How do they match: Emergency Medicine Physicians

  • Critical Care Intensivist
  • Critical Care Intensivist Physician
  • Critical Care Physician
  • Pulmonary Critical Care Physician
  • Urgent Care Physician
  • Wound Care Physician

  • Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.

  • Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
  • Consult and direct other medical personnel on patient care.
  • Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.

  • Confer with other professionals to plan patient care.
  • Supervise patient care personnel.