How do they match: Emergency Medicine Physicians

  • Communicate likely outcomes of medical diseases or traumatic conditions to patients or their representatives.
  • Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
  • Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
  • Identify factors that may affect patient management, such as age, gender, barriers to communication, and underlying disease.
  • Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.