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American College
of Emergency Physicians: ACEP Online
The American College of Emergency Physicians' web site.
This web site offers innovative ways to communicate and
share information with ACEP members and those interested
in the activities of the College and the specialty. The
site is very extensive and provides news, downloads, PDF
viewable reports, a Member's Only area, everything you would
ever want to know about the structure and organization of
ACEP, a bookstore, events/conferences calendar and links
to other state chapters and international emergency medical
organizations.
ACEP
Expert Witness Statement
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Contact Your State Officials
Contact Congress
New Jersey State
Legislature Home Page
Track the status of bills using their online search. Even
if you don't know the bill number, you can search by sponsor,
committee, subject, etc. Bills can be viewed in PDF, Envoy
and HTML formats. Site also includes the legislative calendar.
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American College
of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians
The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians.
The ACOEP exists to support quality emergency medical care,
promote interests of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians, support
development and implementation of Osteopathic emergency
medical education, and advance the philosophy and practice
of osteopathic medicine through a system of quality and
cost effective health care in a distinct, unified profession.
National Emergency
Medicine Association
The National Emergency Medicine Association is a 501 (c)(3)
non-profit organization, founded in 1982, committed to trauma
prevention and the delivery of quality emergency medical
services at each stage of trauma with an emphasis on first
response at the time of the emergency. NEMA produces the
national radio show, The Heart of the Matter, as
well books, tapes, videos and other materials on a broad
range of health-related subjects.
American Academy of Emergency
Medicine
American Board of Emergency
Medicine
Society for Academic Emergency
Medicine
Emergency Medicine Residents'
Association
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Medical Society of New Jersey
Check their website for the latest news in public affairs
and government relations (updated the first week of every
month). The site includes a variety of topics including
membership, news, practice, legal and financial issues,
insurance and classified ads online. Also, online information
about their "New Jersey Medicine" magazine.
Go to www.msnj.org
for an update on the prompt payment legislation. The Governor
conditionally vetoed the bill, but it is expected to become
law soon. Check out the update on MSNJ’s web page for
more information.
The New Jersey State Society
of Physician Assistants
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The First Annual
Report on Hospital Performance by the Commissioner of the
NJ Department of Health and Senior Services
www.nj.gov/health/hpr
View individual hospital profiles, compare the performance
of various hospitals, or make comparisons by county and
region. The on-line version also provides a technical explanation
of the measures and methodology. To obtain a copy of the
report, access the
website or contact the Department’s Office of Health
Care Quality Assessment, Division of Health Care Quality
and Oversight, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
Services by mail at P.O. Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625-0360,
by phone at (800) 418-1397, or by fax at (609) 530-7478.
EMedHome.com
A free educational website for emergency physicians.
Emergency
Medicine Magazine
Articles in Emergency Medicine deal
with every acute problem encountered in emergency departments
and primary care, including trauma, heart attack, stroke,
gastrointestinal dysfunction, dermatologic disorders, serious
infections, and diseases of all kinds entering the acute
stage. Its clear, how-to style guides the reader through
diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of each disorder. Articles
focus on practical information the physician can immediately
incorporate into daily practice to heal a patient or save
a life. Often, using a case study format, articles recreate
the office visit, offering stepwise strategies for handling
acute problems. Chronic disorders are also addressed, with
emphasis on preventing the emergency.
Annals
of Emergency Medicine
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians,
accessible online to subscribers at the Elsevier
Science website.
Online CME
Looking for a new and easy way to earn CME? There are several
interesting CME sites available on the web that offer low-cost
or free CME activities. Pick your favorite search engine
and look up "Medical CME." You'll most likely
come up with a long list of sites to choose from, as online
CME is becoming more and more common.
Following are several sites we found that looked interesting
and easy to use:
Reprinted with permission from the Illinois College
of Emergency Physicians (ICEP)
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