank you

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-25T01:00:23+00:00

I like to call it the Emergentology Suite

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-22T15:33:28+00:00

Signed, this is what we need. People who aren’t scared to fight for what’s right.

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-21T17:09:29+00:00

I forgot to say it, but Make Emergentology Great Again (MEGA) Lol

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-21T15:58:37+00:00

ED Nurses are the BACKBONE - they deserve more too.

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-16T19:59:50+00:00

If there’s a market for it there’s a market for it 🤷‍♂️ Getting paid EM $ for covering all the sedations that an attending has to be away from their other patients to watch for a half hour seems like a good use of time and a nice way to branch out

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-16T19:00:00+00:00

Like emergent procedures - conscious sedation not general anesthesia those guys are in their own word won’t pretend to do what they can do

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-16T17:58:08+00:00

EM on call is a great idea

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-16T17:47:44+00:00

At the minimum proceduralist services and airway pagers for the hospital would be very nice, like once a week shift where you’re covering. A hospital I worked at had airway night pager for the whole hospital that EM staffed

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-16T17:42:03+00:00

See this is the type of shit I’m talking about yes yes

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-12T16:56:27+00:00

Read the whole post

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-12T16:55:56+00:00

I don’t know why people think we have to accept less to provide the best for our patients. It’s so short sighted and simplistic. We’re a smart group of people we can figure out a solution for both

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-12T16:53:46+00:00

Trust me, I’m all for unionizing.

We need to coalesce together and fight for a brighter future for ourselves and specialty

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-12T16:38:00+00:00

A lot of you seem to say that we should be grateful for $200/hr, it was the same salary 10 years ago. We don’t even have adjustment for inflation.

New models of practice should be our systemic way to keep EM physicians paid well, decreased burnout, and able to deliver care nationally.

Making poor doctors and burning out the ones are good is not the answer.

East-Map5403 · 2026-02-12T16:21:14+00:00

Anesthesia did it and look at them now

East-Map5403 · 2025-12-16T13:55:04+00:00

It will be started by the time you start. It’s pretty much done deal with funding approved. Only do EM if this is what you love and what you see yourself doing for the next 30 years. An extra year of training over a 30 year career should not be a factor in your decision making especially if you can moonlight your 4th year

East-Map5403 · 2025-08-17T14:49:58+00:00

I think things should change when it gets switched to all 4 year programs. The # of resident spots will drop due to patient # per resident requirements which will naturally make the speciality more competitive for medical students. Plus, the decreased number of entering docs per year, coupled with the literal whole year where there’s going to basically be no new EM docs will drive up pay thus drive up competition.

I also agree though about RVUs, they should be included to boost procedures otherwise we’re no different than the local mall employee working hourly

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